COMMENT The disclosure - said to be inadvertent - that PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli is certain to be its candidate for the parliamentary seat of Pandan in Kuala Lumpur has had supporters hoping that as Pandan goes, so will the rest of the party.

This is so because, in happy contrast with the prelude to the last general election, there is now in PKR no dearth of candidates vying for selection.

Before the last general election in March 2008, party adviser Anwar Ibrahim had virtually to go around begging supporters to contest...