YOURSAY | 'It does not seem to have cohesiveness in statements on important issues.'

PAS sings funeral march for Pakatan Harapan

Kawak: I don’t trust PAS research centre director Zuhdi Marzuki, who is seen to be with the pro-Umno faction in the party. But Zuhdi's comments this time around appears apt.

Harapan Baru does not seem to have a leader and cohesiveness in making statements on important issues affecting the country and rakyat. Even within PKR, their leaders make conflicting statements.

Some leaders, whether in DAP or PKR, have become arrogant. In Penang and Selangor, both the chief minister and the menteri besar must come to their senses. Sometimes power makes a person lose one’s humility and sense of direction.

They must start to listen to the voters again as when they were first elected. Though in Penang, Lim Guan Eng and his team have done a good job, being arrogant may bring about their downfall.

Quigonbond: Well, let's not be afraid of such views and explore it with full gusto instead.

Suppose it is true that Pakatan Harapan will collapse because PKR cannot see eye to eye with DAP secretary-general Lim and leaves. So Pakatan Harapan will be only left with Amanah and DAP.

Three years on, Malaysia will be in an absolutely shitty state. Tolls would have already gone up, and at that juncture, probably the next hike would be postponed to 2020.

Electricity tariffs would have gone up. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) probably won't be adjusted until after GE14, but the damage would have already been done.

1MDB would have disposed of its troubled assets and wound down by then. Barring any new scandals, people would have forgotten the horrible things that BN has done to our economy and institutions.

Some opposition leaders are probably in jail for various offences. Even if they are not, they are unlikely to contest in the elections because they have been disqualified.

BN will likely win again but still won't be able to secure its two-thirds majority because even if PKR and Pakatan Harapan are apart, they are still part of the larger coalition of moderates.

And if by departing from Pakatan Harapan, PKR gets to work with PAS, then this Pakatan Rakyat takes a few seats from BN. In a contest between Pakatan Harapan and PAS, of course PAS will get burnt.

Then, the opposition tries to live another four years to defeat BN, in 2023, GE15. Let's say this is the new reality. Is it so bad? No, it won't change the current status quo because at the end of the day, Malaysians still want a change of government - the majority of voters that is. This majority can only increase. And they can influence those in other constituencies.

I suppose PAS is 'shiok sendiri' when it thinks about Pakatan Harapan imploding.

But the fact is, rising from the ashes, in whatever remaining combinations, the voters won't stop voting for Pakatan Harapan, and they won't give their votes to PAS.

Aminnudin Kadir: The so-called squabbles in Pakatan Harapan proves there's healthy and open discussion among members.

This is in stark contrast to PAS where its president Abdul Hadi Awang often overrules the party.

Sabahan: Indeed, the fact that there is disagreement (on non-critical issues) clearly shows that there is true democracy in Pakatan Harapan, unlike BN where only Umno calls the shots.

Ng Kam Loon: DAP, PKR and Amanah have brainy leaders and can have meaningful deliberations among themselves whereas in PAS, only Hadi can make decision. The same applies in Umno and BN.

Bijan: Zuhdi, you are very narrow-minded. You still belong to the dinosaur age of race-based politics. Who said Indians won't vote for Pakatan Harapan when there are no Indian candidates?

All races voted for PAS in GE13 although PAS did not have Indian candidates. Have you forgotten that?

Hank Marvin: Zuhdi forgot one thing: that in the new Pakatan Harapan there is no character like PAS who stabbed friends from behind.

PKR might play that role but it will get booted out by the voters if it keeps flirting with PAS.

Wsoi: The funeral march is for PAS more than anybody else. In Malaysia, no single political party can survive on its own strength. Not even Umno. Why did the masses, regardless of race, choose Pakatan Rakyat in GE13?

Because they can form the next federal government. Choose PAS for what? Don't think Malaysians are so stupid.

The non-Malay is very comfortable with Pakatan Harapan. The Selangor progressive Malays are also supporting Pakatan Harapan.

PAS as a political party, will not be able to give them jobs, not to mention anything substantial on economy, finance, commerce, science and technology, which they hardly know.

The Voice From The Wilderness: PAS is confident making this assessment, aware their rogue leader has a very capable 'nominee' - a spoiler in Pakatan Harapan.

If DAP and Amanah do not have the will to confront PKR on this issue of loyalty, the wheels from the vehicle of people's hope will certainly fall off.

Hopeful123: I agreed that there are unreliable and Trojan horses in PKR. Selangor MB Azmin Ali has to be removed. He is dancing to the tune of PAS knowing fully well that PAS is siding Umno.

Then there is the fiasco in Penang where the PKR assemblypersons abstained from the Umno motion.

PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has to sit down with all concerned and seriously consider injecting new blood into the party, and removing all suspected turncoats before the next GE, failing which the dream of taking over Putrajaya will forever remain a dream.

The Analyser: Of course, Amanah won't survive. They have no principles of their own, no policies, no direction. And the worst aspect of their existence is that they perpetuate the links between religion and politics which means on that count alone, they are doomed.

What role can an Islamist party fulfil other than to impose Quranic law on a community? Islam is a way of life that will not allow any other way of life apart from its own.

I strongly suspect they don't even know that they have been set up as DAP's puppets. I predict they won't survive beyond their first electoral challenge

Appum: PAS and Zuhdi, you cannot be trusted as shown by the pursuing of secret negotiations with the enemy (Umno) of Pakatan Rakyat behind your coalition's back.

You showed no political principles, you tell lies, you undermined your coalition partners by going against the agreed platform, you interpret your religion to suit your needs and ambitions, you are extreme in the Malaysian environment by forcing hudud laws upon the people.

When you cannot be trusted as a party, how can you lead at all?

Tangling: PAS is like the fox claiming that the grapes are sour just because it couldn't get to the delicious grapes hanging high up.

Mafeeah: Zuhdi, do you realise that the undertaker is already standing next to PAS?

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