Political secrets of Malaysia

MM Online - Guan Eng: PAS no longer a real opposition party (extracts):

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 1 — Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar’s exit from PAS showed that the Islamist party has deviated from its original political course, DAP’s Lim Guan Eng claimed today.

The DAP secretary-general further claimed that Mahfuz left PAS as the latter wanted to oppose Barisan Nasional (BN) whereas the Islamist party “secretly worked with Umno.”

“He left PAS to be in the Opposition, so it is clear that Mahfuz wants to ensure that there is a strong Opposition front against BN,” he said.

The Penang chief minister added that PAS was no longer a serious Opposition party as even rival Umno praised it as an example of a “good Opposition” party.

In Malaysian politics the secret is there is NO secret (ie. every 'secret' is known), wakakaka.

We know the secret that PAS has allied itself with UMNO for whatever reasons it might have. 

Some say PAS has a long-term plan, meaning a really very 'strategic' plan, to come to full power in Putrajaya one day, and that its first step is to cooperate with UMNO, consolidate whilst waiting patiently, before it politically and finally kills UMNO, its traditional and indeed its real enemy.

Some say PAS or rather Hadi Awang dislikes working with non-Muslims, considering them as 'unclean' so it prefers to work with an UMNO which is better at ketuanan Melayu or Muslim than any other Malay party.

Some say that PAS now without Chinese support (previously secured via DAP) cannot hope to win power by itself to enter Putrajaya. So it waits and waits and is prepared to keep on waiting until it can once again (in a future) manipulate Chinese support for its party.

But the open secret is that PAS is now in 'secret alliance' with UMNO, wakakaka.

On the other side, just as for PAS, with Pribumi (Mahathir's racist party) in alliance with Pakatan or if we want to be more specific, the DAP, there is also an open secret that Mahathir wants to oust Najib solely for his son Mukhriz's future.

There is also another open secret, wakakaka, whether Mahathir will make Mukhriz re-join UMNO after the Najib obstacle has been removed remains to be seen.

It's also an open secret, wakakaka again, that Pakatan especially DAP welcomes Mahathir with open arms as Lim Kit Siang sees Mahathir as the vital force in making an important Pakatan beachhead into the Heartland, whose votes are necessary for a strong passage into Putrajaya.

It's also another open secret that of late, Mahathir the 'battle-tank', to make the required beachhead into the Heartland, might have become the 'battered crank' with his increasing faux pas (wrong steps).

I'll just mention 3 of his recent (and repetitive) political errors or errors unfavourable to Pakatan's political advantage:

(a) he offended the Malay rulers (Johor and Selangor) which in Malaysian politics is a No-No. He has just repeated those offensive errors by (i) viciously execrating the future residents of Forest City in JB as, he hopes, monkeys and baboons, and

(ii) making a sarcastic remark about 'Bugis' in his recent closing address of the Pribumi Party assembly.

(b) tok-kok a la volte-face on issues that he previously as PM was responsible for, eg. (i) promising to restore press freedom when he shut down 3 newspapers in 1987 and jailed most of his political enemies, (ii) promising to restore judiciary independence when he hammered the judges in 1988 when a few including the Lord President Tun Abas were sacked, (iii) embracing BR1M when he had earlier condemned it as wasteful, etc etc etc. 

(c) he showed his gross INsincerity when he finally made a general apology but within a few hours asserted that apology of his did NOT mean he was wrong, wakakaka. Apart from his short-lived apology which was insincere in the first place, he continued to blame everyone under the sun for his numerous costly blunders.

Lim Kit Siang has had his medical operations to thank for his embarrassing silence on Mahathir's recent numerous faux pas.

Of course I wish Uncle Lim the best in his health and a speedy recovery, but I reckon he has made a real boo-boo in allying the DAP with such a man, which may possibly turn GE14 into another 1999 for DAP or in particular Lim Kit Siang himself.

Kit Siang and the late Karpal were punished kaukau by the Chinese in 1999 for going to bed with PAS - both unprecedentedly lost their federal seats and remained in the cold for 5 long years

Will Kit Siang suffer the same 1999 fate for going to bed with former arch-foe Mahathir and his racist Pribumi party?

Looking broadly across the field, which coalition (secret or otherwise, wakakaka) do you think has obtained the best political bargain:

... an UMNO 'secretly' (wakakaka) allied with a racist PAS (Hadi Awang) who couldn't help but reveal his true self in considering non-Muslims as 'unclean' and unfit to be in the Malaysian cabinet and who earlier while in Pakatan threatened the Penang State government of a possible 'May 13' if 3rd-tier local elections were held, probably for fear his PAS people won't be elected as town councillors if local elections exists,

 or

DAP Youth had earlier said it'd not work together with any political party that practices racist policies, such as the newly-formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia

What now DAPSY?

... a Pakatan allied to another racist party Pribumi whose leader Mahathir recently gathered unto himself all the political blunders, woes and contradictions but failing to divest himself of his known notoriety as a former reprehensible intolerant dictator who had the 'Minus Touch', where his big wasteful projects, Forex, Maminco, Makuwasa, Perwaja, Proton, MAS, etc turned to dust at taxpayers' expense (note: NOT 'Midas Touch', wakakaka?).