YOURSAY ‘PAS can never be a reliable coalition partner in Pakatan.’
PAS MP: We did roundabout, not U-turn
Asitis: As long as this tension between the progressives and the conservatives within PAS goes on, PAS can never be a reliable coalition partner in Pakatan Rakyat.
It will not be able to participate fully in the so-called Pakatan spirit of consensus. Each time Pakatan's leadership thought all have arrived at consensus, again and again they will be held back and frustrated by PAS' U-turn, roundabout and what not.
It is clear from events in the past weeks that PAS is only holding on to Pakatan for its own selfish interest (for votes it can never win on its own) and is not really interested in Pakatan's vision. Put in another way, PAS wants to have its cake and eat it.
If PKR, DAP and the progressives in PAS are really sincere of the Malaysian for all vision, it is time they review not only their relationship with PAS but also their strategy going forward.
Do they really need PAS in the coalition? Is there no way that they can do without PAS? Surely with all the bright minds in PKR and DAP, a way forward can be conceived for a future of Pakatan without this malignant growth that is PAS.
Ferdtan: I had been the strongest supporter of PAS being in the coalition as it was necessary to get rid of BN to begin a new dawn in Malaysia politics.
If I can come to term to accept that PAS is no longer an asset to Pakatan, I am sure there are many more Malaysians feeling the same. PAS is beyond redemption.
Unless the moderates can turn the table to kick Terengganu PAS (which now include Kelantan) clique under president Abdul Hadi Awang out of the party, there is no hope.
PKR and DAP shall persevere alone. Forget PAS. They won't change as the moderates are too weak in the party.
Wg321: Whether "roundabout" or "U-turn", the end result is still the same - betrayal. PAS, which is now controlled by the ulama faction, still refused to say it openly that they are anti-woman.
Appum: Let's put it this way. So long as Abdul Hadi heads PAS, it will be a perpetual thorn on Pakatan's side. Progressive PAS members need to break away to form their own party. They may not win many seats in their first GE, but they will in their subsequent ones.
PKR and DAP should dump PAS before the 14th GE and throw their support behind the new one. Are the progressive ones in all the three parties bold enough to take this step?
Jiminy Qrikert: For Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad to arrive at the conclusion that 30 versus 26 with a majority of four in Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail's favour should be enough to see her appointed as MB, actually confirms what we have all along suspected - that PAS is secretly aligning with Umno to rob Pakatan of the state government.
If not for the two PAS Aduns (state representatives) declaring their support for Wan Azizah, it would have been 28 even leading to a re-run of the Perak power grab by Umno-BN.
Come GE14, let us all remember this MB crisis that PAS triggered in their treacherous attempt to align with Umno to grab power and form a supremacist Malay government.
As I wish that MCA and Gerakan will die, so too now I wish that PAS will die. Let PAS be wiped out in every state except for their own kampung, Kelantan.
Fair Play: Khalid Samad, call it any which way you want it, to the right-thinking rakyat who voted nationwide for PAS, this roundabout act is betrayal of the worst kind.
PAS has just signed its own death warrant and would be rendered irrelevant in national politics.
If you and others like you want to contribute to the development of a progressive nation, all of you would have to consider very seriously whether PAS is the right platform for all of you.
Unafraid: In one stroke, by this act of treachery or indecision, if you like, PAS has betrayed the trust of the rakyat in Selangor and shown to a lot of right-thinking Malaysians what kind of leaders the party have. They are disloyal, narrow minded, gender biased and religious extremists.
With the current sentiment of revulsion to the gross behaviour of religious extremists in the Middle East sweeping across the nation and gaining traction among moderate Malaysia, PAS will lose a significant number of votes among the non-Muslims.
That's the price they are prepared to pay for their irrational and bigoted stand by not supporting Wan Azizah as the next MB of Selangor. What they sow today, they will reap tomorrow.
SultanMydin: PAS is throwing the spanner in the works at the eleventh hour obviously hoping that their candidate will be made MB as they can claim they have the largest number of seats.
By doing so, they are falling into the trap laid out by Umno whose objective is to see the breakup of Pakatan and surely it will.
Oh Ya?: Khalid Samad is defending the indefensible. In a constitutional monarchy, the last thing one wants to do is to leave it to the ruler to decide. This is an affront to democratic principle.
And it is also unfair to drag the palace into Pakatan's internal fight. Pakatan will pay dearly in future elections, including the Kelantan by-election. Don't take the voters for granted.
Cantabrigian: Whatever the reason is, the damage has been done: PAS no longer holds moral high ground to dictate what is best for the rakyat because they can't even agree on what is best for themselves.
I am very disappointed because PAS has improved by leaps and bounds to emerge as a progressive civil society, but just because of one stupid incident involving PKR MB, they lost all credibility and face.
Now, they fare worse than Umno and PKR combined. Vote for PAS? Nah, I'll pass.
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