2024-03-09T17:01:30+00:00
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/ Asif Ali Zardari, husband of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was elected on Saturday as President of Pakistan, for the second time after he held this honorary place between 2008 and 2013, in line with what the Electoral Fee reported.
Zardari obtained the help of 411 votes, in comparison with 181 votes obtained by the opposition candidate, throughout the vote of the Electoral School, which incorporates members of the 2 chambers of Parliament and the 4 regional councils.
His election as head of Pakistan was virtually determined, because it fell inside the framework of an settlement that got here to fruition following the legislative and regional elections that befell on February 8 and had been marred by accusations of fraud.
The Pakistan Individuals’s Social gathering, led by Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, reached an settlement with its historic opponent, the Muslim League in Pakistan, led by Shehbaz Sharif.
Accordingly, Sharif was elected on March 3 as Prime Minister, whereas Asif Ali Zardari (68 years outdated) promised to imagine the primary presidency.
Zardari was the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the primary lady within the trendy period to rule an Islamic state earlier than she was assassinated in 2007.
After her homicide, he returned from exile to imagine management of the Pakistan Individuals’s Social gathering, which gained the next legislative elections and was elected president by Parliament in September 2008.