" I do not agree with the idea that a technocrat could perform well than an elected representative as he lacks popular vision," she said in an interview published in the latest issue of her party magazine "Sada-e-Awam (The Peoples Voice)".
She said: " The country can progress only under an elected and democratic leadership that realises the problems faced by the masses and brings stability to the internal system by addressing such issues.
To a question as to why President General Pervez Musharraf chose Shaukat Aziz for the slot of Prime Minister, she viewed that President Musharraf's rule had so weakened owing to absence of a political system in the country that he feared an end of his government by December.
Another factor, Benazir added, was that Musharraf wanted to satisfy the world forces that he still followed the agenda of moderation.
On the reasons behind removal of former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, she contended that it was because Jamali attempted to exert pressure on secretary general of National Security Council, a 22-grade bureaucrat, but unfortunately failed as there is no say of public representatives in the NSC in the presence of military people.
The PPP Chairperson viewed that present set up in the country could not last longer and all that would come to an end by December this year.
"War against the terror was the only basis for the continued existence of present set up that is why such conditions have been developed at the borders and inside the country. The rulers are pursuing dual policies as on the one hand they give impression as if they were opposed to religious extremism while on the other religious organisations are being provided political stage to blackmail the world and receive billions of dollars in the name of operation," she contended.
To a query, the PPP chairperson said the so-called PPP-Patriots had launched campaign in favour of General Musharraf because they were turncoats and would become political orphans with the end of Musharraf's rule.
She dispelled the impression that her jailed spouse Asif Ali Zardari wanted to leave the country to defend himself and said in fact the government had planned to take Zardari in a private plane out of the country without any passport and leave him another country so that he could seek political asylum under compulsion.