Shehbaz Sharif elected Pakistan’s new PM

Pakistan’s newly formed government on Sunday elected its new Prime Minister following general elections on February 8.

Shehbaz Sharif, head of Pakistan’s Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and younger brother of former Premier Nawaz Sharif, was voted in for a second time.

“Shehbaz Sharif is declared Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan,” National Assembly Speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said in the chamber after the vote.

Sharif secured 201 votes in the 336-member National Assembly and returns to the position he held up until August, when parliament was dissolved and a caretaker government was put in place ahead of the elections.

Those figures would roughly equate to support from parties in his coalition plus some of the parliament’s unelected permanent members or potentially some political opponents. (DW)

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