In the Pakistan polls, Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League won 75 seats, while Bilawal Bhutto’s PPP came in third with 54 seats.
Islamabad:
Senior leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party announced that after several days of intense negotiations, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party finally reached an agreement to form a new coalition government.
At a joint press conference on Tuesday night, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari announced that 72-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chairman Shehbaz ·Sharif will become Prime Minister in one time. again. Meanwhile, Asif Zardari, the 68-year-old co-chairman of the Popular Party, is expected to return as the country’s president.
“PPP and PML-N have reached the required numbers and 1708466428 We are capable of forming the government,” Bilawal told reporters.
He said candidates backed by former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party and the Sunni Ittehad Committee (SIC) failed to get a simple majority in parliament to form a government at the center.
Bilawal hopes the news of a political alliance with the Muslim League-Northern Alliance to form a coalition government will elicit a positive reaction from markets as the cash-strapped country faces a hung parliament after the February 8 elections.
Independent candidates won 93 National Assembly seats, most of them backed by 71-year-old Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party.
Speaking at the meeting, Sherbaz Sharif claimed that his Muslim League-Sharif faction now had the PPP “required numbers” to form the next government, and he thanked the leadership of both parties for the talks. positive results.
The former prime minister stressed the unity between the two parties and noted that they were well-positioned to form a government in the centre, The Express Tribune reported.
PML-N won 75 seats, while the PPP came in third with 54 seats. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) also agreed to support them with its 17 seats.
To form a government, a party must win 133 of the 265 contested seats in the 266-member National Assembly, or lower house of parliament.
Meanwhile, in a post on X, 71-year-old Khan’s PTI slammed the newly formed PPP, PML-N alliance as “PDM 2.0” “PDM 2.0 = #MandateThieves”. The announcement of the alliance came a day after the latest round of talks between the top leaders of the two parties ended inconclusively on Monday as the two sides failed to agree on a power-sharing formula to form a coalition government.
Sherbaz Sharif, who will serve as Prime Minister from 2022 to 2023, said that the new government’s path forward will not be smooth sailing and will be full of many difficulties and obstacles. He insisted the alliance would work together to resolve the issues, Dawn reported.
Zardari, co-chairman of the PPP and president from 2008 to 2013, said the political alliance’s fight to win the next government was for the sake of the country and future generations.
The February 8 election has been controversial, with serious allegations of widespread manipulation of the results.
Aleema Khan, Imran Khan’s sister, said the PTI chief had called the February 8 election the “mother of all manipulations”.
Aleema met Imran Khan at Adiala jail on Tuesday. She told reporters that the people’s mandate had been “stolen” after the election. She also said Imran Khan had strongly condemned the suspension of internet services, which he claimed was done to “hide the true consequences”.
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