He also defeated Mahmood Khan Achakzai in the Punjab Assembly.
Islamabad:
Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was elected as Pakistan’s 14th president on Saturday, becoming head of state for the second time.
Zardari, 68, is the joint candidate of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), while his opponent Mahmood Khan Achakzai, 75, Mahmood Khan Achakzai) is the candidate of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
He received 255 votes in the National Assembly and Senate, compared to 119 for his opponent.
The new president is elected by the newly elected members of the National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies in accordance with the electoral college provisions of the constitution.
He received the most votes in the Sindh Assembly, where Zardari’s PPP is at the helm, while he also swept the Balochistan Assembly, taking all votes cast in the province.
He also defeated Achakzai in the Punjab Assembly.
Achakzai received the most votes against Zardari in the SIC/PTI-ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly.
Zardari is a businessman-turned-politician and the husband of slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Zardari will succeed current Dr Arif Alvi, whose five-year term ended last year. However, since the new Electoral College has not yet been formed, he continues.
Zardari, who served as president from 2008 to 2013, will also become the first civilian to be elected president for a second time. He is expected to be sworn in on Sunday.
Achakzai is the leader of his Pakhtunkhwa People’s Party (PkMAP) and campaigned on the platform of the Sunni Ittehad Committee (SIC), which was founded after the jailed former prime minister He rose to prominence after an independent candidate backed by Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party joined the party. it.
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