The glue that holds Pakatan together

Bridget WelshPublished: Oct 11, 2012 9:38 AM | Updated: Oct 11, 2012 10:55 AM

COMMENT What keeps the Pakatan Rakyat together? The quick answer often given is the common search of political power.

While power frames the relationships between three disparate political parties - Islamist PAS, secular-committed DAP and the umbrella reform-oriented PKR of Anwar Ibrahim - it is not the glue of the opposition alliance...

COMMENT No, it's not the common search of political power that keeps Pakatan together, but the parties' shared moral compact.

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