June 13, 2012
GE-13: Opposition Pakatan will focus upon Change as well as Cronyism
by Carolyn Hong, The Straits Times, Singapore
The next ubiquitous election may still be nowhere in sight, but this only gives the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) some-more time to pull the dual Cs: Change as well as Cronyism.
The summary which Anwar Ibrahim's PR bloc will send out to voters is which Malaysia deserves the shift after over 50 years of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) bloc in power.
"They will call upon the people to go the full approach for the indiscriminate shift in government, after starting halfway in 2008," pronounced domestic analyst James Chin of Monash University Malaysia. In 2008, the PR bloc won 5 of 13 states, as well as 82 of 222 parliamentary seats.
The BN, of course, will counter this by retorting which Anwar, who rose by the ranks of UMNO himself before his fall from grace, does not mount for any genuine change.
As always, race as well as sacrament will permeate the notion of change. UMNO is pushing the summary which 'change' will mean opening the doorway to the Chinese- formed Democratic Action Party, to the wreckage of the Malay community.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Chinese Association, the senior BN member, is offered the summary which 'change' means permitting the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) to take the first step in setting up an Islamic state in Malaysia.
Corruption is another perennial theme this election, as well as it was effective in galvanising votes in 2008. As Chin noted, crime per se is frequency the large issue because many Malaysians have come to see it as partial of the system. But cronyism angers people who are struggling to make ends meet.
The Opposition has played this card repeatedly, harping upon big- fish allegations like the 'cows as well as condos' liaison which forced former Women, Family as well as Community Development Minister Shahrizat Jalil ! upon the defensive.
Shahrizat's husband as well as children, who own the firm called the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), admitted regulating partial of the supervision soft loan for cattle farming to buy luxury properties in Kuala Lumpur as well as Singapore. The NFC has released repeated denials of any wrongdoing.
The alternative big-fish liaison is the allegation which crime was involved in the Malaysian Navy's purchase of submarines in 2006, when Prime Minister Najib Razak was Defence Minister.
Najib, who became Prime Minister in 2009, is running the campaign formed upon his personal code of care as well as economic as well as domestic reforms which he has evenly undertaken given he took office.
This will be another stump of attack by the opposition: which Najib does not have the await of his party or the authorities for his reforms, as well as which he is steering alone the boat which does not want to obey.
Analysts expect these themes the call for change, crime as well as cronyism, race as well as religion, as well as reforms to dominate the election campaign. In fact, they are already personification out upon the daily basis.
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