Former Minister of Labour and Tourism for the PPP/C, Manzoor Nadir was today elected Speaker of the 12th Parliament.
Nadir was nominated to the post by Prime Minister Mark Phillips and was seconded by Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Gail Teixeira. There were no other nominations for the post of Speaker and Nadir was therefore declared elected Speaker in the House where the PPP/C has a majority of 33.
Nadir then took the oath. Nadir was formerly the leader of The United Force and but later switched to the PPP/C.
Today’s session was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre because of COVID-19 restrictions.