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Friday, March 20, 2015

DAP vs PAS - Who Suckered Whom?

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng says PAS’s push for hudud has become a matter of trust and honesty in Pakatan Rakyat. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 20, 2015.DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng says PAS’s push for hudud has become a matter of trust and honesty in Pakatan Rakyat. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 20, 2015.

  • DAP leaders angry, feel betrayed by PAS' move to pass hudud
  • PAS' hudud has brought a step closer to the break up of Pakatan Rakyat
  • central executive committee meeting to discuss position vis-à-vis PAS
  • national, state leaders to express views privately or publicly,” Lim
  • Lim slammed PAS leaders for their “dishonesty, deceit and treachery” 
  • Such  betrayal by PAS ..may have also sealed the fate of Pakatan
  • any remaining non-Muslim support for PAS has completely disappeared
  • PAS throw its lot with Umno despite knowing ..hudud jeopardise Pakatan
2. Here is a comment on this issue by Norman Fernandez, former Deputy Chairman DAP Johor.  The comment is repoduced in full.
DAP has announced that they will convene a party leadership meeting on Monday to evaluate its future with Pakatan Rakyat in the wake of Kelantan PAS state government tabling the Shariah Criminal Code 11 1993 (Amendment 2015).

DAP leaders are now falling over each other by denouncing PAS as having "betrayed","back stabbed", "untrustworthy". 

If you are expecting DAP to announce its withdrawal from Pakatan Rakyat, that is not going to happen. 

You must understand that DAP who hoodwinked the Chinese to support PAS is now totally pissed off that DAP in turn has been fooled by PAS. In fact the Chinese must be feeling the same with DAP.

What will culminate from the meeting will be nothing
 more than issuance of a terse statement and declaration of suspension of cooperation between DAP and PAS. Nothing more than that. 

In any event, DAP leadership will simply take the cue from DAP Sarawak who has suspended all further ties and cooperation with PAS. In fact DAP Youth (DAPSY) has already announced that they are freezing any further cooperation with PAS.

DAP knows that to antogonise PAS further by walking out of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition could make PAS retaliate by making PAS move closer to UMNO and bring about a strategic alliance with UMNO. 

Such an alliance could easily bring the fall of the PKR led Pakatan Rakyat Selangor state government. That could expeditiously happen if PKR foolishly were to take sides with DAP.  

PKR will not risk it particularly when it remembers how PAS Exco's stood by PKR and saved the PKR led Selangor government during the Selangor- Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim crisis.  

In fact, UMNO who is so desperate to take over Selangor by hook or crook will be even prepared to give the Menteri Besar's post in a PAS-UMNO unity government to PAS. Thus, it can with certainty be said that PKR however upset they may be now with PAS, for their own survival is not going to join or support DAP and kick out PAS from Pakatan Rakyat.

All this leaves DAP with little option but  for it to leave Pakatan Rakyat  just like how it walked away from Barisan Alternative. That, DAP do not have the gumption and the cojones to do so. In fact, DAP risk losing it all being completely out Pakatan Rakyat if it chose to leave Pakatan Rakyat and as such would for its own political expedience will chose to be remain in a fractured Pakatan Rakyat.

So, DAP realising that it has little option and the political cards are all stacked against it, will eat crow and swallow their own spit by announcing that it is suspending cooperation with PAS, following DAP Sarawak. Also, by continuing to be in Pakatan Rakyat but having no cooperation with PAS will allow DAP to work quietly with selective PAS leaders, the "Erdogan Faction" in PAS and the PASMA bloc.

Having deceived and hoodwinked the Chinese to support and vote PAS, and recognizing the possibility of the backlash from the Chinese, DAP want to be seen as showing some modicum of bravado publicly. What easier way to fool the Chinese (again) by announcing suspension of cooperation with PAS  but quietly working with PAS on the sides.

In any event, the Chinese must not be fooled again !

Norman Fernandez
* Norman Fernandez was the former DAP Johor State Deputy Chairman and former member of DAP.

My comments : Everyone is using everyone. When the Pakatan (DAP, PAS) first hoisted Anwar Ibrahim on their shoulders in 1998, it was a marriage of convenience.

Earlier during the APU (Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah) Semangat 46, PAS and DAP worked together. It was always a marriage of convenience.

DAP has always known that one day it will have to go on its own.

PAS has always known that one day it will have to go on its own.

Even now the so called UMNO-PAS cooperation is a marriage of convenience. When both sides are strong enough, they will go on their own.

The big question mark is WHEN? When should DAP break apart from PAS? I think the time is now.

DAP is the strongest opposition party with 38 seats in Parliament. They can easily take this up to 45 - 50.  More and more Malays are saying now (including UMNO Malays) that they feel more comfortable with DAP's ideology - secular, modern, scientific. If the DAP recruits capable Malay professionals and fields them succesfully as MPs, then the DAP can go beyond 50 or even 60 seats in Parliament.

Should the DAP break from PAS? Yes they should. People are fed up with PAS. Even the Malays.  Malays are also fed up with UMNO.

The PKR, minus Anwar Ibrahim is looking more attractive to many Malays. Wan Azizah and her daughter Nurul Izzah are actually lacklustre - no real heavyweights. But they project an image of angels of mercy.  On top of that PKR young Turks like Rafizi and Azmin Ali are becoming popular among all PKR members and the public at large.

A DAP - PKR combination will still be able to swing the votes. But minus PAS? This is where it gets complicated. 

The DAP can break with PAS but what about PKR? Can PKR break with PAS? The Sungai Buloh guy will say no. I heard the Sg Buloh guy is in contact with Mr Clueless (or his people) - even from inside prison. 

Look at it this way folks - if UMNO can cooperate with PAS, why cant there be an UMNO-PAS-PKR axis?  Not impossible.  I think Helen Ang was right from the beginning.

If the DAP had sufficient Malay and Indian numbers, it would be able to stand fully on its own.   
 

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