Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former National Assembly (NA) leader of the opposition Syed Khurshid Shah will be the grand opposition alliance’s joint candidate for the office of the NA speaker.
Shah’s nomination had been approved by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, according to PPP leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar.
The grand opposition alliance had decided at a multi-party conference (MPC) on Thursday to field joint candidates for the offices of prime minister, NA speaker and deputy speaker against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) nominees Briefing reporters about the decisions taken by the MPC, PPP leader Sherry Rehman said that her party would nominate its candidate for the office of speaker, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) for deputy speaker and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) would contest for the office of prime minister.
