YOURSAY | ‘PAS contesting the by-elections basically means giving away the two seats to BN.’
Kim Quek: PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said PAS would fight tooth and nail against Umno in the two by-elections (Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar), but how does he propose to do that when PAS has betrayed the former Pakatan Rakyat and its party chief Abdul Hadi Awang has also publicly cosying up to PM Najib Razak and siding with the latter on the 1MDB issue?
PAS appears to be suffering from schizophrenia - flip-flopping between pro-Umno and anti-Umno. As sure as the sun rises, PAS will meet crushing defeat in both constituencies which have formidable non-Malay voters - with or without three-cornered fights.
Pakatan Harapan should logically delegate Amanah to stand in one of the constituencies, with PKR taking up the other. Treat this as a warm-up exercise and put the new partnership into action so as to gear up for the real battle ahead.
Kuasa Rakyat: There are those urging one seat to PAS and the other to Pakatan Harapan. They cannot be so blind, can they?
Otherwise they are either PAS members or more likely PKR members. PAS under Hadi is now all about politics the Umno way and nothing about religious conviction. Hadi now spews the same racism as Umno.
As rightly discerned by many, PAS equals Umno. The rakyat must reject PAS the same way we reject Umno. Amanah must go for both seats. Their chances of winning both are very good.
Ferdtan: Since PAS is so keen to contest both by-elections, Amanah must do the same for various reasons. It doesn’t matter what the result will be. If not, then Amanah may forfeit its right later on when the general election is called.
There is no way a coalition should give up a fight for a non-coalition party like PAS. With Amanah contesting, the other component parties like PKR and DAP have no choice but to close ranks to show solidarity. Otherwise there is no Pakatan.
Amanah will gain a lot in these two by-elections, a sort of learning curve to prepare for the real war in the next general election. Amanah will have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
As the new party is untested and have not gained wide recognition, the exposure and publicity gained from campaigning in both by-elections will benefit Amanah immensely to project itself as a branded national party.
Also this way, PAS will be cornered in the three-cornered fight. PKR from the Azmin Ali faction have no choice but to lend support to Amanah instead of PAS if he doesn’t want to be seen as a traitor to Pakatan.
There is no such thing as losing as both seats were originally held by BN.
The Analyser: Insecure Malaysians are so desperate for a win they have lost sight of reality. Everything is stacked against DAP, PKR and Amanah so that they cannot possibly win. Yet you are still burbling on about a win.
What will be the result if any of those three parties win? You will have another useless member in parliament representing a party with no policies.
All he/she will ever be is another token example of the races and religions which keep Malaysia divided.
If any of those three parties stand and lose, then that's it. That party will be screwed for all time. Neither PKR nor Amanah will ever recover.
DAP will retreat to its Chinese stronghold in Penang and leave itself wide open to the predations of Umno. Your egos will not be able to stand the loss and so you will do what you have done in Sarawak - try to save face.
But the electorate will know better. They will know that twice they had put their faith in opposition parties, and twice they were let down.
My suggestion is don’t stand in these two by-elections. Fall back and regroup and try to create parties and coalitions with some meaning to the electorate and less meaning to yourselves.
FairMind: On the contrary, the opposition parties should use these two constituencies as a test bed to gauge the support of Malaysians for the respective parties. The two constituencies have no bearing to the ruling government anyway.
When the actual GE comes in 2018, I am very sure PAS will compete against the other opposition parties or join Umno. Better use this opportunity as a barometer for the next GE.
Pemerhati: The person who is likely to be most worried about the results of the two forthcoming by-elections is Najib.
If the BN candidates lose badly, the loss will be interpreted by Umno warlords as being due to Najib’s 1MDB scandal. They may then decide to take action to remove him as they would fear that his continued leadership would result in BN losing the forthcoming general election.
It would be beneficial for Najib and BN if there is a straight fight between BN and PAS because then there is a chance that BN might win as the non-Malay vote this time will not go to PAS.
But if Amanah of Pakatan Harapan steps into the fray and makes it a three-cornered fight then Pakatan Harapan might win because they might get a substantial chunk of the Malay and non-Malay vote as a result of their disgust with Najib’s alleged massive theft of billions of their money and PAS’ alleged obsession with chopping off people’s limbs and its alleged betrayal of its PKR and DAP partners in Pakatan Rakyat, where its actions showed that it was allegedly Umno’s Trojan horse.
SSDhaliwal: Indeed, the opposition has no obligation towards PAS anymore since by its own admission, it is now part of the third force.
Beside PAS’ constant flirting and courting of Umno does little to douse sentiments that PAS is looking to form an alliance with them now or sometime in the future.
Anticommunalist: As PAS had clearly forged a new pact alliance with Ikatan, it is only empowered to dictate terms with Ikatan regarding who to stand and who not to.
PAS did not attend the Pakatan Harapan formation on Sept 22, 2015, and neither did it sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Pakatan Harapan, so why are they now calling the shots with a coalition that they have no formal relationship with?
In fact, Hadi must now test the open relationship he enjoys with Najib by demanding that Umno makes way for PAS.
My vote will go for Amanah. If Pakatan Harapan refrains from contesting in these by-elections then in the coming GE, I will abstain from voting.
Mosquitobrain: BN-Umno is the incumbent for both seats, but only with slim margins. There's nothing for Pakatan Harapan to lose but to fight.
Pakatan Harapan need proper planning here. It has to anticipate PAS or maybe a BN-friendly Independent will join in the fray as 'spoilers' thus causing not a three, but four-cornered fight in favour of BN.
Wong Fei Hoong: PAS standing there basically means giving away two seats to BN. That's what Hadi wants. No headache for Najib. -Mkini
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