Comments on: Will Gerakan leave BN?

By: James

James — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:23:48 +0000

As a member of Gerakan, I strongly advise Gerakan leaders to seriously joining DAP.

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By: gon

gon — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:23:58 +0000

Asking component parties to merge in BN is not a msart move. UMNO is an extremist racial party. Any minority race party merging with UMNO would be completely swamped! It is as simple as that. The answer is an emphatic “no”. The correct answer is for Gerakan and other parties to leave BN and join a coalition of Opposition parties. The future of Malaysian politics is in coalition politics. There the only way to look after the interests of what theystand for, would be negotiate for the best deal or “pork-barrel’ as the term is used in politics. The parties should not be afraid to quit any colaition and have its reps walk across the floor to the other side, any time. That is the only way for king-makers to have any influence over any majority parties.

Remember, there’s no permanent friends or enemies in politics. The only permanent thing is what ideals you believe in and hope to achieve it.

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By: Frank Woo

Frank Woo — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:47:51 +0000

Gerakan is hard to win back Penang Chinese supporters
especially if Dr Khoo Tsu Kon still a leader to Gerakan if will give a negative impact to Gerakan
the only way is to leave BN join DAP or PKR
if u want to win the next election many of my friends already said Gerakan is out for next election

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By: Suren Menon

Suren Menon — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:18:17 +0000

Gerakan, You have …. yourself to UMNO – …

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By: miwaki

miwaki — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:14:11 +0000

Gerakan is as good as gone,do you think leaders of Gerakan will be offered seats for next general election if they join PKR or DAP ? Gerakan has to glue to BN because it has no other alternative.

My advice for Gerakan is to leave BN and dissolve the party since it has no more support from the people and it is useless to UMNO.Why must you live under such horrible condition which is worst than a beggar waiting for UMNO to feed you.Don’t you people have any self respect left !

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By: akbar din

akbar din — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:07 +0000

Gerakan has only two choices if it is sincere in its claim that it is a multi-racial party. Either it joins PKR or DAP. Otherwise, it faces oblivion. Period.

Akbar Din.
Anak Penang.

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By: anarchy2008

anarchy2008 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:22:15 +0000

Since when is Gerakan a multi racial party? Yes, during THOSE years when Dominic Puthuchery stood for elections etc but then it became a chinese base party….streamlining to an elite based, educated chinese party.

Its easy to blame UMNO….but the Malays especially in Penang did give its votes to BN Chinese candidates. Figures will speak for itself, but not the chinese community, they played out BN, for being too kind and giving everything that they asked for. The Chinese Chambers of Commerce played their role in the demise of Gerakan in Penang, thanks to certain individuals. Thats a fact!

When UMNO won a majority of it seats the last time and Gerakan lost out to them…..they gave the CMship to Gerakan. So who is being racial here? Its DAP. they played the cards right this time, telling the chinese that its UMNO that choose the CM…..telling PAS to drop the Islamic state issue and PKR being the moderator.

Those making comments here stop being racist. Look at BN own faults. They never came as one right till the end. Koh Tsu Koon should have just nominated his successor and get on with the elections. Kaveas forever asking for seats….UMNO gave its seat to Gerakan, in spirit of BN. The Malays have always been giving in…..but they will come a stage where they will stop and there is a danger it will, soon enough.

Leaving a sinking ship? Go ahead.

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By: novice101

novice101 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:39:06 +0000

Gerakan had tried to reform the BN from within, and what has it got to show – that it has, instead, been transformed by UMNO !

In it deliberations now, it should ponder, very carefully the options opened. The scenarios Dr. Toh and Dr. Choong have painted for its deliberations are very near to the truth. They may not be pretty but they are the hard realities facing Gerakan.

To stay in the BN and to have more of the same, is like buying a one-way ticket to “Doomsday’.

To stay and to seek reform from within, trying to get all the parties in the BN to merge to form a multi-racial BN doesn’t seem feasible. UMNO, is still bent on fighting for the the rights and honor of the Malays. There are still many self-proclaimed ‘defenders’ in UMNO (Haishammuddin, Khairy J, Nazir A, Aziz, Ali Rustam Mohd. Ali, M2 Taib) and now, waiting in the wings, are, Mohamad Hasan, Azhar Ibrahim.

It leaves Gerakan not much of a choice, but to seriously consider leaving the coalition. All the parties in the BN had been too long mired in racial politics, to be able to make a clean break from it. Gerakan cannot hope to survive in the same environment!

MCA, MIC, and PPP are in the same boat as the Gerakan. The points laid out below, apply to them equally.

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:44:23 +0000

Then the three stooges became two……..

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