By IRNA
Islamabad : The party of Pakistan’s assassinated prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, on Sunday demanded convening of the National Assembly session to elect the next prime minister after its victory in the February’s 18 polls.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has agreed to form a government of national consensus with the opposition PML-N, led by another former PM, Nawaz Sharif.
Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP leader and Ms Bhutto’s widower, continued discussions with his party leaders for government formation.
A PPP spokesman demanded that the session of the National Assembly, lower house of the parliament be convened soon, giving opportunity to the majority party to elect the prime minister.
Farhatullah Babar also urged the President to invite majority leader to form government.
The coalition government is seen as a threat to President Pervez Musharraf, whose supporters faced defeat in the parliamentary elections.
No date has yet been fixed for the National Assembly’s first session and the Election Commission has yet to declare official results.
Although there is no formal announcement who will be the next prime minister, but reports said Makhdoom Amin Faheem is likely to be the next Prime Minister.
The PPP’s 87 seats in the election were the highest won by a single party, giving it about one third of the seats. The PML-N of Mr Sharif came second, with 67 seats.
Details of the coalition – agreed by Mr Zardari and Mr Sharif last week – have yet to be worked out.
The two parties have more than half of the new parliament’s seats and if they can form a grouping with a two-thirds majority, they could call for Mr Musharraf’s impeachment.
Mr Sharif has been deeply critical of the president and says he wants “to rid Pakistan of dictatorship forever”.
Mr Musharraf has said he will not resign or retire, but instead wishes to work towards stable democratic government in Pakistan.
Mr Musharraf seized power from then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a military coup in 1999 and was re-elected to the presidency in October in a parliamentary vote boycotted by the opposition as unconstitutional.