Growing distrust as Pakatan break-up looms

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YOURSAY ‘Is Pakatan serious about offering a choice to the people?’

 

Pakatan leaders vow to strengthen troubled pact

Jiminy Qrikert: If one week in politics is a long time, then four years to GE14 in 2018 is an eternity.

 

If over just 15 months, since GE13 in May 2013, there can be so many issues driving wedges into the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, then a good 48 months means potentially three times as many such issues to drive logs to break Pakatan apart before GE14.

 

If these three Pakatan leaders getting together to conveniently put on a song and dance and sign meaningless pacts think they can expect the rakyat to continue to put up with their nonsense, then they are wrong. Dead wrong.

 

Loyalty is one thing. Sheer stupidity is quite another. And if with their constantly recurring ‘make up to break up again’ rubbish, Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Abdul Hadi Awang think the rakyat are stupid enough to believe they can actually make a difference, then they are in for a thumping surprise in GE14.

 

Unspin: Action speaks louder than words and based on recent actions, it is obvious to everyone that PAS does not see eye-to-eye with PKR and DAP.

 

These three leaders should step aside to allow younger leaders to emerge and shine. Pakatan does have many capable young leaders who can step up to the plate if given the opportunity.

 

They would also be more appealing and in tune with the younger generation. Anwar, Kit Siang and Hadi - despite their best efforts - have mud on them after decades of concerted character assassination by BN.

 

As an example, Kit Siang is labelled as a Chinese chauvinist (he is not, but you cannot fight perception). Anwar, on the other hand, has the sodomy case hanging over him that is impossible to escape from.

 

As for Hadi, what can we say? Put it this way - do you think he can have a meeting with US President Barack Obama and say something intelligent, other than limited knowledge of his religion?

 

Malaysian 53: It is all smiles now, but many of us have serious doubts about Hadi and PAS. It is a pity because PAS does have many good leaders such as Khalid Samad, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and others.

 

We better not have another private U-turn by Hadi as the damage from his recent action has been a national disaster for the opposition cause in the country.

 

The damage to PAS is also not to be taken lightly as the non-Muslims would not trust them again. It’s time the PAS Supporters Club reviews its purpose for existence and Pakatan be better prepared for a strategy without PAS.

 

Bash: It has been a long and winding road for Pakatan, much to the delight of BN.

 

It goes to show that our politicians are full of ungentlemanly characters. They can say something but do another to upset their earlier agreement.

 

Is Pakatan serious about offering a choice to the people? Think again and act consistently before you are consigned to history and never to return.

 

Fair Play: Time and again PAS had shown to be at odds with the principles that they had agreed upon when they formed the Pakatan coalition pact.

 

I’m not sure this latest development is just an interim damage control exercise to prevent a total break-up. The real issues facing the three partners are these:

 

1. Do they share a common vision and goal to be a superior alternative to BN?

 

2. Do they have an all-inclusive policy and strategy to unite all Malaysians as Malaysians and not under the narrow confines of race and religion?

 

3. Apart from the special position of Malay-Muslim Malaysians, Islam as the religion of the federation and loyalty to king and nation, do they subscribe to the tenets of the constitution that all citizens are equal?

 

4. And finally, do they undertake to uphold the constitution as the supreme law of the land?

 

If not, more crises will surface and an eventual break-up will come, sooner or later.

 

Abasir: As the trio attempt to mend the tear, one thing must be made clear to all three - what any one of them says in private can, at some point or other, become public. That is the nature of the Digital Age.

 

As such, they should stop acting as disingenuous, two-faced politicians and start being men of unimpeachable integrity worthy of the people's respect, across the board.

 

That is the only way to differentiate themselves from those who make up Umno and its minions. Provide the unifying leadership this country does not have... and you do not have to be in Putrajaya to do that.

 

Multi Racial: PKR, DAP and PAS have to be genuine and realistic. The focus has to be the dream of Malaysians, not their dreams.

 

It has to be on the bigger agenda. Right now corruption is draining the country and this has to stop. Racial and religion polarisation has got to stop.

 

Leaders should be focusing on unity and not dividing the people. Leaders should lead by example and not be hypocrites.

 

Bumiputhran: Pakatan has only about a six-year history. It is bound to have teething problems. The strength of Pakatan is its transparency and the process it uses to resolve these intermittent crises.

 

For change to a better Malaysia, one that is rid of Umno-BN and its corruption, the rakyat has to bear with some degree of tolerance and not forget that the road to Putrajaya is riddled with potholes.


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