YOURSAY | ‘A party with little or no money politics will probably have outcomes like this.’
Another Rafizi ally falls in PKR division polls
BluePanther4725: Rafizi Ramli is the best hope for PKR to reform and stay on the course.
Unfortunately, PKR sidelined good, competent leaders like Rafizi in order to follow the Umno way, which includes money politics.
PKR president-cum-PM Anwar Ibrahim also wants to follow the Umno way and surrounds himself with incompetent people like Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Fahmi Fadzil and Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz.
Unless PKR wakes up and reforms, it is going downhill.
Business First: It seems like history is repeating itself. Just as former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad undermined and weakened his deputies to stay at the top in Umno, we see the same pattern emerging in PKR.
It’s a dysfunctional relationship between head and deputy in Umno, Umno Baru, Umno 2.0 (Bersatu) and Umno 3.0 (PKR). They are all cut from the same cloth.
We see this pattern emerging time and time again. It does not help that some are not the best in governance, but certainly adapt to the art of politics.
JBond: A party that has little or no money politics will probably have outcomes like this. Those who are ministers have little time to connect with their bases, so they lose support as a result.
Unlike that corrupt party, where the supporters are fed with projects and RM come in any party election.
A healthy political culture, which is good for the country, is needed. If you can’t perform, you go. Don’t loot to buy time like that party in power for 60 years.
IndigoJaguar7545: “We’ll come for you after Pakatan Harapan wins GE15,” Rafizi tells Azam Baki after MACC raids on Invoke.
So Rafizi only cared about government misconduct when it affected him, but as soon as it affected anyone else, there was “no comment” from him.
I don’t trust any PKR politician, even the “new” ones. Malaysia is in a constitutional crisis with interference in the judiciary, and yet you joined PKR? It’s like joining Umno in the 1980s!
Big names ousted in PKR divisional polls due to 'arrogance': Hassan
Apanama: Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim, arrogance is one thing. However, the real root cause is a gradual evolution of the lesser Umno Baru or PKR, your party, into more Umno Baru with the actual Umno Baru as their benchmark.
Did you notice this trend since November 2022?
No? Then, “terus berusaha (continue with the effort)”.
PKR will implode, similar to what is happening to Umno Baru because PKR has Umno Baru’s “toxic gen” which is mutating at the moment.
Pink: I agree with Hassan, but disagree with his harsh assessment of Akmal Nasir. Even though I live in Johor Bahru, I have never seen him around here.
However, I saw him interviewed on Singapore’s TV. He was very articulate, spoke with impeccable English that would even intimidate Singaporeans.
I was very proud of him, and I would rank him higher than Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman in terms of intellect and articulacy.
We must remember that he is a KLite, not a country bumpkin from JB and he has the air of superiority in him.
However, superior or not, I believe that all politicians are the same, and I don’t trust them.
PKR politicians, especially the Malays, are just like Umno politicians, who are arrogant and patronising.
Luckily, unlike feudalistic Umno, where the heads of divisions are mostly warlords, using money to hold on to power and very difficult to unseat, PKR politicians are subjected to more educated, urbane and democratic members and a no-nonsense type and thus easily toppled.
For that, I admire PKR, a truly democratic and multiracial party, the only one that could be trusted to glue the diverse society of Malaysia.
We have to thank Anwar for this, who provided us with an alternative to the racist political parties in Malaysia.
That said, I would still vote for PAS because I strongly believe we need a strong opposition and a party that protects the interests and special privileges of the Muslims.
Vent: Perhaps there are justified elements of discontent, as you surmise, Hassan, in your analysis.
However, I also detect some racism in the number of non-Malays defeated (though some deserved to fall) and the rise of the rabble as well.
Both were most probably engineered by the legendary grassroots leader himself. No prizes for guessing who!
If relatively good men like Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad can fall to a failed and disgraced comedian and other Rafizi’s men to unknowns, then who are the technocrats left in PKR?
Rafizi (warts and all) stood for a more progressive stance that has now been effectively stymied by the man holding the strings in fear of a possible ouster in the future.
That said, PKR has become an avatar of its bedfellow Umno anyway, and the fall of many non-Malays and some of Rafizi’s men has only cemented its metamorphosis.
Beats me why any non-Malays would even want to remain in the party, let alone vote for it when the writing is so large on the walls!
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