Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: A Third Force is a Boon for UMNO-BN

A Third Force is a Boon for UMNO-BN

February 29, 2012

A Third Force is a Boon for UMNO-BN

by Rashid Ahmad@www.freemalaysiatoday.com

Almost all politicians who were diminished from their parties or who left since of internal strife have a tendency to re-brand themselves as a "third force".

These politicians claimed they represent a voice of a discontented members as well as a fence-sitters.The ultimate to burst upon a bandwagon is Jati, headed by Hasan Ali, who was diminished by PAS for allegedly not toeing a party's line.

Selangor PAS, helmed by Hasan, has been a "torn in a flesh" of a state Pakatan Rakyat government, with Hasan persistently harping upon Islamic issues, as well as regularly starting opposite a wishes of a PAS inhabitant leaders.

With his expulsion, he shaped Jati, which he claimed to be a third force which can lean a votes of discontented members as well as fence-sitters. But what Hasan has in thoughts is to swing a votes to a Barisan Nasional (BN). This is understandable deliberation which he had longed for to be partial of BN when Pakatan took over Selangor in a 2008 ubiquitous election.

Whether Hasan will attain in conversion a disillusioned PAS members as well as a fence-sitters is open to question. But a actuality stays clear: PAS as well as its partners PKR as well as DAP do not see eye to eye upon most issues.

The internal feud has put Pakatan during a waste as a 13th ubiquitous choosing looms as well as this gives BN a upper hand: it can take a votes of those worried with a agreement of a loose alliance in a antithesis front.

Th e third force Hindraf which threw MIC, a strong partner in BN, off-balance in a 2008 ubiquitous election, had fizzled out as well as subsequently multiform alternative politicians have emerged claiming to represent a brand new force.

Thus with MIC as well as all alternative BN parties getting their act together again, a presentation of a brand new third force, if it is led by diminished leaders from a antithesis parties, can help boost BN's chances during a polls.

Stormy relationship

Hasan, though not a force himself, can help BN with his allegations by formulating doubts in a minds of undone celebration members as well as waverers.

He can exploit a "internal" crisis plaguing PAS in its inclement attribute with DAP as well as PKR as they squabbled upon most controversial issues.

For example, a argue over Israel, a infighting between a intellectuals as well as a conservatives upon a in front of of Kedah Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak, as well as a exclusion of Hasan himself are fodders for a BN.

Before Hasan, former MCA president Ong Tee Keat was additionally toying with a idea of combining a third force when he mislaid a celebration care to Dr Chua Soi Lek. However, Ong was not much of a domestic heavyweight with a Chinese village as well as shortly his third force used away.

Zaid Ibrahim, who left PKR in anger, took over a dying celebration Kita as well as tried to energise it as a third force but it was in vain. The successive argue as well as split left a celebration floundering.

As some-more as well as some-more politicians lay claims to heading a third force, a BN is smiling since a so-called brand new force is actually weakening a antithesis parties.

Although a leaders of a third force claimed they are not operative hand in gl! ove with BN, a flawless actuality stays which all their actions are undermining their own parties. Whatever they say in their ceramah or press conferences will definitely hurt a chances of their former bosses.

In short, BN is a one which stands to benefit from a domestic posturing of a leaders of a so-called third force.