*ISLAMABAD – PTI’s Asad Qaiser has been elected speaker of the NationalAssembly.*
*Total 330 votes were casted for the election of the speaker NationalAssembly but 322 were declared valid with 8 votes declared invalid.*
Former speaker Ayaz Sadiq announced the result and thanked the members ofthe last assembly. He praised the last assembly’s committees.
There were 330 votes cast of which 322 were valid. Qaiser obtained 176votes while the opposition’s Khursheed Shah obtained 146.
Qaiser took oath to the sound of PML-N members chanting slogans against himand PTI supporters shouting in his support. The PML-N members reiteratedtheir chants of *‘vote ko izzat do’. *His oath was administered by Sadiq.
PML-N leader Murtaza Javed Abbasi was allowed to speak right after Sadiqannounced the result and he said the mandate with which Qaiser was electedwas fake.
PML-N leaders gathered in front of the speaker’s dais and held posters ofNawaz Sharif aloft. PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah and the PTI’s Aamir Liaquatalso fought.
The votes were recounted after PPP leader Shazia Marri and Umar Ayub raisedobjections. They were some of the MNAs overseeing the vote count.