Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Sadiq Sanjrani as a candidate for Chairman Senate, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz said in a tweet on Thursday
Prime Minister Ìmrañ Khan has announced Sadiq Sanjrani for Senate Chairmanship
— Senator Shibli Faraz (@shiblifaraz) March 4, 2021 The elections for the Senate chairman would be held on March 12 after the completion of the incumbent's -Sadiq Sanjrani- tenure of three years
The announcement came a day after the hotly contested Senate elections in which Yousaf Raza Gilani, the joint candidate of opposition parties, was elected senator from Islamabad, by defeating Abdul Hafeez Shaikh of the ruling party, according to unofficial results
Gilani secured 169 votes while Shaikh received 164 ballots
Seven votes were rejected
Read more: PTI gets the lion’s share in Senate polls The ruling PTI dethroned its political arch-nemesis, the PML-N, as the single largest party in the upper house of parliament
This was what political pundits had predicted based on the governing party’s numerical strength in the four provincial assemblies
According to the unofficial results, the PTI won 18 seats, taking its total Senate seats to 25, followed by the PPP with eight seats
The Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) won 6; the PML-N bagged five and the JUI-F 3
The MQM-P and the ANP won two seats each, while the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and the PML-Quaid-e-Azam got 1 seat each
Two independents were also elected
| Date: | 09-Mar-2021 | Reference: | View Original Link |
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