One moment, a Prime Minister surprised roughly everyone when he suddenly proposed to form a parliamentary preference cabinet (PSC) to seek accord over electoral reforms, in tacit benefaction to a exhilarated direct spearheaded by Bersih 2.0.
But next impulse hardly 48 hours later he backtracked by observant which there is zero wrong with a present electoral system, as well as which he usually proposed a PSC since a agitators demanded for reforms.
Such flip flop coming from a flip-flop prone Premier Najib Razak should not have raised any eyebrow, if not for a lightning speed with which he made a reverse spin in apparent esteem to his emissary DPM Muhyiddin Yassin who publicly contradicted his trainer by observant which Malaysian elections have regularly been above board, as well as which a PMs proposed PSC is usually for a purpose of fine tuning a electoral process.
This open matter from Muhyiddin upon August 16, coming upon a heel of Najibs PSC proposal usually a day before is a slap upon a face of a latter.
GALLANT ATTEMPT AT ELECTORAL REFORM
When Najib announced a PSC proposal upon August 15, there was no mistaking his sincerity when he said:
The cabinet will discuss all electoral reforms which need to be implemented in sequence to achieve bipartisan agreement though any suspicion which there is manipulation by a government
Najib serve stressed which his administration department ! will not form a govern! ment unl ess it is indeed inaugurated by a people.
These have been words which clearly confess a participation of constructional flaws as well as which these flaws have been critical sufficient to aver a establishment of a parliamentary name committee. And Najibs avowed goal to seek accord as well as to govern usually if indeed inaugurated by a people is serve manifestation of a desire to right a wrong which has been long overdue for correction.
In a face of such gallant as well as assumingly critical try to restore some shine to our democracy to a approval of all decent disposed Malaysians, Muhyiddins adventurous counterbalance of his trainer roughly in a same exhale contingency have stunned many.
But what is even some-more intolerable is which Najib made an roughly evident U-turn so as to toe a line of his emissary when he most regurgitated what Muhyiddin pronounced about our electoral complement being pure as well as credible.
Speaking to a buka puasa duty upon August 17, Najib denied which a PSC proposal is an acknowledgment of any defect in our elections. He serve said:
We will improve a choosing process, if it is disputed.
We dont brawl it though to prove them, we will implement a changes to a system.
Such a doubtful matter does not befit a budding minister. If there is no fault, why reform? Making changes just since someone creates a complaint? Hasnt a Prime Minister a mount as well as a self-assurance of his own? Forming a PSC is a critical eventuality which occurs frequency as well as usually in a eventuality of a grave emanate which needs to be probed in to deeply by Parliament. It is a height of frivolity for a budding apportion to introduce such a solution to relieve complaints against an electoral complement which in his opinion is ideally sound.
Surely a man of a intelligence of a Prime Minister could not have meant what he pronounced forming a PSC just to silence critics.
FOR! CED TO M AKE U-TURN
Isnt it viewable which a PM has succumbed to a stronger will of a tough line DPM?
Lo! oking ba ck over Najibs two-year helm of a nation, a single cannot help though lament which it is a premiership which started off with a crash though looking increasingly like finale with a humour not unlike a trail trodden by his sore duck predecessor Abdullah Badawi. His grand reforms sounded correct - political reform underneath a 1Malaysia ensign to unite a fragmented people, as well as mercantile mutation by dismissal of race-based protectionism to revitalise a dormant economy though a series of shelter in a face of recalcitrance from a conservative coterie within his own celebration Umno have probably reduced his so-called mutation to mere sloganeering exercises.
In a surrounded by of such disappointments, his sudden curtsy to a most yearned for electoral reform was seen as a strategic pierce to recover a middle ground which would otherwise be irretrievably mislaid by his ill-advised hang-up of a a Bersih 2.0 movement, in particular, a cruel as well as all undue crackdown upon a July 9 Bersih rally.
All is not lost, however, if Najib can organise sufficient courage to re-assert his budding ministerial authority to pull by some meaningful reforms to an choosing complement which has mislaid all credibility. After all, a budding apportion is fully empowered by a Constitution to engage or boot his cabinet members, as well as any pierce of his towards replacement of constitutionality will certainly be upheld by not usually a right-minded coterie within his own celebration though will additionally be exuberantly applauded by all decent-minded Malaysians together with opposition members.
HONOURABLE PLACE IN HISTORY
Correcting a wrongs of a flawed electoral complement need not be all disadvantages to his party, as a pour out of goodwill as well as apply oneself which he will accrue by such a march of movement (which will interpret in to votes in due co! urse) ma y some-more than equivalent a anticipated loss of ill-gotten votes.
Besides, win or loose, Najib will have earned for himself an fair place in Malaysian history as a budding mini! ster who restored approved choosing to his people.
He still has dual years to prove his mettle, as choosing is not due until midst 2013. Why play away a possibility to travel upon a right side of history by rushing in to a reckless choosing which is universally cursed as astray as well as flawed, as well as risk losing everything for himself, his celebration as well as his people?
Courtesy of Bonology.com Politically Incorrect Buzz & Buzz
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