Summary The Presidential election would be held through secret ballot.
ISLAMABAD (Online): Speaker National Assembly has summoned the joint session of the Parliament on 30th of this month at 10 a.m for the Presidential election.
Sindh’s former Governor Mamnoon Hussain has filed his nomination papers as candidate of the PML-N. Other major contenders for the office include Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed.
According to ECP, as many as 1,123 members of Senate, National Assembly and provincial assembles are eligible to cast their votes.
The election would be held through secret ballot. The ballot paper will contain the names in alphabetical order of all the candidates who have not withdrawn.
National Assembly‚ Senate and four provincial assemblies constitute electoral college for election of the President.
The 446 members of parliament have one vote each while Balochistan Assembly’s total strength of 65 is considered as a baseline for the other three PAs.
The winner, even if there are only two candidates in the run, will have to get 51% votes (354) of the total membership (706) of the Electoral College. In case of more than two candidates in the race, anybody bagging the largest number of votes would carry the day even if the votes of the two or more defeated candidates put together were more than the winner.
Balloting will be held on July 30 from 10am to 3pm at the Parliament House in Islamabad and at the buildings of four provincial assemblies.
