Pakatan capable of forming Perak govt
A DAP leader feels that Pakatan can capture at least 42 state seats to form the next state government.
Athi Shankar, FMT
IPOH: Pakatan Rakyat can win 38 to 42 state seats to form the next Perak government, declared DAP’s Tronoh assemblyman V Sivakumar.
The former Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker said based on reliable intelligence information, Pakatan was on the verge forming the state government with a two-thirds majoriy in the state’s 59-seat legislature.
Pakatan allies – DAP, PAS and PKR – mustered only 31 state seats against Barisan Nasional’s 28 seats in the 2008 general election.
The narrow Pakatan win, he said, had enabled BN to stage a coup via defections to capture the state government in early 2009.
Pakatan lost the state government when PKR assemblymen Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi of Behrang and Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu of Changkat Jering, and DAP Jelapang representative Hee Yit Foong defected and declared themselves as BN-friendly independents.
A year later, DAP’s Malim Nawar assemblyman Keshvinder Singh followed suit.
Sivakumar said people in Perak were still bitter with how BN’s took over the state.
He said issues like corruption and abuses of power would be the main reason behind the forecasted massive vote swing towards Pakatan.
“If we win with two-thirds, then we will see what BN is going to do,” he told a fund-raising dinner themed “Matram Nite – Dine With V Sivakumar” held here.
DAP’s Taiping MP and Pantai Remis assemblyman Nga Kor Min, Beruas MP and Sitiawan assemblyman Ngeh Koo Ham, and Buntong assemblyman A Siva Subramaniam, and PAS leaders Nizar Jamaluddin and Husam Musa were all present.
Sivakumar said Pakatan was confident that it could garner some 85% of ethnic Chinese voters, not less than 60% Indian votes and some 40% Malays not only in Perak, but across the Peninsula.
