Can Anwar Ibrahim ever sacrifice Azmin Ali?

The Malaysian Insider - Pakatan to use joint manifesto, says Azmin


This bloke has a known HABIT of issuing press statements to present other Pakatan allies like DAP and PAS with fait accompli favourable to PKR so much so I don't believe him whenever he claims to speak on behalf of Pakatan.


For example, he said:

The Presidential Council [of Pakatan] has set a guideline on seat allocation and in the spirit of co-operation there will be a straight fight between PR and Barisan Nasional. We decided that there will be no bargaining for seats won by any component party.

Now, we are well aware that PKR has been under pressure to 'surrender' those state and federal seats won by its created frogs. Obviously the bloke is stating 'hands off' to seats like (just a few examples, and there are more) Changkat Jering and Behrang state seats and the Bagan Serai parliamentary seat in Perak.

PAS has made a bid to contest these three in the next general election. Perak PAS deputy commissioner Mohd Misbahul Munir argued that  Pakatan would have a better chance to retain the seats if PAS candidates were fielded wakakaka, and he probably has a point given the frogological (opportunistic) nature of some PKR candidates.


Mohd Misbahul said the party had raised the matter with the state Pakatan Rakyat committee “to respect the wishes of the grassroots in the area”, whatever he meant by ‘respect the wishes of the grassroots in the area’ wakakaka.

Mohd Misbahul also said PAS would leave the decision to the Pakatan supreme council.

Of course Perak PKR vice-chairman Chang Lih Kang told PAS to pordah, asserting that seat negotiation among Pakatan component parties in the state had been concluded, with PKR allocated Changkat Jering, Behrang and Bagan Serai seats.

Effectively, both are saying the same thing, that the Pakatan supreme council should decide (or already have). And what was that decision? Alas, still Top Secret lah wakakaka.

Somehow the declaration by ‘that bloke’ wakakaka that “there will be no bargaining for seats won by any component party” sounded very unilateral, a suspicion not completely unfounded given his known HABIT of presenting fait accompli (so he hopes) to Pakatan allies with his media statements, like his humongous grab for PKR in the last Sarawak state election but with abysmal results wakakaka, and ...


... Nurul Izzah's surprisingly selfish statement that PKR intends on holding to approximately 52 of that state's 71 seats - for background on this, read my last year's post Sarawak CM Taib can thank Azmin Ali for saving his hide.

To my mind, Pakatan joint statements should only be made in the presence of at least a member from each ally-party, and not by manmanlai junior alone. Who the f* is he anyway in the Pakatan scheme of things?

While on 'that bloke' I refer to CT Ali's article in Free Malaysia Today (FMT) titled Anwar must decide on Azmin.

Incidentally, CT Ali is a reformist who believes in Pakatan Rakyat’s ideologies and works at FMT as a columnist. He wrote:

Our nation bleeds copiously from the wounds inflicted upon it by those who think themselves fit to be leaders of this country of ours. 

Wounds inflicted upon our nation by pretenders to the thrones and who are at best, suffering from delusions of grandeur as a result of their inability to comprehend their own self worth.

Many walk the corridors of powers in Putrajaya where Barisan Nasional rules and some walk the alleyways in Penang, Kedah, Kelantan and Selangor – states that Pakatan Rakyat now rule. Some have the audacity to think themselves crown prince of the realm they are now in, Menteri Besar-designate of the state their party now controls and some imagine themselves future ministers in a Pakatan Rakyat government.

One of these upstarts that I speak of is Azmin Ali from PKR. The same Azmin that seems to have an almost magical hold over Anwar Ibrahim. The same Azmin who today is the target of gutter politics directed yet again at PKR. 

And in all of this, Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim choses to stand clear as his nemesis inches towards his own end. “Ahhhh” said Khalid, “retribution has finally comes to those that had seek my demise earlier – God is truly great”!

At the beginning of this post I stated 'PKR has been under pressure to 'surrender' those state and federal seats won by its created frogs'. What do I mean by 'its created frogs', where I included tadpoles as well - where tadpoles are former PKR members who do not hold any state or federal seats when they left.

Obviously I'm referring to people like Gobala, Nallakaruppan, Ezam, Zaid, Abdul Rahman, Johari, Jonson Chong, etc. Perhaps I'm unkind to some of them by classifying them as frogs or tadpoles in that they left not because they wish to be in BN (some are NOT in BN where they are in fact against BN while admittedly some like Ezam and Nalla have joined BN), but I would say most left because of Azmin Ali and his unusual strong (even overpowering) influence over Anwar Ibrahim - hence PKR 'created' its own frogs.

CT Ali further wrote:

I have never been one for gutter politics because there is a bit of that ‘gutter’ factor in everyone of us – lest the same is directed towards our ownselves as all it takes is for someone to dig deep enough and all will be revealed. But what if ‘gutter politics’ reveals the unsuitability of Azmin to be a leader within PKR and of Selangor?

Rahim Thambi Chik was never convicted of being a paedophile but he was ousted as Chief Minister of Malacca because the evidence against him overwhelmingly convicted him in the eyes of the public so much so that even Umno had to bow down to the inevitable and agreed that he had to go. 

And now Azmin is confronted with the same situation with the allegations of sexual impropriety with a woman who is not his wife. 

The YouTube re Anwar and Azmin’s antics at Bersih 3.0 had 600,000 hits within a few days of it being uploaded. Today it has over two million. 

These are numbers Anwar cannot ignore and I would hazard an educated guess that by now Anwar is also faced with the same pressure on the video re Azmin situation. You can line up all the usual suspect to back up Azmin position within PKR but there is no denying that if public opinion is to be considered, this is the time for Anwar to decide how PKR can be rid of Azmin.

He made a telling observation:

That Azmin and Anwar are leaders of PKR speak volumes of the maturity, or the lack of it, of those within PKR who have put up with these two leaders leading PKR from being the largest party within the opposition to become its weakest link at a time when Pakatan is facing its biggest challenge since its inception.

and he informs that for Anwar:

... there is no room for error, no room for friendship, no room for special consideration. Anwar only has time to do a surgical cut and rid PKR of Azmin once and for all, and then let PKR lick its wound and hope that he has done enough to save PKR from certain demise.

I once wrote I considered Azmin Ali as only a political midget whose greatest political achievement was to end Rosmah Mansoh's term as Chancellor of UNISEL earlier than scheduled, thus I would have like to conclude with an Amin to CT Ali's sound advice to Anwar, but alas, realistically speaking I doubt Anwar would, could ever get rid of Azmin, remembering the latter's 'magical hold' over the former wakakaka!