The Pakistan People’s Party announced
that its chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari would be its prime ministerial
candidate and his father Asif Ali Zardari the presidential nominee in the
general election scheduled to be held on February 8.
The announcement comes as the Pakistan
Muslim League-Nawaz (PMN-L) party had already announced that its chief and
former three-time premier Nawaz Sharif would be the nominee for the post of PM.
Though Pakistan is a multi-party
parliamentary democracy and the election of PM and President is indirect based
on the number of seats won by a party, the nomination of Prime Minister or President
helps the voters to decide with the knowledge who would be on the top of
decision making hierarchy after elections.
Addressing the media, PPP information
secretary Faisal Karim Kundi said that Bilawal will be the candidate for the
prime minister and “our wish will be that we replay 2008 and make Asif Zardari
the President”.
Asif Zardari, 68, who had become the
President of Pakistan after elections held in 2008, served in the post till
2013.
Bilawal, 35, served as the Minister of
Foreign Affairs from April 2022 to August 2023.
Kundi said the elections “should not be
delayed” beyond February 8 and that the PPP is “fully ready” for the elections.
PTI
