Shehbaz Sharif was elected to his second term as Pakistan's 24th prime minister by parliament on February 8, three weeks after the national vote. teleSUR
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00:00 On Sunday, in Pakistan, Shabazz Sharif was voted as prime minister for a second term.
00:05 He ran as head of a sheikhi coalition that overshadowed followers of jailed opposition
00:09 leader Imran Khan.
00:11 Khan's party candidates secured more seats than any other party, but not enough to form
00:15 a government.
00:16 Sharif, 72 years old, first served as prime minister in 2022, heading a strikingly similar
00:22 alliance with After Imran Khan, a former cricket star.
00:25 Sharif got 201 votes by newly sworn-in lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly, over three
00:30 weeks after widely disputed and allegedly rigged national elections.
00:35 The Sharif family's Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party allied with their historical rivals,
00:41 as well as several smaller factions, to keep Khan's candidates out.
00:46 In return, the Pakistan People's Party, or PPP, a dynastic party ruled by the family
00:51 of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, has been promised the office of president for
00:56 Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari.