Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif re-elected as Prime Minister

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Shehbaz Sharif was elected to his second term as Pakistan's 24th prime minister by parliament on February 8, three weeks after the national vote. teleSUR

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00:00 On Sunday, in Pakistan, Shabazz Sharif was voted as prime minister for a second term.

00:05 He ran as head of a sheikhi coalition that overshadowed followers of jailed opposition

00:09 leader Imran Khan.

00:11 Khan's party candidates secured more seats than any other party, but not enough to form

00:15 a government.

00:16 Sharif, 72 years old, first served as prime minister in 2022, heading a strikingly similar

00:22 alliance with After Imran Khan, a former cricket star.

00:25 Sharif got 201 votes by newly sworn-in lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly, over three

00:30 weeks after widely disputed and allegedly rigged national elections.

00:35 The Sharif family's Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party allied with their historical rivals,

00:41 as well as several smaller factions, to keep Khan's candidates out.

00:46 In return, the Pakistan People's Party, or PPP, a dynastic party ruled by the family

00:51 of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, has been promised the office of president for

00:56 Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari.

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