LAHORE – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided not to support PakistanMuslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate Shehbaz Sharif in prime minister(PM) polls.
PPP leader Chaudhry Manzoor said that the decision not to back PML-N wastaken three days ago.
The party will also stay away from Speaker Punjab Assembly electionlinkit will neither vote for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate nor forPML-N‘s.
It is to be mentioned here that the newly-elected members of NationalAssembly (MNAs) will elect Prime Minister on Friday.
The winning party PTI has fielded its chief Imran Khan for this slotwhereas joint opposition provided name of PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif.
The candidates can submit the nomination papers by 02:00PM on Friday, whilescrutiny of the forms would be completed by 03:00PM on Thursday. Thenomination papers could be obtained from the National Assembly Secretariat.
Earlier, PTI Asad Qaiser was sworn in as 21st speaker for the NationalAssembly amid opposition‘s protest.
Qaiser bagged 176 votes while PPP’s Syed Khurshid Shah received 146 in thesecret balloting process. A total of 330 votes were cast among which eightwere rejected.