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Pakistani lawmakers have elected the candidate for the ruling party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, as the country’s 12th president, state TV reports.\n<\/p>\n
Pakistani parliament members voted to elect Mamnoon Hussain as the country’s new president amid a boycott by main opposition parties on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n
The opposition Pakistan People’s Party and some other opposition parties boycotted the presidential election in protest against the change in the election date.\n<\/p>\n
The voting was carried out at the Parliament House in the capital Islamabad as well as at provincial assemblies in four provinces. Ballot counting started immediately after the voting ended.\n<\/p>\n
Hussain required 263 votes to win, a target his party was in a position to comfortably achieve.\n<\/p>\n
The only other candidate running in the election was retired Supreme Court judge, Wajihuddin Ahmed, nominated by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, led by former cricket star, Imran Khan.\n<\/p>\n
The vote marked an end to the five-year term of outgoing President Asif Ali Zardari whose party lost in May’s general elections.\n<\/p>\n
Mamnoon Hussain, a businessman from Karachi and a close ally of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had been considered certain to replace Zardari.\n<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s largely titular president is not elected by popular vote, but by lawmakers in the Senate, National Assembly and the assemblies of the four provinces.\n<\/p>\n
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