ISLAMABAD, March 12: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Wednesday that the newly elected assembly could complete its five-year term only if it sincerely worked for national reconciliation, maintained good working relationship with the president and respected all state institutions.

Talking to a group of journalists at his residence here, he said that Nawaz Sharif’s ‘stubbornness’, could create a situation of confrontation between parliament and the superior judiciary which would be disastrous for the democratic system. He said that the PPP had received people’s mandate but the PML-N had won more seats than it deserve because of ‘some other reasons’ which he did not specify.

Responding to a query, he said PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was moving cleverly and carefully while the PML-N chief had vested interests which could harm the system.He said: “Our party will play a positive role of the opposition and we will not allow anyone to sabotage the democratic system.”

Meanwhile, former Punjab chief minister and PML-Q parliamentary leader designate in the National Assembly Chaudhry Parvaiz Elahi held a meeting with President Musharraf at his camp office in Rawalpindi.

On Tuesday, Chaudhry Shujaat and Chaudhry Parvaiz Elahi had met the president to brief him on the party’s strategy in the National Assembly session.

They told him that in accordance with parliamentary traditions they would field candidates for the office of speaker and deputy speaker against the joint candidates of the PPP, PML-N and ANP.