Pakistani parliament elects prime minister
Pakistan's National Assembly elected as prime minister on Monday Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Monday, 24.03.2008.
15:41
Pakistan's National Assembly elected as prime minister on Monday Yousaf Raza Gilani. Gilani is a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party, Reuters says. His election comes five weeks after the party won a general election. Pakistani parliament elects prime minister In an immediate challenge to President Pervez Musharraf, Gilani said he would order the immediate release of judges Musharraf detained after he declared emergency rule in November. He also called on parliament to pass a resolution seeking a U.N. investigation into Bhutto's assassination on December 27 in a gun and bomb attack blamed on Islamist militants. Gilani won with 264 votes in the 342-seat lower house of parliament, the speaker told the assembly. The only other contender, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi of the Pakistan Muslim League that backs Musharraf, won 42 votes. The announcement triggered cheers and shouts of "Long Live Bhutto" from supporters in the visitors' gallery. Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was also in the gallery and was seen wiping away a tear. Bhutto party supporters also chanted "go Musharraf, go". "It is because of the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto that democracy is being restored. It is a historic event," Gilani told the assembly shortly after the announcement. Gilani, a vice chairman of Bhutto's party and a former National Assembly speaker, had been expected to win easily with the backing of his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and its coalition partners, including the party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif which came second in the February 18 polls. There had been speculation the PPP would nominate a stop-gap prime minister and Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, who now leads the party, would take over the post after entering parliament via a by-election. But party officials rejected such speculation, saying Gilani would be prime minister for a full five-year term. Musharraf is due swear in Gilani on Tuesday. He is expected to begin naming ministers to his cabinet this week. Musharraf has been politically isolated since the defeat of his allies in the election and there is speculation that his old foes forming a government will try to force him from power.
Pakistani parliament elects prime minister
In an immediate challenge to President Pervez Musharraf, Gilani said he would order the immediate release of judges Musharraf detained after he declared emergency rule in November.He also called on parliament to pass a resolution seeking a U.N. investigation into Bhutto's assassination on December 27 in a gun and bomb attack blamed on Islamist militants.
Gilani won with 264 votes in the 342-seat lower house of parliament, the speaker told the assembly. The only other contender, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi of the Pakistan Muslim League that backs Musharraf, won 42 votes.
The announcement triggered cheers and shouts of "Long Live Bhutto" from supporters in the visitors' gallery. Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was also in the gallery and was seen wiping away a tear.
Bhutto party supporters also chanted "go Musharraf, go".
"It is because of the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto that democracy is being restored. It is a historic event," Gilani told the assembly shortly after the announcement.
Gilani, a vice chairman of Bhutto's party and a former National Assembly speaker, had been expected to win easily with the backing of his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and its coalition partners, including the party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif which came second in the February 18 polls.
There had been speculation the PPP would nominate a stop-gap prime minister and Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, who now leads the party, would take over the post after entering parliament via a by-election.
But party officials rejected such speculation, saying Gilani would be prime minister for a full five-year term.
Musharraf is due swear in Gilani on Tuesday. He is expected to begin naming ministers to his cabinet this week.
Musharraf has been politically isolated since the defeat of his allies in the election and there is speculation that his old foes forming a government will try to force him from power.
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