Call to set up a Pakatan shadow cabinet
(Free Malaysia Today) – Pakatan Rakyat should form and operate a shadow cabinet if the coalition was serious to grab federal power in the next general election, an academician said today.
Dr Sivamurugan Pandian from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) said the shadow cabinet would also exhibit Pakatan’s credentials as a government-in-waiting.
By putting a shadow cabinet into practice, he said Pakatan could conduct a probation test run on the capability and ability of its parliamentarians in handling ministerial positions in future.
He said it would generate interest among Pakatan parliamentarians on particular ministerial duties and functions.
He added that Pakatan could breed and develop knowledgeable and skilled parliamentarians to assume ministerial roles in future.
“If Pakatan is serious to take over Putrajaya, it should form its shadow cabinet immediately,” said Sivamurugan, the deputy dean of USM School of Social Sciences.
He suggested that Pakatan’s shadow cabinet perform according to the coalition’s common policy framework (CPF).
By demonstrating its political conviction to implement the CPF, he said Pakatan could boost public confidence to effect a change in the federal government in the next general election.
