Nawaz does not rule out coalition with PPP
LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif does not totally rule out a coalition with the PPP after the elections but deferred the repeated questions from Karan Thapar of CNN-India in a detailed interview spread over two sessions.
Karan asked Nawaz: “The polls clearly suggest yours will be the single biggest party, but the polls are also suggesting you won’t have a majority on your own and you would have to form a coalition. Would you consider looking to the PPP for support because they already have a majority in the Senate?
Nawaz Sharif: Well, I think this country needs a strong government; this country doesn’t need a split mandate. Split mandate will not solve the problems of this country, as I just now mentioned that the problems are huge and the challenges are huge. So we need a strong government.
But I don’t rule out the possibility of a coalition.
Karan: With the PPP?
Nawaz Sharif: No, no I am just... I am answering your question. I feel that let everybody go to the elections, then come back in parliament, we will see what the position is in parliament and how the parties have, you see, lined up and then we will see if we can really—if we are not in majority, of course, we have an agenda. And those people who would share our vision, who will be prepared to share our vision, I think there is no harm that we all sit down together because as I said it’s not any personal battle that I am fighting.
Karan: It is Pakistan...
Nawaz Sharif: It is Pakistan’s battle that I am fighting. To pull the country out of the mess that it is in, so, therefore, I think everybody who would share that vision will have to sit down together across the table to see that we can jointly bring the country out of difficulties it is facing.
Karan: Let me put it like this: In 2008 after the last elections, you briefly formed a coalition with the PPP. This time around to encourage the PPP to support you, would you consider something like offering Asif Zardari a second term as president because that post now, the presidency, as you know, is a ceremonial post, it doesn’t carry any power that it did previously.
Nawaz Sharif: These are the answers which could be given after the elections; I cannot really answer these questions at this stage. This is, I think, very premature stage to answer these questions, but I would, certainly if you come back to Pakistan after the elections, I will be very happy to answer these questions.
Link :
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-22710-Nawaz-does-not-rule-out-coalition-with-PPP
Moral : DONT VOTE PML-N otherwise bear ZARDARI-PPP FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS.
an alliance is on the cards and why not 
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