Asif Ali Zardari becomes the President of Pakistan today after winning the presidential election. He secured 479 votes out of 702. His opponents, Retired Chief Justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui received 153 elctoral votes and Senator Mushahid Hussein received 43. Asif’s victory in three provinces is overwhelming, especially in Sindh where his opposing candidates couldn’t get a single vote. Only in Punjab Assembly Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqi is able to get more votes than Asif.
The vote by the two houses of parliament and four provincial assemblies forms the 1,170-member, but 702-vote, electoral college. According to a Dawn update:
‘Asif Ali Zardari secured 281 votes out of the 426 valid votes polled in the parliament,’ chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq said. He has secured 458 out of 702 electoral college votes, according to partial Election Commission results.
Asif Zardari is the 13th President of Pakistan. The ones who have been President before him include: Iskandar Mirza, Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Zia-ul-Haq, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Waseem Sajjad, Farooq Laghari, Waseem Sajjad, Rafiq Tarar and Pervaiz Musharraf. Waseem Sajjad has twice been the President of Pakistan.
GREAT!
Now the criteria/ moral bar for being the President of Pakistan has been set at an all time low. Any future Presidential candidate will just have to compare himself (or herself) with Zardari and turn out to be an angel to be elected.
Thank you Pakistan for electing Zardari as the President because now I can convincingly tell my grand children at a ripe old age of 90 years, ”God Forbid! If we have another President of Pakistan like Zardari!”
Let the infant political system work for a while to get the political garbage out of the system to hopefully produce better leaders in the future.
You are are next Nawaz Sharif!!
@meengla Democracy only works in those countries where literacy rate is more than 70%.
Lo bhai jo log bach gaye thay wo ab mar jayengy
Congrats to Pakistani nation! Another major step toward the transition to full democracy.
So our ‘democratically’ elected president will rob us of our remaining resources. Congrats Pakistanis!