TBH Zardai is a clever and crude politician in comparison to the gullible idiot Nawaz. He will definately use this to his advantage due to his neutral stance in regards to the Military.
Pakistani people are not stupid they know the drama Nawaz played in the last few years faking his illness to run to London while thousands of people died from COVID. Zardari/Bilawal played it mature spoke when they had to in a fashion that made them the mature opposition in the public eyes. While Nawaz, his daughter, and his family where cursing the military at the Quaids moseleum Bilawal projected himself as a nationalist politician willing to compromise for national interest. In retrospect gaining the respect of even his politican enemies.
If elections are held today the PML-N would be wiped clean. PTI and PPP would gain 90% of the lost PML-N seats. PPP has a strong chance in gaining many seats in Balochistan, KP, and make a comeback as well in Punjab but all at the expense of the PML-N. PTI will end up as the largest party in punjab, continue to run the govt in KP, GB and Balochistan by proxy. PPP emerges as the key opposition and has a chance to further soliditfy itself going into 2024 and actually maybe have a chance at coming to power at a national level post 2030.
But I stand to say that IK is the dominant political force in Pakistan and if fair election were held today he would sweep more seats and most likely even form a govt on his own, same will be said for the situation in the 2023 elections. Dont forget 10% of the seats are always dominated by independant candidates. IKs sheer personal popularity has been a magnet for all of these independants who end up joining PTI post elections similar to the GB elections and elections held in 2018. PPP has a bad reputation but slowly getting better but I see them slowly rebuilding themselves as a national party.
If I was Zardari at the moment I would use the PDM to completely wipe out PML-N from politics and use it to gain more seats at there expense.
