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Asif Ali Zardari Elected as Pakistan's President for Second Term
Asif Ali Zardari Elected as Pakistan's President for Second Term
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chair and former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as the new president of Pakistan... 10.03.2024, Sputnik Africa
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Ali Zardari was the sole candidate of Pakistan's ruling coalition, which includes his son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's PPP, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, as well as the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party and the Balochistan Awami Party. He defeated opposition candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who was backed by former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. Achakzai received only 181 votes and a majority in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly.On March 4, Shehbaz Sharif, the leader of the PML-N party, took the oath to serve his second term as Pakistan's prime minister at the presidential residence in Islamabad. His candidacy obtained 201 votes, while his opponent, the secretary general of Imran Khan's PTI party, Omar Ayub Khan, received only 92 votes.Ali Zardari's first term lasted from 2008 to 2013 and ended on September 8, after the former president refused to participate in the next election due to the PPP's defeat in the general election at the time.
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Asif Ali Zardari Elected as Pakistan's President for Second Term
NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chair and former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as the new president of Pakistan for the second time after gaining 411 votes in the national parliament and all four provincial assemblies. The presidential election took place on Saturday.
Ali Zardari was the sole candidate of
Pakistan's ruling coalition, which includes his son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's PPP, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, as well as the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party and the Balochistan Awami Party.
He defeated opposition candidate Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who was backed by former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. Achakzai received only 181 votes and a majority in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly.
On March 4, Shehbaz Sharif, the leader of the PML-N party,
took the oath to serve his second term as Pakistan's prime minister at the presidential residence in Islamabad. His candidacy obtained 201 votes, while his opponent, the secretary general of Imran Khan's PTI party, Omar Ayub Khan, received only 92 votes.
Ali Zardari's first term lasted from 2008 to 2013 and ended on September 8, after the former president refused to participate in the next election due to the PPP's defeat in the general election at the time.
