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The deputy speaker rejects 10 votes from the PML-Q and proclaims Hamza the winner after he received 179 votes compared to Elahi"s 186.

Hamza Shehbaz received 178 votes, compared to Chaudhry Pervez Elahi"s 186, according to Dost Muhammad Mazari, the deputy speaker of the Punjab Assembly. He disregarded 10 votes from the PML-Q, citing a letter from the party"s leader, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, which prohibited MPAs from his party from voting for the PTI candidate.

Political scheming at the last minute caused a three-hour delay in the key session.

According to reports, all 10 PML-Q members of the Punjab Assembly disobeyed Chaudhry Shujaat"s orders and supported Pervaiz Elahi in the race for chief minister. The votes cast by the PML-Q MPs were not acknowledged by Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari.

Hamza Shehbaz received 179 ballots. The PML-Q earned 10 votes, while PTI received 176, according to the deputy speaker who also announced the results of the contest for the position of chief executive.

The deputy speaker read from the letter that Chaudhry Shujaat had sent and stated, "As party president of the PML-Q, I have instructed my provincial members to vote for Hamza Shehbaz."

The deputy speaker said that he had disregarded the votes of PML-Q legislators in accordance with the Supreme Court"s decision regarding Article 63-A"s defection clause.

Raja Basharat, the leader of the PTI, spoke on the floor of the house and disputed the deputy speaker"s decision, arguing that in his capacity as caretaker of the chamber, he could not disallow the legislators" votes.

"Chaudhary Shujaat is not permitted to stop members from casting their votes... He said that he lacked the power to prevent any member.

The deputy speaker, though, insisted that he was carrying out the Supreme Court"s directives and rejected the PTI leader"s protests.

Chaudhry Shujaat"s orders to the parliamentarians, according to Pervez Elahi, are meaningless in light of Article 63 of the Constitution, and only the legislative leader has the authority to give instructions to party members.