ISLAMABAD, 30 October 2021, (TON): Former provincial assembly speaker Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo was elected unopposed as the new Balochistan chief minister on Friday, days after Jam Kamal Khan Alyani resigned from the position.

Of the 64 members who were eligible to vote in the election, 39 voted for Bizenjo, six more than the minimum needed, while members of three political parties, as well as an independent MPA, did not cast their votes.

Thirty-eight votes were cast by members of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and its allies in the provincial government and one by a member from the opposition.

The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Balochistan National Party-Mengal and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and independently elected member Nawab Aslam Raisani did not participate in the election.

Acting speaker Sardar Babar Khan Musakhel presided over the session.

This will be the second time Bizenjo will serve as Balochistan's chief minister.

Bizenjo's election as the province's chief executive follows a months-long political crisis, which ended with the resignation of former chief minister Alyani.