Asif Ali Zardari has been elected as the 14th President of Pakistan. Members of Pakistan’s National Assembly and provincial assemblies voted in the presidential election on Saturday, with Asif Ali Zardari winning.
Zardari is the first person to become the President of Pakistan for the second time. Before this, Asif Ali Zardari had held the post of President from 2008 to 2013.
Voting for the presidential election was held in Pakistan’s lower house (National Assembly), upper house (Senate) and four provincial assemblies and members exercised their franchise from 10 am to 4 pm.
Asif Zardari from the ruling coalition and Mahmood Khan Achakzai from the opposition were competing in the presidential election.
After the voting, ruling coalition candidate Asif Ali Zardari was elected president with an overwhelming majority, receiving 255 votes from the Parliament, while Sunni Union Council’s Mahmood Khan Achakzai managed to get 119 votes. One of the votes cast in Parliament was rejected.
In the Sindh Assembly, where Zardari’s party (PPP) is in power, he got the highest number of votes. At the same time, he received all the votes cast in the Balochistan Assembly.
He also defeated Achakzai in the Punjab Assembly. In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, where the Sunni Ittehad Council/Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party is in power, Achakzai received the highest number of votes against Zardari.
Businessman-turned-politician Zardari is the husband of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Zardari will replace current President Dr Arif Alvi, whose five-year term ended last year.
However, due to the new electoral college not being formed, he continued in this post. Achakzai, who heads his own Pashtunkhawa Milli Awami party, was contesting the election on the platform of the Sunni Ittehad Council, which came under discussion after independent candidates backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) joined it. Was staying in.