LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Leader and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Hamza Shahbaz has directed the members of the ruling coalition to reach Lahore immediately and stay there.
Hamza Shahbaz presided over an informal consultative meeting of the PML-N Punjab wing and Provincial Ministers, while the meeting discussed the matter of possible decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC) in the case regarding the election and swearing in of the CM of Punjab.
According to party sources, the meeting reviewed the latest number game of the Punjab Assembly and the constitutional experts briefed on re-election of Leader of the House.
Experts said that no candidate will be able to win in the first round of polls for the post of CM and the victory will be decided on the basis of majority of the members present in the House during the second counting.
The current ruling coalition in the House has a majority of four votes at present, added the experts.
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In this regard the party sources further revealed that, Hamza Shahbaz has directed the members of the ruling coalition to reach Lahore immediately and stay there, till further notice. In addition, he also directed the members of the Punjab Assembly who had gone for election campaign in the by-election constituencies to return to Lahore.
Aside from that, Hamza Shahbaz has further convened a joint emergency meeting of the ruling coalition’s parliamentary party on Wednesday.
The meeting of the parliamentary party will be held at 12 noon in the CM’s House and it will consider the situation after the decision of the LHC.
