Punjab Assembly session to elect new CM today

Lahore: Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Sardar Dost Muhammad Mazari has summoned the Punjab Assembly session at 7:30 this evening.

In this special session, the voting process for the election of a new Chief Minister will be held.

The session was originally scheduled for April 16. However, now the session will be held today.

The provincial assembly had to elect the new leader of the house, with PML-Q's PTI-backed Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and PML-N's Hamza Shehbaz, who had secured the support of the Jahangir Khan Tarin group, expected to go head to head in the race to become the next chief minister.

The election for the new provincial chief executive will take place after the resignation of Sardar Usman Buzdar was accepted by Prime Minister Imran Khan. 

To be elected as chief minister, a candidate needs at least 186 votes in the 371-member house. In the Punjab Assembly, the PTI has 183 lawmakers, PML-Q 10, PML-N 165, PPP seven, five are independent and one belongs to Rah-i-Haq.

According to the rules, if a candidate cannot get 186 votes, then re-polling will be held and on that, the candidates with the majority of the votes will become the Punjab Chief Minister.