PML-N Senior Vice President and chief organiser Maryam Nawaz has been elected as the first woman chief minister of Punjab. She is also the first woman to hold this office in any of the provinces in the country's history.
The Punjab Assembly's session to elect the new leader of the House kicked off earlier in the day, with newly appointed Speaker Malik Ahmed Khan presiding over the session.
Maryam was elected with a huge majority of 220 votes as the opposition parties, led by the Sunni Ittehad Council, boycotted the proceedings. Hence, her competitor, SIC's Rana Aftab, could not bag a single vote.
On being asked by the speaker, Maryam then took the seat of the leader of the House, with the photograph of her late mother, Kulsoom Nawaz, placed at the front of the desk.
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