Mamnoon Hussain l elected president of Pakistan

There were no surprises nor almost rivals The Parliament and the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan have elected new president of the Asian country to Mamnoon Hussain textile businessman , candidate of the conservative Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), which swept the elections on May 11. In the presidential election on Tuesday , the same thing happened in the parliamentary elections.Hussain has also been imposed by an overwhelming majority . It got 277 votes in the National Assembly against 34 of its only rival, Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, the candidate of the Movement for Justice of Pakistan (PTI) of former cricketer Imran Khan. The candidate for the formation of Benazir Bhutto-the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) - Raza Rabbani, has boycotted the elections, as announced that it would, to disagree with that forward the date of celebration. They were originally scheduled for August 6. But not even the boycott has eclipsed Hussain, who becomes the twelfth President of Pakistan and takes over from Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower, who retires from the front line and Pakistani politics. It is unknown what their future after the PPP's electoral defeat in May, which is considered partly responsible. Hussain is almost a complete stranger in politics , but not in commercial areas. Entrepreneur of the textile, is a prominent businessman in the southern province of Sindh, and became president of the chamber of commerce of Karachi, the capital of the province. Also, between June and October 1999, was governor of Sindh, but had to leave office by coup former dictator Pervez Musharraf. Then he stood by Nawaz Sharif and their fidelity view of many, has now made ​​the PML-N has boosted it to the Presidency. The candidate of the PML-N has also got the majority of votes in all the provincial assemblies, except in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northwest Pakistan, where the PTI has a majority.

The PPP and other formations have boycotted the elections to complain about the advance of the meeting. They were originally scheduled for August 6. Those opposition parties consider that the date change has prevented them from having time for campaigning. The PML-N requested advance the holding of elections to not coincide with the last day of the month of Ramadan, which is scheduled to end on August 10th-, and the Supreme Court supported the request.