Lahore: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been elected unopposed as the President of Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML-N) again after 6 years.
After the resignation of the former president of the PML-N, Shehbaz Sharif. The election was held to elect a new president, in which 8 nomination papers of Nawaz Sharif were submitted for the post of party president. The separate nomination papers were also submitted from the four provinces of Nawaz Sharif.
Nawaz Sharif's nomination papers were also submitted from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Islamabad. PML-N President Sindh Bashir Memon, Amir Mukkam from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sardar Yaqub from Balochistan submitted Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers.
The time for submission of nomination papers for the party president candidate was from 10 am to 12 pm, the submitted nomination papers were scrutinized till 2 am.
Party Chief Election Commissioner Rana Sanaullah summoned the recommenders and endorsers and examined the papers of Nawaz Sharif.
Later, the papers for Nawaz Sharif's party president were approved and he was elected as the president of the PML-N unopposed.
The general council meeting of PML-N) will be held after some time in a private hotel in Lahore, in which the election of Nawaz Sharif as the president will be announced as a result of the inter-party election.
Former federal minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq will be elected as the general secretary of the party in the general council meeting.
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It should be noted that on July 28, 2017, Nawaz Sharif lost the Prime Ministership along with the party president after the Supreme Court's verdict in the Panama case.
