Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz President Shehbaz Sharif is set to become the leader of the opposition in the country’s 15th National Assembly as 111 lawmakers have nominated him for the position.
Speaker Asad Qaiser told the house yesterday that he had received Sharif’s nomination as the opposition leader, signed by 111 members from the opposition benches.
An official notification on the leader of the opposition will be issued tomorrow.
While the Pakistan Peoples Party had abstained from voting for Sharif for the office of prime minister, it appeared that some PPP lawmakers backed him as the opposition leader.
The PPP has a total of 54 members of the National Assembly (MNAs).
The total strength of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) in the house is 81, followed by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) with 15, and the Awami National Party with one.


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