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2018-08-19 India-Pakistan
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Shahbaz set to become opposition leader in National Assembly
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[DAWN] Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz President Shahbaz Sharif
 ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
is set to become the leader of the opposition in the country’s 15th National Assembly as 111 MNAs have nominated him for the slot.
Speaker Asad Qaiser told the house on Friday that he had received Mr Sharif’s nomination as the opposition leader signed by 111 members from the opposition benches.
The leader of the opposition will be notified on Monday.
While the Pakistain Peoples Party had abstained from voting for Shahbaz Sharif for the office of prime minister, it appeared that some PPP politicians had also recommended Mr Sharif as the opposition leader.
The PPP has a total of 43 MNAs.
The total strength of the PML-N in the house is 82 followed by the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (15) and the Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
(one).
The collective number of the three opposition parties is 98 and the support of 111 politicians to Mr Sharif indicated that some PPP members also supported his candidature for the slot of the leader of the opposition.
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