Following an inconclusive fifth meeting on Monday, the two parties’ Contact and Coordination Committees (CCCs) agreed to reconvene today, Tuesday, to finalize the power-sharing formula.
Asif Ali Zardari will serve as president once again, but Shehbaz Sharif, the former prime minister, is expected to be nominated to head a new coalition government established by several parties.
Additionally, the PML-N is said to have rejected the PPP’s request for the Senate chairmanship and the NA speakership.
According to reports, “no decision was made regarding NA speaker post; Senate chairman will be from PML-N.”
Both parties resolved on the chief minister and governor positions in Balochistan and reached an agreement on the formation of a government. “The PPP candidate will become the next chief minister of Balochistan, and the PML-N candidate will become the next governor,”
Additionally, sources claim that PML-N has declined to give the PPP the governorship of Punjab.
Pakistan’s political future is uncertain since, in the general elections held on February 8, none of the country’s main political parties—the PPP, the PML-N, or the independent candidates supported by the PTI—were able to win a simple majority in the National Assembly.
To win 169 seats in the 336-member lower house of parliament, political players were forming coalitions.
Throughout the process of announcing the results, independent candidates supported by the PTI maintained their advantage over conventional political parties in the general elections of 2024, particularly in the National and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assemblies.
PTI-backed independent candidates have secured 92 seats, based on the results that have been released thus far. With 79 seats, the PML-N is in second place, while the PPP has secured 54 seats.
IPP and BNP each won two seats, while the MQM-P got seventeen, JUI-F four, and PML-Q three.
Both the PPP and the PML-N established committees to determine the terms and conditions for the incoming federal administration after the general elections.
