What a ‘unity government’ really means
So, apologies for being away for so long! It’s taken a while to get back into the swing of things, and I admit, between (thoroughly) savouring new experiences and the sprawl that local politics and issues have become, it’s been hard to get back into the game.
But time to return!
There are a million and one really important things to write about. For now, I just wanted to do some quick words on the issue surrounding PAS and this unity talks business.
I’ve defended PAS more times than I can remember on this blog, and with good reason I reckon. I’ve also repeated ad nauseum how PAS really is extremely far from a monolithic party – an observation repeated consistently over the last few weeks with talks of the Erdogan vs. Ulama factions and so on.
I admit, the PAS elections did not go quite the way I hoped (wonder what would’ve happened if Mat Sabu didn’t contest that Deputy Presidency), but that’s democracy.
What I wanted to say mostly is this: the reason no one has been able to elaborate intelligently about the idea of a unity government is simple – it doesn’t make sense.
