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A litmus to gauge the public sentiment vis a vis PTI's governance. This is even after PML N is engaged in infighting with two poles in the party. It is barely making it even with an inefficient opposition and the main opposition party that is busy infighting. It looks like we are in for a change of govt in 2023.Curtesy to Usman buzdar, PTI defeated comprehensively in Lahore Multan Rawalpindi as well as in Peshawar ...
Final Results
PTI: 60
PMLn: 59
Independent: 55
A litmus to gauge the public sentiment vis a vis PTI's governance. This is even after PML N is engaged in infighting with two poles in the party. It is barely making it even with an inefficient opposition and the main opposition party that is busy infighting. It looks like we are in for a change of govt in 2023.
Are you referring to the cantonment boards?So just because this is a gated community, no one's gonna allege that they are corrupt or Indians?
More than that, inflation is making people planted firmly in the anti-PTI camp. Signs are that the overheating economy is going to usher in further hardships for the common folk. By 2023, PTI would be even more unpopular. It is 2007-2013 PPP govt. all over again.I don't think any party in Federal Government has ever performed this poorly in any local bodies elections.
PTI and PML-N almost have a tie, but the major development is, that latter has swept Punjab. Shows you how unpopular Buzdar administration is for Punjabis.
More than that, inflation is making people planted firmly in the anti-PTI camp. Signs are that the overheating economy is going to usher in further hardships for the commonfolk. By 2023, PTI would be even more unpopular. It is 2007-2013 PPP govt. all over again.
What's that?Are you referring to the cantonment boards?
I don't think any party in Federal Government has ever performed this poorly in any local bodies elections.
PTI and PML-N almost have a tie, but the major development is, that latter has swept Punjab. Shows you how unpopular Buzdar administration is for Punjabis.
People compare Punjab's performance, and there is a consensus that PML N did a much better job. However, these are small-time things which ideally local governments should be looking into. PML N did not fail in this small-time governance, which should ideally be the vocation of local governments. It failed at the federal level in terms of the economic choices it backed or did not back. Again, refer to the same populist decision-making urges that stop political governments from making tough decisions as they have to get re-elected after a 5-year cycle. Structural issues remain unaddressed, and each boom and bust cycle makes us more indebted, shorts dollar supply in the economy, and devalues our currency, thereby reducing the size of our economy (GDP). However, the public does not care about the larger picture. It cares about paved roads outside its home, cheap vegetables, wheat, pulses, low utility bills, and a job for the family's breadwinner. Unfortunately, the long term interests of the common folk and their short term interests do not always align (decision-makers understand this, but the public does not), and this is where tough economic decisions have to be made which political governments cannot for 5 full years (or longer because of the nature of our economy's structural problems is so dire that it could take much longer).That's true. Inflation and bad governance in Punjab is a huge factor in shifting of the vote bank of neutral folks, which is always the majority. It tilted towards PTI a bit in Punjab back in 2018 but now it's shifting back to PML-N, not because they have performed well as opposition, but because PTI has failed miserably in governance.
The garbage problem is another area which is being overlooked. Look at how Lahore is being managed, just a small example; Dengue is taking a serious shape after years, and if you'd know the history of how it was controlled last time, you can guess only how it can re-emerge; negligence. But of course, inflation tops it all.