Mamnoon Hussain Elected As Pakistan President Tuesday July 30,2013

India-born Mamnoon Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawqaz Sharif, was elected as the 12 th President of Pakistan and will replace the incumbent, Asif Ali Zardari, in September following the July 30,2013 presidential election victory(Pakistan has so far had 11 Presidents, out of which five were military generals. Four of them illegally got powers through coups, whereas the first President, Major Sikandar Mirza was elected in 1956 after the first Constitution was adopted)

Mamnoon Hussain(73)a businessman-turned politician, will replace Asif Ali Zardari of the opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP), whose five-year term expires in September 2013

Legislators from both houses of the national parliament and four provincial assemblies voted on Tuesday in the two-man race for the largely ceremonial post as president

The only other candidate was retired Supreme Court judge Wajihuddin Ahmed, nominated by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the third largest party in parliament and led by cricket-turned politician Imran Khan

Votes Polled in the Presidential Election
Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G Ebrahim said Mamnoon Hussain received a total of 432 votes from the two houses of Parliament and the four provincial assemblies

Mamnoon Hussain required 263 votes to win, a target comfortably achieved with the 277 votes cast in the National Assembly and Senate

A total of 77 votes were polled in favour of Justice Retd Wajihuddin Ahmed, the competing candidate backed by the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI), while nine votes were declared invalid 

PPP‚ ANP and BNP Awami did not participate in the election in protest against the Supreme Court's decision of advancing the polling date from Aug 6,2013 to July 30,2013


About Mamnoon Hussain

• a former president of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI)
• A long-serving member of the ruling PML-N party, he briefly served as governor of the southern province Sindh under Sharif's last stint as prime minister in 1999