The PTI has fielded former speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Asad Qaiser for the post of Speaker and Qasim Suri for his deputy.
Joint opposition parties have nominated Syed Khursheed Shah of the PPP for the Speaker and Asad Rehman of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) for the Deputy Speaker.
The nomination papers of all the four candidates have been accepted.
After the election, Sadiq will hand over the control of the house to his successor.
PTI senior vice president Shah Mahmood Qureshi told media that their candidates will easily win the majority votes.
"We will get the required number of votes in the house as our coalition partners are with us," he said, adding that the joint opposition alliance would soon fizzle out as cracks have begun appearing in their ranks.
He was referring to PPP expressing reservation over nomination of Shehbaz Sharif as the joint candidate of the opposition for the post of prime minister.
The PML-N, the PPP and the MMA forged an alliance after elections and decided to field joint candidates for the posts of Prime Minister, Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
They agreed that the Prime Minister candidate will be from the PML-N, Speaker from the PPP and Deputy Speaker from the MMA.
However, PPP's Khursheed Shah said that his party has "serious reservations" over Shehbaz's nomination due to his past controversial statements against their leadership.
On Monday, the Speaker announced that elections of the new Speaker and his deputy will be held on August 15.
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