PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has been elected the new National Assembly speaker after securing 199 votes out of a total of 291 votes cast.
After the counting of votes was complete, outgoing speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said that a total of 291 votes were cast, out of which one was “invalid” and the rest declared “valid”.
He then announced that Sadiq received 199 votes while his rival PTI-backed Amir Dogar got 91 votes.
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