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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Anwar confident Pakatan will win GE-13

Anwar confident Pakatan will win GE-13

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who escaped a brush with death during the July 9 Bersih rally, is confdent that the Pakatan Rakyat coalition that he leads is capable of wresting the federal government at general elections widely expected to held later this year or before April 2012.

"We have gained new momentum. If we can sustain and increase this level of support. There are huge possibilities we can make it, we will win," AP reported Anwar as saying.

Backfired

According to Anwar, the way Prime Minister Najib Razak handled the civilians rally for free and fair elections has stirred public anger and greater awareness of the long-entrenched electoral fraud in the country's system.

In particular, he pointed to the violent police crackdown Najib ordered against the rally, attended by between 50,000 to 100,000 Malaysians of all races. Police had fired tear gas and acid-laced water, detaining more than 1,600 people, injuring thousands and leaving one dead.

The police have also been accused of attempted murder, when Anwar along with other Pakatan and Bersih leaders including PAS president Hadi Awang and DAP's Lim Kit Siang were trapped in an underpass tunnel and shot at with more than a dozen teargas canisters.

"The tear gas alone could have killed us because of the confined space and there were so many of us. It is also extremely deplorable that the police aimed the canisters directly at the crowd and not above their heads," PKR vice N Surendran told Malaysia Chronicle.

Anwar hit his head on the road trying to avoid one of the canisters, while his bodyguard who shielded him was seriously injured. A police report on "atttempted murder" has been lodged by his party leaders.

Stronger than in 2008

Anwar also said Pakatan was in much better shape compared to 2008, when it shocked the ruling BN coalition by sweeping 5 of the country's 13 states and 47 per cent of all votes cast. Pakatan is an alliance of 3 parties - PKR, PAS and DAP.

Despite accusations that it was loose outfit without experience, Pakatan has managed to hold its own and a check with the financial reports confirmed by the Auditor General shows that PKR-led Selangor and DAP-led Penang are the two best managed states in the country.

Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the loss of a 5-decade political hegemony, Najib and his UMNO party have focused their efforts on a slew of conspiracies to rock and discredit Anwar and Pakatan.

The strategy has backfired due mainly to the people's preference to put their faith in the 64-year old Anwar, a former deputy prime minister and a hugely popular Malay grassroots leader.

"People are clearly clamoring for justice and democratic rule. The ruling clique is in the last stages of resisting at all cost but I don't think they can withstand the onslaught of the people and also the historical reality. Even the most authoritarian rule in the Middle East is changing," Anwar said.

- Malaysia Chronicle

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