Shehbaz Sharif to be Pakistani Prime Minister; Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto’s Party Form an Agreement
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PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari declared at a joint news conference that PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif will be taking up the prime ministership once more.
Following days of rigorous negotiations, leading party leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party have finally agreed to create a new coalition government.
At a joint press conference held late on Tuesday night, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif, 72, is scheduled to take on the position of prime minister once more, according to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Asif Zardari, 68, a co-chairman of the PPP, is expected to take over as the nation’s President again.
“The PPP and PML-N have achieved the required number, and [now] we are in a position to form the government,” Bilawal told the press.
He claimed that the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and candidates supported by former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party were unable to secure a simple majority in Parliament in order to form government in the Centre.
As the cash-strapped nation faced a hung Parliament following the February 8 elections, Bilawal believed that the news of the political alliance with the PML-N to form a coalition government would prompt a good response from the market.
Ninety-three National Assembly seats went to independent candidates, most of whom were supported by the 71-year-old Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.
Speaking at the event, Shehbaz Sharif praised the leaders of the two parties for the successful outcome of the negotiations and declared that his PML-N now has the “required numbers” with the PPP to be in a position to form the next government.
According to The Express Tribune newspaper, the former prime minister underlined the two parties’ unity and noted that they were in a strong position to form the government at the centre.
The PPP secured 54 seats, placing third, behind the PML-N’s 75 seats. Additionally, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) has promised to provide them its 17 seats of support.
In the 266-member National Assembly, or the lower house of parliament, a party must win 133 of the 265 contested seats in order to establish a government.
The newly formed PPP, PML-N alliance was referred to as “PDM 2.0” by the 71-year-old Khan’s PTI in a post on X.
“PDM 2.0 = #MandateThieves.”
The partnership was announced one day after the most recent round of negotiations between the two parties’ top leaders ended without a resolution on Monday because neither side could agree on a power-sharing arrangement necessary to create a coalition government.
The prime minister of India from 2022 to 2023, Shehbaz Sharif, predicted that the incoming administration would face numerous challenges and roadblocks on its path to power. He said that the coalition partnership will address them collectively, according to the Dawn daily.
Zardari, a co-chair of the PPP and a former president from 2008 to 2013, has stated that the nation and future generations are the reasons behind the political alliance’s battle to form the next administration.
There have been many credible claims of extensive election tampering to change the outcomes, making the general elections on February 8 controversial.
Aleema Khan, Imran Khan’s sister, claimed that the PTI leader referred to the February 8 elections as the “mother of all rigging.”
On Tuesday, Aleema saw Imran Khan in Adiala Jail. After the elections, she told reporters, the people’s mandate was “stolen.” She added that Imran Khan, who alleged the internet service outage was a ploy to “hide the real results,” had harshly denounced it.
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