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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) is likely to join the federal cabinet in the second cabinet despite its public stance that it only supports Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate for the first prime ministerial position, sources said. Geographic news On Wednesday.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday announced that he would support the PML-N in forming the government without being part of the federal cabinet.
Addressing a press conference after the conclusion of the two-day PPP Central Executive Committee, Bilawal said the party would be willing to support issue by issue and in the case of important votes for the prime ministerial candidate. of Pakistan, to ensure that a government is formed and political stability is restored.
“The PPP has decided that while we are not in a position to join the federal government, nor will we be interested in taking over ministries with that structure, we also do not want to see political chaos in the country. “We don’t want to see a perpetual crisis in the country,” he said.
An inside story from the party chiefs' meeting on PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain suggested that PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif informed allies that he was nominated for the prime minister's post before the PML-N will publicly announce the decision.
Announcing the six-party alliance for the next coalition government at a press conference, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said it had been decided to form the government together.
The party chiefs included Shujaat Hussain, Shehbaz, Asif Zardari, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Aleem Khan, Senate President and BAP representative Sadiq Sanjrani.
Soon after the press conference ended, PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb announced on social media platform Maryam Nawaz for the post of Punjab Chief Minister.
Before the announcement of Shehbaz's nomination for the prime minister's post, the PML-N president told his allies that he had been nominated for the coveted post and said he would make the decision public if his allies agreed to vote for him in the Assembly. National.
Sources said heads of all parties assured Shehbaz that they would vote for him in the prime ministerial election.
The coalition partners of the incoming government would form committees to decide its inclusion in the federal cabinet and the PPP would not be part of the cabinet in the first phase, according to internal sources.
They said the PPP would join the federal cabinet in the second phase.
