Summary The National Assembly will elect its Speaker and Deputy Speaker today.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The National Assembly will elect its Speaker and Deputy Speaker for the next five years in its session today (Monday). Eight candidates of different political parties are in the run for two slots of the National Assembly.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has nominated Ayaz Sadiq for the post of NA speaker, and Murtaza Jawed Abbasi for deputy speaker.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI’s) Shaharyar Afridi, Yusuf Talpur from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Iqbal Qadri from Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) also filed their papers for the speaker’s office.
All nomination papers for the two offices were submitted to the NA secretary by noon on Sunday. The NA secretary accepted papers of all the candidates.
The outgoing speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza will supervise the election. She will also administer oath to the newly-elected speaker.
The election of deputy speaker will be supervised by the newly-elected speaker.
Candidates vying for the slot of deputy speaker other than PML-N’s Abbasi include Ghulam Rasool Koreja of PPP, Munazza Hassan of PTI and Kishwar Zehra of MQM.
