Bilawal Bhutto says he rejected power-sharing formula offered by Nawaz Sharif’s party over prime minister’s post to respect people’s mandate

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has revealed that he said No to a power-sharing formula in which the prime ministers post would be shared between his and former premier Nawaz Sharifs parties, as he did not want to take up the top post without the peoples mandate...

However, in the February 8 elections, his party came third with 54 seats in the National Assembly, behind more than 90 seats won by independents backed by jailed prime minister Imran Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Nawaz Sharifs Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

The PPP and PML-N, who have formed a post-poll alliance, have failed to reach a consensus on a power-sharing formula despite several meetings between their top leadership...

Addressing a Yaum-i-Tashakur (Thanksgiving Day) rally in Thatta to celebrate the PPPs election victory in Sindh province, Bilawal said, I was told (by PML-N) that let us be the prime minister for three years and then you can take the premiership for the remaining two years...

Bilawal also said his father Asif Ali Zardari would be the PPPs candidate for president, insisting that the former president would play his role to defuse political tension...

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