LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaullah has said that three to four candidates of his party could get elected in Karachi in the upcoming general elections due to the alliance with Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P).
The development came after PML-N and MQM-P announced that they would be jointly contesting the February 8 elections. Regarding the matter, Sanaullah said a lot of things were yet to be decided but the MQM-P will give PML-N space where its candidates could succeed.
“We will strengthen PML-N in Balochistan,” he said, adding that there could be seat adjustments in some constituencies in the province and his party was prepared to help or take help from anyone where needed.
“A hung parliament after the election will add to the country’s problems,” he warned and said the future government must at least have a simple majority.
He said the country’s circumstances demand a broad-based agreement on policies and whoever forms the next government will have to take along all the other parties to steer the country out of crises. He said the PML-N faced the worst situation in 2018, but despite that, it won 64 seats from Punjab in 2018.
“We proved our popularity on October 21 and we will prove it again in the upcoming election. In 2013, we won 117 seats from Punjab, and this time we will get more seats in Punjab than in 2013,” he continued. Sanaullah said there were 46 seats in south Punjab out of which 35 clearly belonged to the PML-N and they would get the majority there.
The former minister made it clear that his party did not intend to go for a merger with the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) but was ready for seat adjustments.
