PESHAWAR: Opposition Leader Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Dr. Ibadullah, has announced to go to court against the election of the Chief Minister Sohail Afridi.
The opposition leader KP said that we were thinking till yesterday that the resignation was accepted, so our candidates submitted the papers.
Dr. Ibadullah added that the Chief Minister election is unconstitutional, and the opposition will go to court against the election of the Chief Minister tomorrow.
Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sohail Afridi was elected the new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) despite the boycott from the opposition parties.
Sohail Afridi secured 90 votes, whereas Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Maulana Lutfur Rehman, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Sardar Shahjehan Yousaf, and Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Arbab Zarak Khan got no votes.
The total number of members in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly is 145, out of which 93 are government members and 52 are opposition members.
73 votes will be required to be elected as the Leader of the House.
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