Re: PPP and PML-N to form coalition
a lot of core agendas such as restoration of judges, UN probe for BB's assassination, restoration of 73' constitution had been agreed in principle previously...
While NS ran the entire campaign on the promise of restoring judges, Zardari is fairly lukewarm about the issue. Since NS is not in control of the government, so, if they chose, this is an easy issue to back away from, for both parties.
I don't think NS has any objections to UN probe for BB's assassination so thats an easy one to agree on.
At this time, no one wants to or is sure that restoring or rewinding to the 1973 constitution is a wise idea. There have been some heavy-duty amendments made to the constitution in the intervening 35 years, that there is no way you can rewind that much. Some of the more controversial amendments by Mushy very likely are in play to be discarded.
The biggest issue will be how much of a confrontation they want right away to impeach/diselect Mushy. While on one hand it will seem like the completion of an electoral promise, immense confrontation at the start of a term will likely result in a lot of energy and political clout spent on seemingly unproductive issue, and people may claim that we sent you to parliament to solve people's problems and you are engaged in ego-centric confrontation. How Zardari and NS deal with this issue will be the most interesting.
The last issue is the possible defection by many PML-Q legislators, and most importantly what to do with MQM. We all know by now that MQM desperately wants to hang on to power, but they have no love for Nawaz Sharif. While NS has a clear stand against MQM (and PML-Q Chaudhries), Zardari has a lot more flexibility in dealing with this issue.