ISLAMABAD – Shehbaz Sharif has hit out at Asif Zardari over failure tofield joint candidate for the presidential election.
The former Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) vowed to make efforts to keep theopposition on same page in future.
“Unfortunately the opposition could not agree upon one presidentialcandidate,” he said.
Sharif also added that he tried well to field a joint single presidentialcandidate but it couldn’t be done so.
On the other hand, voting for presidential election started at 10am at NA,Senate and all the provincial assemblies and will continue till 4pm.
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Apart from PTI’s Alvi, the PPP’s Aitzaz Ahsan and Jamiat-e-Ulema (F) chiefMaulana Fazalur Rehman are also in the race. The joint Opposition was tofield a single candidate, however, no consensus had been reached on a jointOpposition nominee.
Pakistan’s President is elected indirectly through an electoral college,comprising the Senate, National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies– Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Every member of the National Assembly has one vote while the fourprovincial assemblies are assigned an equal weight with the smallest, theBalochistan Assembly, serving as the base.
