ANWAR Ibrahim’s move to strengthen the Penang PKR leadership with national personalities is causing unease among state officials, who fear losing important posts in the state government.
Among those slated to take up top posts are party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, who was appointed strategic adviser to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng in January this year.
PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar’s name has also come up. The Lembah Pantai MP has been widely speculated to contest in Penang to defend her father’s old parliamentary seat, Permatang Pauh, although the party has made no official announcement.
I reckon there could be possibly a few reasons for such a move, namely:
(a) PKR (Pakatan) will lose Selangor to BN-PAS in GE-14? Additionally, as Penang is viewed as a strong Pakatan state, Anwar wants PKR to be a bigger part of the state government and not let DAP monopolise the state administration.
(b) Is there now a split between the Anwar and Azmin-Ali camps where Anwar relocates his family and supporter to his home state while Azmin Ali continues to politically slut around with BN and PAS in Selangor?
(c) Nurul Izzah is assessed as likely to lose her Lemah Pantai federal seat in GE-14 thus she will be shifting to a safer Permatang Pauh; besides, her mum has no interest in politics.
She could even be a future Penang CM or at least DCM if she contests a state seat.
(d) The Penang mainland is a better hunting ground for PKR?
e) dap manage pg badly, pkr have the responsibility to demonstrate what is good governance, as how they manage selangor, to their partners in pakatan.
ReplyDeletePKR is de facto led by a convicted sodomite but the party still can't run away from his family's control. The party's No 2 sucks PAS' cock while masturbating someone else's
DeleteDAP certainly needs severe tutoring on PKR's specialities
i am talking abt governance n all u could response is to insult pkr leaders, so cheap one la u dap supporter.
DeleteFor Nurul to be taken seriously as a main player in politics,she got to be more aggressive in her approach.No more acting like the baby in the family,especially she's a grown up and mother now.She got to go on the offensive and attack opponents,but in a smart way.Not the Rafizi or Tony Pua ways.These two are political morons.
ReplyDeleteNurul won Lembah Pantai with a slim majority in GE13 with 51.39% of 60,366 votes versus Raja Nong Chik who got 48.33%. PKR held Lembah Pantai with a majority of 1,847 votes.
ReplyDeletePKR's proportion of votes jumped by 23.23 percentage points in GE12 (2008), whilst UMNO's fell by 24.42 percentage points in that election.
In GE12, Nurul won by a majority of 2,895 votes versus Sharizat of UMNO/BN. There were 41,050 valid votes in Lembah Pantai in GE12.
However, in GE13 (2013) Nurul's (PKR's) proportion of votes dropped by 1.54 percentage points, whilst Raja Nong Chik's rose by 2.95 percentage points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembah_Pantai_(federal_constituency)
If this trend continues in addition to redlineation, it is likely that Lembah Pantai could tip back into UMNO/BN's hands.
Also, PKR won many state seats in Selangor by slim majorities, especially in areas with a large proportionof ethnic Malays, many of whom are PAS supporters who voted for PKR because PAS was in the Pakatan Rakyat back then.
However, now with PAS wanting to contest 44 or something like that out of the 56 state seats in Selangor, BN could win more seats due to three-cornered fights which would split the former Pakatan votes.
So cold comfort that Selangor could be back under BN after GE14.
As for Nurul in Penang, perhaps it would be best for PKR for the Anwar faction to get out of the way of the Azmin faction. Anwar is a Penangite after all.