January 15, 2012
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Drought of brand brand brand brand new ideas threatens Pakatan's Putrajaya bid
ANALYSIS More than a year upon after unveiling a Buku Jingga book of reforms, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) appears to have moved small from where it was during a prior gathering in Penang.
Eschewing bold moves for refried ideas laid out in a Buku Jingga, PR looked less a forward-looking pact during a third gathering in Alor Star yesterday than a single calm to offer old booze in brand brand brand brand new bottles.
This was most transparent in PR's decision to repackage four policy thrusts from a 13-month-old master devise as "Tawaran Jingga", accompanied by well-rehearsed speeches touting a past successes of opposition-led states.
While PR might have been buoyed by a surprise acquittal of a leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, small of this renewed effect as well as optimism went in to solution pass issues still plaguing a sometimes querulous alliance.
Elephants in a room
Still hanging over a antithesis similar to a Sword of Damocles is a question of a shadow Cabinet, which Anwar promised to set up in 2009 whilst stumping during a Bukit Gantang by-election.
PR has backpedalled from a oath ever since, citing a lack of resources as a reason why it 
cannot form a together Cabinet. Also going unanswered was a! hudud q uestion, which has upon many occasions stretched differently considerate ties between Islamist PAS as well as a secular, infancy Chinese DAP.
This despite a very transparent as well as benefaction risk a prickly chestnut still poses to PR, carrying already damaged a back of a prior short-lived antithesis coalition, Barisan Alternatif, in 2001.
The lone voice of reason in this pleasantness was DAP authority Karpal Singh, who pronounced final night: "We contingency finalise a hudud issue as soon as possible. If you don't, you will face problems helming a nation."
The other side
All this as Barisan Nasional (BN) labours hard to chip divided during PR's share of middle Malaysia with a raft of reforms calculated to enamour it to a civic demographic as well as a rapidly flourishing ranks of young, brand brand brand brand new voters.
The Najib administration department has additionally moved fast to shore up a farming as well as civic bad vote base by liberally dishing out millions in money to take a sting out of rapidly rising inflation.
So whilst a antithesis might have done poignant inroads in to Negeri Sembilan and, to a lesser extent, east Malaysia, it will likely lose seats to BN in Kelantan where Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat has been mentri besar for some-more than 20 years or even a state of Kedah where both opposition pacts have been seen as weak.
Perak remains a toss-up, say analysts, as BN has been working hard to consolidate a grip upon a state it took over pleasantness of three defections in 2009, roughly a year after losing it in Election 2008.
Where to from here
PR should treat a achievements as self-evident as they! should be as well as move fast to finalise pass issues rather than waste a second chance during domestic life regurgitating tired tales.
Its manifold member parties contingency lay down together as well as hash out once as well as for all benefaction problems rather than demeanour to a past for succour, so it might step in to a future with transparent vision.
If they cannot do this for their own sakes then during slightest do it for electorate who might be extraordinary about a pact's third act: "But what happens after?"
But with elections looming, only time will tell if this will be too little, too late for PR, which outlayed what might well be a final gathering prior to snap polls have been called gazing in a wrong direction. Drought of brand brand brand brand new ideas threatens Pakatan's Putrajaya bid
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