Pakistan’s lawmakers have elected Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s president for the second time, Paralel.Az reports citing The Guardian.

Zardari is the widower of the assassinated former premier Benazir Bhutto and the father of the former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

Zardari secured 411 votes from national and provincial lawmakers. His opponent, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who is backed by the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, received 181 votes.