By Xinhua
Islamabad : Newly-elected Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani would take the vote of confidence on March 29, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported on Wednesday. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Tuesday submitted are solution with the National Assembly (NA) Secretariat for calling a NA session on March 29 wherein Gillani would take the vote of confidence.
Local newspaper Daily Times quoted PPP sources as saying that the first batch of the federal cabinet would take oath on March 29or 30.
Gillani was elected as Prime Minister at an NA session on Monday and he was sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday. Pakistani law requires newly-elected Prime Minister to take a vote of confidence within 60 days of the elections. Gillani is vice chairman of the PPP which emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly in general elections on Feb.18.