Pakatan Rakyat's Common Policy Framework (CPF), announced at its inaugural national convention in Shah Alam, needs plenty of work if it is to win hearts and minds in Sabah and Sarawak.

The CPF laid out reforms that Sarawakians and Sabahans have long been clamouring for. Pakatan included a provision of 20 percent of oil royalties to the two impoverished states, a tremendous improvement on the current five percent.