Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari will be the new President of Pakistan. He will become the President of Pakistan for the second time as part of the alliance between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and the PPP.
Geo News reported this information in a report on Wednesday (14 February).
According to reports, PML(N) and PPP have already reached a consensus to form a coalition government. As part of that consensus, Asif Ali Zardari, father of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was nominated as the President of Pakistan.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's father Asif Ali Zardari is becoming the President of Pakistan for the second time. Before that, he was the president from 2008 to 2013.
The report also said that apart from PPP-PML(N), there are four other political parties in this new coalition government. These are Muttahida Qaumi Movement Party (MQMP), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PMLQ), Easteqaam-e Pakistan Party (IPP) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).
Top leaders of six political parties held a meeting at PMLQ Chairman Chowdhury Sujat Hasan's residence on Wednesday. In a press conference after the meeting, they said that six political parties have reached a consensus to form a coalition government and Asif Ali Zardari is the new president of Pakistan.
The 16th Parliament election was held in Pakistan on February 8. But the total number of seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan is 266. Out of these constituencies, 265 constituencies have been elected.
If a party or coalition wants to form the government, then that party or coalition must win at least 133 seats in the National Assembly. But after the results of the 8th poll, it was seen that no party got the required majority to form the government.
In this situation, six political parties reached a consensus after 5 consecutive days of uncertainty surrounding the question of which party is going to form the government and who will be the Prime Minister of that government. Incidentally, during the time of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, all the other 5 parties except MQMP were part of a political alliance called Pakistan Democratic Movement or PDM.