Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio

[Sa1eem]

Re: Pre-Election Deal and post election scenerio

@Aceones

PMLN-PPP alliance was gone in few months if you don’t know. except punjab govt where PPP decided to be clingy and stick to the perks as much as they could, despite no compulsion from their rivals to stay in govt.

and by the way, MQM is more like majboori or rather a liability of Pakistan, not PPP.

Yea sub Pakistani logon ko beywaqoof bananay kay liya tha. If PMLN left PPP, then why PPP let PMLN keep ruling Punjab, as they had option to ditch PMLN in Punjab and join PMLQ to rule Punjab. But no, deal was that PPP would let PMLN rule Punjab and that is what they did. Do you know strength of PMLN in Punjab parliament?

Here is numbers in Punjab parliament (2008 election):

Total = 297 seats
To make government, party needed 148 members in Punjab assembly.

PMLN = 114

PPP = 82
PMLQ = 62

(PPP + PMLQ) = 144 (4 short of number required to make government in Punjab)

Ind = 34
MMA = 2
PMLF = 2
PMLZ = 1

With law that if any member does not tows the line of party leader then that member loses assembly seat, PPP with power in centre, it would have been no problem for PPP to form government in Punjab if they wanted to. They only had to ask PMLQ to support them, and that is all. If they had done that, PMLN (+ PPP) would have got out of power in Punjab and PPP + PMLQ would have got in.