PKR’s promise of autonomy to East Malaysia
KTemoc Konsiders
On Sunday Dr Wan Azizah, de jure (wakakaka) president of PKR upped the ante in/for her husband’s attempt to secure political power in the next election.
While dear Wan Azizah is the de jure president of her political party, her hubby, Anwar Ibrahim, is the de facto leader.
Oh, BTW, in the above two sentences, kaytee believes he may be providing better English lesson than those English teachers contracted by the Education Minister at the considerable cost of RM270 million.
By now a student would have learned the difference between de jure and de facto, wakakaka, and realized the influence of Latin in the development of English and the continuing indispensability of the so-called ‘dead’ language.
Also, the student would have learned:
- upped the ante
- to secure political power
… wakakaka, and of course the colloquial ‘hubby’.
Now, why have I brought in a term used in the card game of poker, to wit, ‘up (or) raise the ante’?
Incidentally, ‘up the ante’ means ‘to increase the risks in a situation in order to achieve a better result’, where ‘ante’ of course is an amount of money that must be paid into the poker pool before the game can continue.
Previously, PKR or rather Anwar Ibrahim had promised that should he become PM, Sarawak and Sabah would receive 20% royalties from the revenue obtained from oil-gas fields in their respective state, instead of the current 5% that each state (including Terengganu and Kelantan in Peninsula) is receiving. That in itself was already an upping of the ante, namely, from 5% to 20%. Now, PKR is proposing more.
Incidentally, I read in a news media’s interactive section some comments abruptly dismissing the proposed 20% royalties and berating the federal government and PKR for even taking any of the Sarawak and Sabah’s oil-gas revenue, obviously comments made by aggrieved Sarawakians and/or Sabahans. This is an interesting viewpoint which I will touch upon soon – just keep it in mind.
As the two East Malaysian states have been perceived as the key to control of federal power, and thus UMNO’s soft underbelly (now, now, no salacious comment please), obviously Anwar sees his strategy for occupying Putrajaya as winning the majority of seats in Sarawak and Sabah, which Najib termed as his ‘fixed deposit’.
