Bypoll on cards after members of Imran Khan’s PTI resign en masse from national assembly
Shehbaz, 70, was the only candidate left in the race after former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout.
Pakistan National Assembly on Monday elected unopposed chief of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif as the new Prime Minister. He is expected to take oath as the 23rd PM of Pakistan tonight. Shehbaz was elected as new PM amid mass resignations by the members of Imran Khan’s party PTI from the national assembly who walk out during the session to the elect the new PM. Post en mass resignation by PTI members, the country is now seems to be moving towards bypolls.
Now that the regime in Pakistan has been changed and PTI members resigned from the national assembly, the country may witness by-elections to fill the vacant seats. However, during the course of the no-confidence vote, Imran Khan had been advocating for conducting the national elections to end the current political crisis.
