PKR’s grand strategy?
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Blue-eyed Boy is making his move, or at least indicating his grand strategy – c’mon, I wanna hear some thunderous applause lah, wakakaka.
Many suspect Azmin Ali wants to be MB Selangor. I have to say I have my doubts in this regard, not that he doesn’t (he actually does), but he can’t be MB Selangor if he wants to be near the PM spot, starting perhaps with the Home Ministry, no doubt to control the Police and its dreaded SB, wakakaka.
Yes, we may assume that our dearest Blue-eyed Boy wants to be in the federal cabinet of a Pakatan federal government and to head a very powerful ministry, Home Affairs, before he becomes the PM (as he may be fantasizing, wakakaka).
Thus he has to make some sacrifices, to wit, forego the position of MB of Selangor, because Article 43 of the Malaysian Constitution won’t allow him to be both, ie. MB Selangor and PM Home Minister.
And how do I know he wants to take over Hishamuddin’s place? Read on, wakakaka.
That’s right, ADUNs who are also MP cannot have it both ways, that is, by continuing to be ADUNs and at the same time, federal ministers or deputy ministers. They have to choose between being a federal minister (or deputy minister) or an ADUN.
Obviously, senior party leaders who want to be MBs or CMs or State Exco members have to be ADUNs in the first place. And if they are federal ministers they won’t be allowed to hold on to their ADUN positions, and consequently no MB or CM hat to wear.
Thus, as I mentioned previously, if Lim Guan Eng wants to continue being CM of Penang, and most Penangites want him to, then he can’t be a federal minister, full stop!
But of course he can be ADUN/CM of Penang as well as an ordinary federal MP in which case he can serve in both State and Federal Parliaments. But in participating as both a state and also a federal representative, he cannot be a federal minister. Thus if Lim GE wants to be a federal minister, he can kiss goodbye to his CM job and Ayer Putih ADUN position …
… which I suspect is a situation ‘someone’ wakakaka is hoping and hinting/pushing for.
According to sweetie Selena Tay in her Free Malaysia Today article titled Pakatan’s ‘shadow cabinet’ list, a so-called (non-existent*) ‘shadow minister’ could/might have ‘hinted’ to Sweetie that under a new Pakatan federal government, the proposed Foreign Minister(s) would probably be Kamarudin Jaffar (PAS) or Lim Guan Eng (DAP) or Elizabeth Wong (PKR), with a couple (of the trio) becoming deputies.
* ta’ada shadow cabinet maka mana ada shadow minister – real bayang adalah wakakaka
It’s a joke of a suggestion, and you may guess where or who that so-called self-appointed ‘shadow minister’ had been. For a start, none of the trio proposed has shown any specific inclination towards foreign affairs, though of course there’s no denying they can play the role.
Secondly, Eli Wong is more into environmental affairs and therefore should be provided a ministerial position in the appropriate sector, Environment.
Kamaruddin Jaafar, OTOH, is a very close buddy of The Great One – you know, MCKK, UMNO (wakakaka), ISA-ed together, then left UMNO in 1999 (not sure whether he left voluntarily or was ejected out like Anwar?), had in his UMNO days stuck really close to Anwar when the latter was the DPM, and was said to have been assigned by Anwar to some business roles, the lot!
While Anwar’s devotees prepared a party (KeADILan, then PKR) as a platform to fight for his release from prison, Kamaruddin joined PAS in (I think) 1999 and stood successfully as a PAS MP in Tumpat in 1999, 2004 and 2008. I believe he was the UMNO MP in that same constituency. Since then, he had a meteoric rise in PAS and even became the Party’s Sec-Gen in 2004.
