YOURSAY ‘The man who caused the death of PAS is none other than Hadi.’

 

PAS' pro-Pakatan faction stares at defeat in polls?

Ferdtan: I don’t agree with the simplistic argument that DAP’s pressure has helped Abdul Hadi Awang’s ulama faction win in the party election against the progressives.

 

If PAS members were to be influenced by such a stand from another party, DAP, then this shows that PAS members are not matured for they vote based on external factors instead of internal party issues.

 

If the progressives faction cannot win, it is solely due to the lack of support from their own party members, and not due to purported adverse actions by DAP. Do the progressives in PAS have to be babysat by DAP in order to win the party election? Obviously not.

 

That said, politics can make strange bedfellows. Two world wars due to its expediency had been fought along that way.

 

So it may not be surprising to some that this may be the case in the next GE election. PAS under Hadi Awang will not be with Pakatan Rakyat; that is a fact as there is too much bad blood between them and the coalition partners.

 

PAS may remain as independent or join BN. PasMa may join PKR and DAP in Pakatan. Then again with the fight in Umno between former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad and PM Najib Razak, Umno may also split into two.

 

Will there be a possibility the defeated faction in Umno may join Pakatan to take on the old Umno-BN (with or without PAS)?

 

Jiminy Qrikert: This is excellent news indeed. When the ulama rout the progressives and seize absolute control in PAS, PKR and DAP have no choice but to kick PAS out of Pakatan.

 

Not to do so will simply mean that PKR and DAP are more interested in capturing Putrajaya regardless of the consequences of installing a ‘mad mullah’ party in the federal government by default.

 

If this is the case, then we know it is time to dump Pakatan altogether. The self-destruction of Pakatan is triggered by a mad mullah. Umno-BN will be laughing if this comes to pass.

 

Final Count Down: Every Pakatan supporters should be rejoicing. It is a blessing in disguise. If the moderates got a trouncing from the ulama it becomes a 'river of no return' to the defeated moderates. If they chose to remain in PAS there is no future for them.

 

The obvious thing for them to do is to form an alternative religious political party which is Pakatan friendly or dissolve themselves into PKR (likely choice) or DAP (very unlikely). In the long run, they will reap the fruits of their sound decision to break away from PAS.

 

Proarte: What disgusts me is that DAP never seems to learn.

 

In its mad rush for power, party leader Lim Kit Siang mooted the  crazy idea of working with Mahathir, the very man whose 22-year tenure saw the systematic destruction of rule of law in Malaysia, human rights abuses, grand-scale corruption, disenfranchisement of the people of Sabah through 'Project M' and appalling environmental destruction.

 

DAP was left licking its wounded pride when Mahathir rejected its overtures to him. DAP needs to do some soul searching and rediscover or maybe even redefine its 'permanent principles'.

 

Anonymous_3f4b: I agree totally with Proarte. As some politicians put it, in the recent spat between DAP and PKR, DAP is populist and PKR is opportunist.

 

Not discounting Anwar Ibrahim, who is hydra-headed, they saw it fit to team up with PAS a religious party whose underlying rationale for its existence is its Islamic ideology bent on an Islamic state governed by the ulama.

 

All parties tied by a fragile string sewn by Anwar with no common steadfast ideology and principles in governance, economic development, security and national advancement other than to criticise the government of the day.

 

We can see them coming together superficially for a by-election but continuing their distrust of one another after that.

 

They offer no real vision and hope for a better country, except being viewed as a hypocritical opportunistic ad-hoc coalition for short-term gains.

 

JD Lovrenciear: The time is drawing rather close for the three parties - DAP, PKR and PAS to go their separate ways.

 

This will be God-sent for Umno and its MCA and MIC partners. This is what happens when we lose sight of the big picture. 

 

Vijay47: If Pakatan must lose before it can win, so be it. Never again must PAS be trusted to be an honest partner in the coalition's mission and should the saner, more progressive minds in that party be defeated, that is a price Pakatan must pay.

 

Gone are the days when PAS could hold DAP and PKR to ransom. Gone are the days when PAS could dangle Putrajaya as the carrot upon which the other two allies had to tolerate PAS's excesses and betrayals.

 

Too many times have you been riding on the backs of the other two's generosity and forgiving nature.

 

Hadi, the time is long overdue when traitors like you are thrown overboard from the same boat that your Bugis friends are aimlessly floating around.

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