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Jamali wins vote of confidence
Islamabad, Dec 30: Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali comfortably won a vote of confidence today that assured the survival of his coalition government.
Islamabad, Dec 30: Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali comfortably won a vote of confidence today that assured the survival of his coalition government.
Jamali won 188 votes in the 342-seat national assembly. He needed only 172 to survive the confidence vote. According to the country's Constitution, the Prime Minister was required to hold a vote of confidence within 60 days of his election to the post. Legislators voted Jamali in as prime minister on November 23. At that time he won 172 of 309 votes cast in the national assembly.
General elections on October 10 failed to give any single party a clear majority.
Jamali's pro-military faction of the Pakistan Muslim League won the greatest number of seats with 103 members. The Pakistan People's Party, led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won 80 seats, followed by the United Action Forum, a grouping of Islamic parties, with 59. Smaller parties and independents together control the remaining 100 seats.
Jamali cobbled together a coalition government of independents and parliamentarians who broke ranks with their party. Jamali's Pakistan Muslim League has close ties to the military President Pervez Musharraf, whose soldiers seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
Bureau Report
Jamali won 188 votes in the 342-seat national assembly. He needed only 172 to survive the confidence vote. According to the country's Constitution, the Prime Minister was required to hold a vote of confidence within 60 days of his election to the post. Legislators voted Jamali in as prime minister on November 23. At that time he won 172 of 309 votes cast in the national assembly.
General elections on October 10 failed to give any single party a clear majority.
Jamali's pro-military faction of the Pakistan Muslim League won the greatest number of seats with 103 members. The Pakistan People's Party, led by former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won 80 seats, followed by the United Action Forum, a grouping of Islamic parties, with 59. Smaller parties and independents together control the remaining 100 seats.
Jamali cobbled together a coalition government of independents and parliamentarians who broke ranks with their party. Jamali's Pakistan Muslim League has close ties to the military President Pervez Musharraf, whose soldiers seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
Bureau Report