No-confidence vote requires 120 votes from the total of 200. According to the GNC member Zainab Targhi, 126 members attended that particular session on Tuesday. When the no-confidence vote was tabled, she said, 13 female members withdrew from the session and left behind only 113 members.

Such an episode further disputed the no-confidence vote’s legitimacy and deepened the people’s distrust in the Congress and its members whose political infighting has driven the country into a chaotic situation.