Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday said that his party will urge the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to change its nominee for premiership. The PPP chief and newly elected MNA was responding to media queries in the federal capital when one of the reporters asked if his party's parliamentarians will vote for PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif during the election of PM. "We will urge the PML-N to change its PM nominee," answered Bilawal.
An opposition alliance comprising PPP, PML-N, ANP, MMA and other parties on August 7 jointly nominated Shehbaz Sharif as their candidate for premiership. The opposition alliance named 'Alliance for Free and Fair Elections' had earlier decided to support a PML-N candidate for PM slot, a PPP nominee for speaker slot and MMA candidate for deputy speaker slot. The elections for speaker and deputy speaker were held on Wednesday wherein PTI's Asad Qaiser and Qasim Suri were elected as the speaker and deputy speaker respectively.
Asad Qaisar was contesting against PPP nominee Khursheed Shah. Qaiser received 176 votes whereas Shah got 146 votes. The opposition alliance voted for the PPP nominee as per plan.
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