Punjab Assembly to elect new CM tomorrow

• Voting will be held tomorrow at 3pm.
• PML-N's Hamza Shahbaz is likely to become new Punjab CM after securing Tareen group's support.
• Today's session began will a delay of over four hours.

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly will meet on Sunday to elect a new Leader of the House after Usman Buzdar resigned in favour of PML-Q’s Pervaiz Elahi.

During the session today, the election schedule was issued according to which voting for the chief ministership will be held tomorrow at 3pm.

According to details, the nomination papers for the election can be obtained from the provincial assembly secretariat till 5pm today (Saturday).

On Friday, Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar accepted the resignation of Usman Buzdar.

Earlier, the session today held to announce the election schedule began with a delay of over four hours.

It is pertinent to mention here that PML-N's Hamza Shahbaz has emerged as a strong candidate to secure the assembly's confidence after the support of the Jahangir Khan Tareen group following a meeting between the leaders of the two sides in London.

Current numbers in Punjab Assembly:

Government (198)

• PTI (183)
• PML-Q (10)
• PRHP (1)
• Independent (3)

Opposition (173)

• PML-N (165)
• PPP (7)
• Independent (1)

Total: 371

Election

Once the nomination papers for the chief minister's office are submitted and the scrutiny process concludes, the candidate who secures the votes of the majority of the total membership of the assembly will be declared the chief minister.

But if no candidate secures the votes of the majority in the first poll, the speaker shall conduct a second poll between the candidates who secure the two highest numbers of votes in the first poll.

The speaker shall then declare the candidate who secures the majority of votes of the members present as the chief minister.

In case during the second poll there is a tie, the speaker shall hold further polls between them until one of them secures the majority of votes of the members present and voting.