Sherbaz Sharif will serve as Prime Minister of the coalition government from April 2022 to August 2023
Islamabad:
Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif mistakenly called himself the “leader of the opposition” during his victory speech in the National Assembly today.
Shehbaz Sharif, the unanimously recommended prime ministerial candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), received 201 votes among the 336 members of the House of Representatives. His challenger Omar Ayub Khan, from jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, scored just 92 points .
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In his victory speech, the 72-year-old Muslim League-Sharif president thanked his brother Nawaz Sharif and his allies for the trust they had reposed in him.
Later in his speech, he mistakenly referred to himself as the “leader of the opposition” and thanked party members.
“I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the members of my party who voted for me to be Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives,” he said.
Shehbaz Sharif will be sworn in tomorrow at the Presidential Palace Awan al-Sadr.
Previously, he served as Prime Minister of the coalition government from April 2022 to August 2023, before parliament was dissolved for elections.
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