Yousuf Raza Gillani

Yousuf Raza Gillani is a politician in Pakistan and currently the Prime Minister of Pakistan. A prominent member of the PPP, who nominated Gillani or the PM position, he received an endorsement from the PML-N and other members of the new Pakistan Coalition Government. Gillani is a former aide of Benazir Bhutto and served as the speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly from 1993 to 1997. He was convicted of corruption charges at the conclusion of a highly controversial 2001 trial and served six years of his ten year sentence.

Shortly after he became Prime Minister of Pakistan on March 25, 2008. Yousuf Raza Gillani announced a program of policies and reforms he intended to implement in the first hundred days of his term. Some of these points included a 40 percent parliamentary budget cut, special accommodations for parliamentarians at airports to be removed, a moratorium on spending for the improvement of government buildings and residences, the framing of new freedom of information legislation, the establishment of an employment commission, the goal of building one million low income housing units annually and a lifting of bans on worker's and student's unions, among others.