May 11, 2012
One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward Politics with Electoral Reform
by Terence Netto(05-10-12)@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: It looks similar to it is the single step backward, dual stairs brazen for the powers-that-be.In the diametric reversal of renowned communist-style maneuvering tactics, the supervision has cold the argumentative Election Offences Amendments Bill in strong placation of BERSIH supporters.
This is the step at the behind of from frontal positions taken up prior to the electoral remodel advocacy organisation staged the criticism of Apr twenty-eight which ended in clashes in between sections of BERSIH supporters as well as Police.
The strong incorporate to BERSIH as well as the supporters was negated by dual stairs the supervision announced yesterday whose outcome was to push the movement for polls remodel at the behind of upon the heels.
The supervision appointed the censor of the Apr twenty-eight demonstration, former Inspector-General of Police Tun Hanif Omar (right in photo with the argumentative Tunku Aziz), as chairperson of the six-member independent row of exploration in to reports of assault at the BERSIH 3.0 rally.
Also, by arguing which Election Commission arch Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof did not renew his ties to UMNO from the time he was initial registered as the member, supposedly but his knowledge, the supervision was signaling it won't yield to BERSIH's demands which Aziz quit the post for reasons of bias.
This the single step backward, dual stairs brazen stratagem, intimated yesterday by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul! Aziz ty pified the overall settlement of responses by the Najib Razak administration towards the movement for domestic change in the country.
A incorporate here as well as the concession there to the remodel movement, whose urgency was strenuously conveyed by the formula of the last ubiquitous election, is cancelled out by backward moves elsewhere.
Insufficient time
The latest raft of measures taken by the supervision throws in to even crook service than was the box prior to this settlement of swapping the concessionary with the coercive. The Election Offences Amendment Bill 2012 was railroaded through Parliament, together with the horde of other bills, upon the last day of the House's initial open this year.
The Opposition filibustered in vain against what was the transparent attempt by the supervision to camouflage backward aspects of the proposed new laws underneath the patina of remodel to draconian laws upon inner confidence as well as media operations similar to the ISA as well as the Printing Presses as well as Publications Act.
Without giving enough time to Parliament as well as open to debate the scope of the reforms it was proposing, the supervision managed to slide the backward aspects of the new legislation inside of the folds of the some-more savoury features. The upshot: divergent as well as unpalatable facilities to the new fangled laws were slid underneath the rubric of reforms to the old.
The outcome was which at the behind of the smokescreen of trumpeted reform, nettlesome, even nefarious, provisos were tagged upon to the new laws which rendered spurious the government's direct goal to do divided with their draconian predecessors.
The supervision spurned the opposition's defence to impute the new laws to parliamentary select committees (PSC), denouncing the Opposition as feigned in wanting PSCs for the little laws as well as disappearing it upon the hot-button emanate such as the rare earth pla! n in Geb eng, in Pahang.
All this conduced to the rumpled as well as rushed event of Parliament, the haste worsened by pre-election fever. Furthermore, the proclamation by BERSIH, after the vigour organisation had criticised as unsound the electoral remodel measures proposed by the parliamentary select committee, which the sit-down criticism would be staged upon Apr twenty-eight ratcheted up the tensions which had hovered over Parliament at the last sitting.
There is the technique in photography called citation blur, which is used to give an sense of speed. The antithesis felt, in the last days of the last parliamentary sitting, which they were very most directionally blurred.
Then BERSIH 3.0 blew in with gale-like force upon Apr twenty-eight as well as ended in skirmishes in between protesters as well as police, predictably followed by the welter of recrimination by both sides.
Marxist-Leninist tactics
The supervision right away wants to tranquilise the febrile emanate with an independent row to examine abuses committed by both the military as well as protesters. In fixing former IGP Hanif as authority of the panel, they have picked someone who had already semaphored his showing upon the emanate of whether BERSIH3.0 was the bona fide countenance of the right to peaceful assembly.
Hanif has gone upon record as having, together with dual previous holders of the same office, denounced the BERSIH criticism of Apr twenty-eight as insurrectionary in goal as well as Marxist-Leninist in tactics.
Appointing him authority of an independent row to examine the assault would be akin to choosing Dominic Strauss Kahn to the conduct an enquiry in to whether Nicholas Sarkozy had intent in pre-election harm of the chances of intensity rivals for the post of President of France. The notion of Hanif as an impartial judge simply won't wash.
Likewise the argument which stream hilt Abdul Aziz (far right) was not fatally disqualified for the post of EC chair because he was usually briefly as well as unwittingly the part of of UMNO; the small actuality which he was an UMNO part of has rendered his position as neutral interlocutor in between competing domestic parties irretrievably compromised.
The government's strategy of yielding to open vigour upon the incorrectness of the Election Offences Bill whilst playing the prejudiced hand upon the issues of who is to conduct the independent inquisition in to Police methods during BERSIH 3.0 as well as what is to be finished about the stream EC chair are the classic example of the single step backward, dual stairs brazen maneuvering.
The irony is which even if it infrequently tars the present-day opponents with the brush of the revolutionary adversaries of the half-century back, it doesn't thoughts adopting the latter's tactics, with the twist or two.
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