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One, it is a war of attrition against BN; Two, it is another war to keep the supporters involved until the next federal elections; and Three, it is a war between the factions making up the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. Three simultaneous battles to secure the rights to form the next federal government.
Not an easy undertaking for any person aspiring to be the next Prime Minister of Malaysia. Can Anwar Ibrahim be that particular person to assume the responsibilities that has befallen him? This is not a brief task as the next federal election is slotted before 2013. That is four very long years and anything can happen within this period of time. Additionally, there is the threat of a sodomy case against him together with an “all-too-evident” DNA Bill bubbling in the works (even though it has been deferred to next year which is a month away). If this is not sufficient to cause major anxiety to the aspiring PM, there are the in fighting between PAS and DAP on several fronts that has grabbed the headline news in the local media. As Malaysia Day has come to pass with only a hint of a whisper, the disillusionment of the Pakatan supporters have been tempered by the conduct in which the BN government has manipulated the course of event to be apparently non-functional with its impromptu sending of certain politicians to Taiwan for a brief period of time. Pakatan can sincerely be thankful to BN for doing so because it provides them with a valid alibi as to why the thirty BN legislators did not crossover to PR, as assured by DSAI. Frankly speaking, it was never going to happen at that particular date as Parliament was out of session. Secondly, the dilemma of having a large number of “non-Malay” elected legislators crossing over to PR is not what DSAI and PR envisioned owing to the fact that it would disturb the balance of power within this multiracial party. PAS will never stand for it, as it will undermine the Ketuanan Melayu concept while voicing out that they are impartial to racial hegemony. In fact certain PKR legislators will be aghast at this, if ever it happened (which it did not). Even the majority of Malaysian Malays will be revolted if ever this comes to pass. The truth of the matter is that DSAI has intentionally guided its supporters to assume that the crossovers are made up of parliamentarians from East Malaysia but a lot of Pakatan’s supporters can evidently deduce that this is purely a façade to divert the BN government from the real “jumpers”. I truthfully believe that the seventeen or so parliamentarians (on the “list”) that had verbally agreed to cross over are in fact from BN component parties in West Malaysia, especially UMNO. This agreement was made when BN was backpedaling, before Malaysia Day. All bets are off now when DSAI was incapable of garnering sufficient BN parliamentarians to consent to jumping over. As for the East Malaysian “decoy”, the stronger BN component parties from Sabah and Sarawak will never agree to jump unless the figure “30” is brought down to less than ten. If this becomes a reality, they become the powerful Kingmaker and in the process secure the real power behind the throne. Not a scenario DSAI (and PKR) envisaged and certainly not a situation both PAS and DAP desires, not even to form the government. The only jumper has not joined PR but stayed as an independent party when the supposedly cascade did not materialize. As the attempts to tempt such crossovers are being extended to an undeclared date, BN has begun to consolidate and from their defensive stance of Pak Lah’s regime, they have started the grand offensive to deny Pakatan any such opportunities by the enticing of PR parliamentarians to leave the opposition camp. In achieving so (even with just a few), BN would have effectively demoralized both the opposition supporters and the opposition party members. A grand ploy indeed. DSAI has no reasons to be afraid of being incarcerated for the alleged sodomy charges because the government will not be enthusiastic to make a martyr out of him. What BN will do is to ridicule and demean DSAI until his popularity and integrity are being questioned by his PR colleagues and his band of supporters. Only then will they move in for the kill, once and for all, and this time the outcry will resemble a whimper that will be overwhelmed by a massive show of force by BN. Another ten years behind bars will effectively condemn DSAI to obscurity and turn the nation to an autocratic state. It is henceforth imperative that DSAI gathers all his forces to conduct an enormous push towards Putrajaya. The future of Malaysia depends on it. - Hakim Joe
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