*SLAMABAD: PPP President Asif Ali Zardari has turned down a PML-N’ssuggestion about the new Chairman Senate. *

*Nawaz Sharif has suggested that Raza Rabbani should be re-elected asChairman of the Senate.*

“Thank you very much, but I don’t want this,” said Zardari when asked by ajournalist about Nawaz Sharif’s support for the outgoing Senate’s chairman.

“I have discussed some names with Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who will share oursuggestions with his friends,” he said.

Zardari’s dismissal came shortly after Nawaz Sharif said that his party wasready to support Raza Rabbani if he was nominated by the PPP for theelection of Senate’s Chairman.

“We feel Raza Rabbani has been a good Senate’s chairman. And therefore, weare ready to support him,” he said. “But if it doesn’t happen, we willbring our own candidate,” he stated.

Sharif also questioned Zardari’s political tactics in the recently-heldSenate’s elections.

“Is this a democratic behavior what Zardari sahab has been doing? We arestill committed to the charter of democracy,” he said.

The former three-time premier, who was elected by the PML-N as their‘leader for life’ said that his party had always accepted the mandate ofother political forces.