What are the meanings of a victory?
After the expected victory nominally by Mansor Othman of PKR there should be some room to ponder over the meanings of the victory especially to explore the potentials of what the victory may mean for assisting the democratisation of the country.
The victory is said to be `nominal’ for the candidate because for all who can have a close enough look at Mansor’s candidature the candidate is so fully `packaged’ that his personality hardly shine through the campaign! His Yale Background did not even afford him to speak to a open/mixed crowd. His intellectual capacity from his career as a social science researcher did not merit him to argue his case in an open debate organsied by the civil society. His party minders have ensure that the voters only see him minimally by himself-he is always escourted and only appear on stage along other `big guns’ from the Pakatan Rakyat. So will he be a party man or his own person in the future?
May be one can have a look at what the party can offer. As a avowed reform party PKR has some how attracted a mixed crowd to its `stable’ of elected representatives. It cannot even know when a next rep were to commit some serious misdemeanor that may damage its image/cause. The Perak crisis is not one that it can conveniently blame entirely on the evil design of the opponent. With such a outlook the party need to struggle hard to keep up its reform mission, while the country do need such a reform after half a century of stifling authoritarian rule.
