Overview

• Afridi secured 90 votes in a show-of-hands session of the 145-member assembly after opposition lawmakers left the chamber.
• Governor Faisal Karim Kundi returned Ali Amin Gandapur’s resignation over signature discrepancies and summoned him for in-person verification on October 15.
• Opposition parties called the process unlawful because the resignation was not formally accepted, with the ANP refusing to participate and others failing to unite behind a single nominee.
• Constitutional experts warned that electing a new chief minister before the governor’s formal acceptance could be invalid and invite judicial review.
• The KP Assembly Secretariat cleared four candidates to run, but PTI’s numerical strength and Afridi’s first-term profile from PK-70 shaped a rapid handover pushed by the ruling bloc.