Islamabad:  PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the Pakistan’s 23^rd Prime Minister on Monday. He got174 votes in his favour out of 342, the Imran Khan’s party PTI MPs and the MNAs boycotted the election.

Before the voting, PTI MNAs had walked out of the Assembly with Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who was the party’s candidate for the Prime Minister post, announcing that they would be resigning en masse from the National Assembly.

PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq presided over the session after Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri said his conscience did not allow him to conduct the session. Announcing the results, Sadiq reminisced that he had also chaired the session during which PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif was elected as the Prime Minister. And today, I have the honour of chairing the session for Shehbaz Sharif’s election, he said.

Speaker Ayaz Sadiq announced in the house that Mian Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He also announced that Shehbaz secured 174 votes. As soon as Sadiq announced the results and said Shehbaz is the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, MPs began shouting slogans in favour of Shehbaz and Nawaz.

The Speaker asked Shehbaz to move to the seat of the Prime Minister in the House and he shifted to the treasury benches amid cheers, with other members of the former joint opposition following suit. Shehbaz said it is the first time in Pakistan’s history that a no-confidence motion against a Prime Minister has been successful. And good has prevailed over evil, he said.