Elections in Pakistan are likely to take place in November as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif suggests

After announcing that he would give over control to the caretaker government next month before the term of the assembly’s members expired, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif predicted that general elections will take place in the month of November. These statements were delivered by the Pakistani prime minister on Sunday during a speech at the Government College Women’s University in Sialkot.

The Dawn newspaper cited Shehbaz as stating, “Our government will leave before the completion of its tenure next month, and an interim government will come in.” He made a suggestion that his exiled brother Nawaz Sharif might run for office again. Shehbaz claimed that Nawaz Sharif would “make Pakistan great” if he were to win re-election.

If people gave Nawaz Sharif Sahib another chance to rule Pakistan, he would make it a progressive nation. By placing the nation on the road of development and prosperity, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the whole PML-N leadership will alter the course of the nation, the president said.

In order to guarantee that all political parties have an equal chance of winning, the Pakistani Constitution mandates that general elections be conducted under the supervision of an impartial caretaker administration. An agreement between the departing prime minister and the head of the opposition in the National Assembly results in the appointment of the caretaker prime minister.

The prime minister and the leader of the opposition must submit their names to a bipartisan committee within a certain amount of time if a candidate cannot be agreed upon. Should the committee also be unable to agree, the names are then sent to the Pakistani Election Commission, which chooses one of them to serve as interim prime minister.

When the newly elected prime minister takes the oath of office after the elections, the caretaker prime minister’s term as caretaker prime minister comes to an end. The caretaker prime minister’s identity is still up in the air as political parties hold talks to come to an agreement on the choice.

These comments come after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week granted a much-needed USD 3 billion bailout for the cash-strapped nation, a decision that probably prevented the government from missing debt obligations. Since taking office after Khan’s ouster in a vote of no-confidence in parliament in April 2022, Sharif has been attempting to resolve the economic situation.