Ali Amin Gandapur is the provincial president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – File: Photo
Peshawar: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has secured the necessary seats to form a government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the party’s provincial president, Ali Amin Gandapur, is expected to be the next chief minister.
The PTI has obtained a majority in the national and provincial assembly seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where candidates have been successful from Chitral, Abbottabad, Swat, Charsadda, Swabi, Nowshera, Mardan, Khyber, and Bannu.
To form a government in the province, 73 seats are required in the assembly, and according to unofficial and non-governmental results, the PTI’s supported 76 independent candidates have been successful.
The PTI has secured a majority and is in a position to form a government in the province without any coalition partners, which will be the third time they have achieved this, and Ali Amin Gandapur can become the third chief minister from Dera Ismail Khan. Previously, both Mufti Mahmood and Sardar Ayyaz Sadiq were also from Dera Ismail Khan.
Before this, the PTI formed a government in the province for the first time in 2013 and Pervez Khattak became the chief minister, after which Mahmood Khan was elected as the chief minister in 2018.
Ali Amin Gandapur became a minister for the first time in the provincial government and in 2018, he became part of the PTI’s federal cabinet.