Azmin Ali sabotaging Pakatan Harapan says PKR insider

“To turn against the agreement could show that he has intentions to break Pakatan Harapan. There is no other way to look at this because PKR has broken a promise that is made to their Opposition colleagues,” says the PKR analyst.

(Hornbill Unleashed) – The  “infighting” in PKR – linked to the Sarawak Elections where the ‘culprits’ who are messing up the seats – have left its party president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s hands tied in the matter, says a PKR analyst.

The analyst, wanting to remain anonymous, says that the “tussle” over seats in the Sarawak Election between PKR and DAP will not end in on a good note as they may have indirectly helped Barisan Nasional (BN) secure seats.

Although having concluded and assigned seats to respective parties, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali who was present at the meeting and had signed the agreement now turns his back on the reached decisions.

“Azmin and gang looks as though they are up to something when he decided to turn against an agreement after agreeing to contest in the respective seats allocated to PKR,” says the analyst.

Azmin and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng have been accused of straying from the seat allocations agreed upon by the Sarawak DAP and PKR chapters.

“To turn against the agreement could show that he has intentions to break Pakatan Harapan. There is no other way to look at this because PKR has broken a promise that is made to their Opposition colleagues,” says the PKR analyst.

The analyst says that Opposition leaders who are allowed into Sarawak are mainly PKR politicians.

“If you look at it, why has not one PKR politician been barred from entering Sarawak? Could it be because they are Azmin’s people?

“To put it harshly, the only reason to why this is happening is that Azmin is the sole instigator and he is in control of the Opposition’s position in Sarawak,” says the analyst, obviously not in Azmin’s camp of supporters.

The analyst also points out that PKR has made the wrong move to fight over the five overlapping seats as the seats had been deemed ‘unwinnable’.

“They should have by all means avoid three-cornered-fights in order to cause more dent on BN. Because these seats are speculated to be unwinnable, it looks as though BN only needs to sit back and win the seats effortlessly,” the analyst says.

Meanwhile, PKR Kelana Jaya MP Wong Chen who was assigned to assist the Murum seat running up to the elections says he is not sure who is ultimately responsible for the Sarawak three-corner-fights between DAP and PKR.

“A three-cornered fight is madness because it guarantees victory to BN.

“I am now of the view that this may be an intentional plot to cause a rift in Pakatan. As such, I will not be part of this madness and I have instructed my office to stand down.

“I cannot with good conscience, support any act that breaks Pakatan and at the same time deliver a seat victory to BN,” says Wong.

Lawyer Abun Sui who is the PKR Murum division chairman had earlier accepted the leadership council meeting’s decision to no long contest until recently deciding against it.

“I would like to wish Abun Sui all the best in his Murum campaign. We have gone through a lot together. I disagree with his decision to contest but at the same time, I fully understand why he did it.

Wong also agrees that it was a very hard blow to have been told that PKR negotiators had conceded the Murum seat to DAP.

“But I don’t blame DAP for this. DAP must have argued their case. However, I take the bigger picture view that once the parties have agreed and shook hands on it, nobody should renege on the agreement,” says Wong.

He adds that to U-turn on the seat agreement is tantamount to an attempt to sabotage Pakatan’s future as a coalition.

“There is a bigger issue at stake here than who gets to contest what. At stake for PKR is our honour to our promises, that our word is our bond,” Wong adds saying that the focus should be on on the battle ahead with BN in Sarawak.

“I hope to gain greater clarity soon. Perhaps a fact-finding post mortem is best after the elections,” he says.