PAS vice-president Husam Musa. Klang valley riven by anger
If PAS leaves the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, it may take another three decades for it to regain the position it is in now, warns its vice-president Husam Musa.
. Pas lack strategic vision and is too myopic is see the longer term goal . If Pas leave Pakatan because of one person Khalid , it will be the biggest loser . First ,Pas will carry the name of betrayal. Second ,it defy logic to support an independent as MB . Third , it is teaming with Umno whom Pas has been accusing them for many years . Fourth , will Umno share the seats of majority Malay areas with Pas ? Pas will be killed by BN eventually . In history , all those who betrayed and joined the enemy will never be trusted by the enemy itself and will be destroyed eventually
Pas must be realistic. The only reason they did well is because they are part of Pakatan Rakyat. Personally if PAS stood outside Pakatan Rakyat, I would not have voted for them. Is Pas so desperate to form an Islamic state and the implementation of hudud laws at all cost by stabbing his fellow partners (DAP & PKR) in the back? If that is so, Pas is just as dirty as Umno. You call yourself Islamic, pious, etc. Never trust a Pas man wearing a kopiah or a Taliban turban. Pas already laying the groundwork to leave PR by attacking Lim Guan Eng over the tunnel bridge in Penang. It is vey obvious Pas is making use of Khalid Ibrahim to leave Pakatan Rakyat. Real hypocrite.the problem is majority of PAS members never learn from past mistakes. Just because it managed to win Kedah, it thought it could go on its own. Now, even worst. It is willing to gang up with UMNO to frustrate PR in ousting Khalid. PAS is a goner, come GE or snap poll in Selangor. The DAP parliamentary leader said that it was "urgent and imperative" that the 43 assemblymen, including 15 reps from PAS, who have yet to decide on the issue.
"With the declaration by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin that the 12 Barisan Nasional Selangor representatives will give their unconditional support to Khalid to continue as the Selangor MB, it is urgent and imperative for all 43 PR Selangor assemblymen from PKR, DAP and PAS to state their stand on the issue," he said in a statement today. my respect for our political class has been on an asymptotic decline for a while now. Its capacity to sacrifice national interest at the altar of their narrow self-interest seems limitless No sooner do we think we have found a low in their morality, that we go on to discover a new low – and this goes on ad infinitum. So deep runs this rot that citizens of the country seem to have run out of their very capacity to be surprised, sad or disgusted any more with the conduct they are repeatedly presented with by this class. And this augurs well for our politicians who see this limiting capacity of the common man as yet another opportunity worth exploiting, reaching yet another low point in their conduct! all of us have seen the anguished cries of the multitude against the sheer scale of criminality of the political class. The country has been held to ransom at the hands of self-serving politicians and their middle-men and power-brokers who may include bureaucrats, policemen and even defence personnel, who have together looted the country
. That’s why we need to ensure that this election will ensure a fair deal for the voter. Contingent Coalitions in case of no clear majority should be announced up front. If no clear majority of a coalition is then able to form the government, let the elections be held again. The cost of the re-election would be much less than the cost of farcical coalitions that we are constrained to call our governments.
After all, if each pillar of our Constitution did what it was charged to do by the Constitution, the country would be in a much better shape, right? After all, extraordinary times – and these are extraordinary times, make no mistake about it – call for extraordinary interventions, S'gor ruler didn't end MB debacle the head of state is playing politics!! Rather than show he's above politics he has shown clearly by his actions
.This concerns the matter of alliances and coalitions in our polity, which is growing into the mother of all that is wrong with our politics today.
Every political party has or is supposed to have its manifesto and political philosophy, whether to the left or to the right of the centre. But every party is expected to let its position be known publicly. It is based on this public declaration of their tilts that voters are supposed to vote. But imagine a responsible democracy, where no political party had any declared principles or philosophies of its own and people were expected to vote for them!who will shrewdly , openly and shamelessly sell out their ideologies (if any), and the trust of their voters, to the highest bidder in the horse trading that routinely ensues post elections. This state of affairs suits the big-two, UMNIO and PAS, for it enables them to rule by hook or by crook. And this is also the area that gives cause for much cash-power during the horse-trading.Aren’t the voters entitled to know exactly where the inclinations of the parties they are to vote for lie? Is it not their reasonable expectation to know which parties form a unified team before they vote? How can they vote for a party, which post elections may join either the UMNOor PAS, for instance, depending on who was willing to pay how much or offer how many state exco berths or such other quid pro quos?
But even more importantly, isn’t it absolutely crucial for us to know what alliances the Big Two (say the ruling major party and the major opposition party) will form post any election, because, after all, is it not this which determines what policies they will formulate and govern the nation, once they form the government? By forming rag-tag coalitions just to pass the arithmetic test to form a government, aren’t these governments subject to completely contrary pulls and pushes and go whichever way the small partners pull them, depending on which partner at which point on time wields the make or break power in the coalition? No wonder the government has shown little coherence of purpose in policy making—they don’t seem to know where to go, or how to get there, because each of the coalition partners is pulling a different way. Is this in keeping with the normal expectations of a half-way decent polity? Aren’t we flirting with the expectations of voters by allowing such unprincipled coalitions of convenience?
It takes an ambitious man to cripple the administration of the richest state in our country. Because of his over-inflated ego, he has forgotten his pledge to serve the people of Selangor. All his talk about competency, accountability and transparency when he first took office in 2008 as Menteri Besar has come to nothing. It was just a political sweet talk.
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