Inaugural session of National Assembly today
The first session of newly-elected National Assembly (NA) will take place today (Saturday).
ISLAMABAD - Maiden session of newly-elected National Assembly (NA) will take place today (Saturday) with speaker Dr Fahmida Mirza in the chair.
As many as 333 newly elected NA members will take oath while Dr Fahmida Mirza will administer oath to them.
Election of new speaker and deputy speaker will be held on Monday while the house will elect Prime Minister (PM) on Wednesday.
PML-N President Mian Nawaz Sharif will make his entry into NA today as a member after a long period of about 13 years and 8 months and he will take the oath as PM for third term on June, 5 after having been elected as leader of the house. He will be the first PM of the country who will take oath of his office for the third term.
His government was dissolved on October, 12, 1999 and he was taken into custody. Later he was exiled to Saudi Arabia in 2000. He returned home in 2007 but he did not contest election in 2008. He participated in 2013 general elections and contested election for the seat of NA from two constituencies including Lahore and Sargodha and emerged victorious. His party has nominated him for the slot of Prime Minister.
Total number of members of NA runs into 342 while notification about the success of 333 members has been issued by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). These members will take their oath. Speaker NA will announce election schedule of new speaker and deputy speaker. Speaker Fahmida Mirza will quit office of speaker NA and newly-elected speaker and deputy speaker will take over their respective offices.
With the completion of election for speaker and deputy speaker, speaker will announce election schedule for new leader of the house. Nomination paper for the slot of prime minister will be filed with speaker NA on June, 4 and election for new leader of the house will take place on June, 5.
PML-N has nominated Mian Nawaz Sharif for the office of prime minister while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has nominated Makhdoom Javed Hashmi in this respect. No other party including PPP has nominated any one for premiership.
