Kit Siang: Is Pakatan still relevant?
The DAP leader calls for an urgent meeting of the PR Leadership Council to find out whether the coalition is in its end game.
(Free Malaysia Today) – DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang has called for an “urgent meeting” of the Pakatan Rakyat Leadership Council to find out whether the alliance “is still relevant to the hopes and expectations of Malaysians”.
In his latest blog posting, he suggested that the members of the council take the opportunity to meet during breaks in the parliament session that begins tomorrow.
He said there was no denying that the Selangor Menteri Besar controversy had caused the alliance to suffer its worst crisis and most serious loss of public confidence since its formation six years ago.
“The jury is still out whether PR can recover” before the 14th general election, he added.
He said PR was lucky that Selangor Barisan Nasional was too weak to exploit the situation. “But the next time,” he warned, “PR is not going to be so lucky.”
He said DAP, PKR and PAS must address the “critical” question of whether PR “is capable of closing ranks or is at at the stage of its end game.”
He said the PR leadership council was “virtually crippled” during the MB crisis by the breakdown of its consensus principle.
