Key Points
Shehbaz, 72, is locked in a one-on-one competition with Omar Ayub Khan of jailed former prime minister Imran Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who has been contesting from the platform of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC)...
His chances of winning a majority are slim as the party has already lost the Speaker and Deputy Speakers post The PML-N president Shehbaz is the younger brother of former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, 74, who sprang a surprise last month after being projected as the partys prime ministerial candidate ahead of the February 8 elections, marred by alleged vote rigging...
Nawaz Sharif, who returned to Pakistan from London in October last year to become Pakistans prime minister for a record fourth time, decided against contesting as his PML-N party failed to garner enough seats in the February 8 elections to form a government on its own...
The elections saw more than 90 independent candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khans PTI winning the maximum number of seats in the National Assembly...
However, in a post-poll alliance, the Mutahhida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have all backed the PML-Ns candidate, ensuring that Shehbaz Sharif will be smoothly elected as the 33rd prime minister..
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