The queen is dead.....long live the king!
Unfortunately, the Pakistan People´s Party (PPP) continues in its old ways of being the party belonging to one family. With all due respect for its new chairman, Benazir Bhutto´s 19 year old son, he is not the best person for the job, period!
While parties remain subject to personal whim, democracy will suffer.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Pakistan's largest political party (PPP) has appointed Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of its slain leader Benazir Bhutto, as its new chairman.
The party has also decided to contest parliamentary elections, due on 8 January.
The first decision appears to be aimed at preventing internal divisions in the party, while the second is meant to take at high tide the sympathy wave for the PPP that has been caused by Ms Bhutto's assassination last Thursday.
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