MNAs to take oath tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: As the elected members of the National Assembly will take oath on August 13 on Monday, the National Assembly will elect the new prime minister on August 17.

According to proposed schedule, following the oath of elected members of the National Assembly, the elections of the speaker National Assembly and deputy speaker will be held on August 15 and the nomination for these posts will be submitted to the speaker office on August 14. The election of speaker National Assembly will be conducted first and after his oath he will conduct the election of the deputy speaker.

According to the proposed schedule, deadline to submit the papers for the election of prime minister is 2:00pm on August 16, while the election of the PM will be held on August 17. After the PM’s election, President Mamnoon Hussain will take oath from him to complete the process of the formation of the government and transition of the power to elected civilian government.

It is to be mentioned here that outgoing Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq will announce the schedule for the election of speaker and deputy speaker after taking oath from the elected members of the National Assembly. The PTI has nominated Asad Qaiser for the coveted post of speaker National Assembly, while the Alliance for Free and Fair Elections comprising of the PPP and PML-N has nominated Syed Khursheed Shah for the post and Maulana Asadullah, son of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, for the post of deputy speaker. The PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif has been nominated by the PPP and PML-N as a candidate to challenge the PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the election of the prime minister.