PML-N to elect permanent party president today
Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) will be made permanent president of PML-N.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is all set to elect its permanent president today (Tuesday).
Sources told that Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) Shehbaz Sharif will be made permanent president of PML-N during a session of Central General Council in Islamabad.
Earlier on February 28, Central Working Committee of the ruling PML-N decided to elect Shehbaz Sharif as party’s acting president.
The important decision was taken a week after the Supreme Court ordered that ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party he founded, six months after the court disqualified him as the country’s leader over unreported income.
Sharif is also being tried by a separate anti-corruption court on other charges - proceedings ordered by the Supreme Court last July - and could face jail when that trial winds up as soon as next month.
February 21 order overturned a legal amendment by PML-N lawmakers allowing Sharif to remain party president despite being disqualified from public office by the Supreme Court for failing to declare monthly income of 10,000 Emirati dirham ($2,723) from a company owned by his son.
Sharif denies any wrongdoing and has said his family fortune was obtained legally.
Sharif’s party retains a majority in the National Assembly and has vowed it will be vindicated in elections held this year, in which his brother Shehbaz Sharif is likely to be the prime ministerial candidate.
