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Total Number of National Assembly seats: 342
PPP: 142 seats
PML-N: 91
PML-Q: 54
MQM: 25
ANP: 13
MMA: 7
Independent & Baloch Nationalist: 17
PPP ’s candidate: Asif Zardari
PML-N’s candidate: Retired Chief Justice of Pakistan, Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui
Seats required to win presidency: 172
This means Zardari needs 47 seats over and above all of PPP’s seats to secure the spot. MQM has already pledged its allegiance to Zardari. +25 ANP has said they wont hinder Zardari’s rise to power. +13. Plus the spineless MMA…
If we minus those from PPP who arent too happy with Zardari and hold grudges against him ‘for holding the Bhutto legacy hostage’; such as Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Aitezaz Ahsan…And those from MQM, MMA and ANP who still have an iota of sanity in them; then we just might be able to avert this disaster…
