After Punjab, the first session of the Sindh Assembly has been convened on February 24 as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is all set to form the next government in the province for the record fourth consecutive time.
According to a notification issued by the Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori, the inaugural session of the provincial assembly will be held at 11am at the Sindh Assembly Building.
In the inaugural session, the newly-elected members will take their oath and then they will elect the House’s speaker under the assembly rules.
As per the rules, the outgoing speaker will preside over the sitting for the election of the new speaker.
In case of his absence, a person nominated by the provincial governor will head the sitting. Immediately after electing the speaker, the session will proceed to elect a deputy speaker.
After picking the speaker and the deputy speaker, the sitting will elect one of its members as the chief minister.
