{"id":27080,"date":"2024-02-25T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T05:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=27080"},"modified":"2024-02-25T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T05:57:15","slug":"with-207-seats-six-party-alliance-short-of-two-thirds-majority-in-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/with-207-seats-six-party-alliance-short-of-two-thirds-majority-in-national-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"With 207 seats, six party alliance short of two-thirds majority in National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerted efforts, the recently formed six-party coalition was unable to secure a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and managed to achieve 207 numbers.<\/p>\n<p>During the recently held February 8 election, not a single party, including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), were able to secure a simple majority in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In this alliance, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P), Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML) and the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) included.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-assembly-pml-ns-malik-ahmad-khan-elected-as-speaker.html\">Punjab Assembly: PML-N&#8217;s Malik Ahmad Khan elected as speaker<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament requires the support of about 224 MNAs. 169 votes are the magic number to form a government in the 336-member house, and about 224 votes are needed for a two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n<p>With 108 members, the PML-N has become the largest political party in parliament after the addition of 20 reserved seats for women and four for minorities.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the PPP has gathered 68 members in the National Assembly, including 12 reserved seats for minorities and two for women, in addition to its 54 elected members.<\/p>\n<p>The combined strength of the PML-N and PPP MNAs equals 169, which is a critical number for government formation given that both parties have 168 members in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerted efforts, the recently formed six-party coalition was unable to secure a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly and managed to achieve 207 numbers. During the recently held February 8 election, not a single party, including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), were able to secure a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":27083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11511,9,21,2,147],"tags":[151,12400,12399],"class_list":["post-27080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-2024","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-national-assembly","tag-pdm-2-0","tag-pml-n-nationa-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}