Sunday, August 17, 2008

Pakatan Rakyat Takes Over Putrajaya On 16 Sep?

Following Anwar's nomination in Permatang Pauh's by-election, "the mother of by-elections", it seems to be the PKR's defecto leader's plan to seize power on 16 Sep is imminent. But is Pakatan Rakyat (PR) ready? Does the 3 parties in PR ever discuss the plan to run the government? I'm sceptical about PR readiness and ability to form the government effectively if they ever seize power on 916. The following are the reasons.
  1. Earlier, I was convinced that the cross over will happen soon but to my disappointment, I haven't seen any clear sign of more than 30 MP will cross over to PR until now. Even if PR manage to secure 30 MP from BN, it will not be a stable government. The investors will not have confidence to invest further in the near future because they are not sure when the government will change hand again (BN will also find ways to snatch back the power). These uncertainties will definitely hurt our economy.
  2. Until now, PR has not even agreed on the PM's candidate (most of us have been naively think that Anwar is the automatic choice of PM until lately PAS gave us a surprise about their ideal PM candidate). PAS is still make everybody guessing about their political agenda.
  3. PR needs a leader and Anwar's PKR seems to be the one. However, DAP and PAS have never endorsed PKR as PR's leader.
  4. PAS has been signaling their dissatisfaction lately, of being marginalised by PKR & DAP. This will cause an unstable within PR for sure.
  5. PAS has lately been talking about their long time ideology of forming an" Islamic country", the fear of all non-muslims in the country. If PAS were to bring up the ideaology again after the new government is formed, it will definitely become the reason that bring the new government down.
  6. Who are the potential ministers? Unless there are enough number of quality MPs cross over to PR on or before 916, I can't think of any suitable candidate to be the Finance, International Trade or Education minister? I can not see any suitable candidate from DAP to assume the ministerial posts because they have been opposition for too long (they still behave like an opposition even though they rule one state and assist in the other two states). PKR is considered a young political party. I wonder other than DSAI, who is capable to be the minister? Azmin, Syed Husin, Lee Boon Chye, Tian Chua. I don't know too much about them and hence, not too comfortable with them yet. So, I don't wish to risk our next few years by relying on the bunch of unexperience chaps to run the country.
The only thing which is quite clear is, DAP is not eyeing for the PM's post (in fact, it is almost impossible for someone from DAP to assume the PM post at the moment). But should there be a fight between PKR and PAS over the PM post, it will be devastating to PR and the country. Furthermore, Umno will not sit back and wait for things to happen. Umno may provoke racial issues (things that they are good at) to create tension among races in order to spoil PR.

Personally, I welcome the 308 GE outcome but I do not wish to see PR makes it to Putrajaya on 916 due to the reasons mentioned above. The 3 parties within PR needs more time to reconcile before they are ready to take over BN.
For the time being, I wish to see that
  1. Anwar enter into Parliament to lead the opposition.
  2. DAP to run Penang properly to proof that they are the party who will take care of those need help rather than base on the race.
  3. There is change in PAS leadership so that the less radical will take over. Gambling and alcohol should be controlled but not ban. Hudud law has no place in Malaysia and PAS should realise that the concept of islamic country will be rejected totally by non muslims.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i personally feel that the 16 september government will never be intepreted into reality, considering the current state affairs, including the sodomy prosecution is still on progress. well, we can just wait and see..

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