After Perak, is the BN now eyeing Selangor? That is the question that seems to be on quite a few minds.
Malaysians politics is now in a state of flux, with both the BN and the Pakatan suffering a series of setbacks.
This is a piece I wrote for Asia Times:
No winners in Malaysia’s political tussle
By Anil Netto
PENANG – The political situation in Malaysia is in a state of flux as both the ruling coalition and the opposition alliance face mounting challenges and uncertainties.
A huge rally in which thousands of Malaysians gathered in the streets of Kuala Lumpur despite a tight security clampdown demonstrated once again that a large number of Malaysians want greater civil liberties and are increasingly disillusioned with the current political system dominated by the Barisan Nasional (BN) ruling coalition. Full story here.
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PR memang susah nak berjaya. PAS sudah lupa slogan “PAS for all”. DAP juga tidak boleh aman dengan PAS. Anwar mesti buat sesuatu untuk mereka bersatu semula. Biarlah semua bercakap dan bertindak seperti seminggu sebelum PRU 12 dahulu.
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,,,,,comes dua puluh dua puluh (2020)….mari kita cari kerja di Indon….what goes around comes around….haha…haha…God Save Malaysia.
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Is this plane called Malaysia going to crash….
Looks very much so…
The people want a different government but the previous … is determined to sabotage this by hook or by crook…
We are a country surely and truly heading for trouble. Too much politicking….no one working….
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am really getting sick of all politicians (bn & pr). election is over! get down to work and serve those who elected u. u can fight again in ge13 n we the rakyat will judge u again.
bn, don’t be a sore loser! get down to work n prove us wrong so that we can give u back the vote!
pr, stop all your in-fighting and finger pointing if u still want the same vote from the people!
hope there will be a 3rd coalition in ge13 so that we can vote both bn n pr out!
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Naif is Selangor’s Umno chief for nothing,he (could) plot and caused PR to break up and he has all the right (instruments of state) to back him up..its going to be a uphill task for PR to overcome all this barriers…but they have to..PR have to sit together and work things out in the interest of the Rakyat who voted them in the first place to get rid of the corrupted BN regime who have fallen out in favour of the people ..
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Chinese must not vote for PAS in the next by-election in Penang!!! If PAS hate so much on alcohol, pls ban also muslim who work in duty free shops selling alcohol!!!!….
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Also, ban muslim from working in genting because casino and alcohol is everywhere!! These PAS is a real … stirrer in PR
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PR lost Selangor.Lost tentatively but not all lost.It is good for PR to lost Selangor like how it done in Perak.The rakyat knows how to deal coming GE
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If you are stupid and dumb,don’t try to act smart.20,000 out of 26,000,000,which is less than 1% is not large number of malaysians idiot!…
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Selangor Pakatan
Don’t shoot each other back
The black knight is charging into your castle
And you guys are playing hide and seek
You forget disunity falls
Of any coalition for a common goal
It is for the people so stick your promise
Tackle your enemies at your doors
Don’t waste time issuing stupid statements
It doesn’t help matters……you spoil our votes
Macc running you down
Serving its black knight nothing else
Police … lopsided prosecutions
Leaving black knight the easy job to hit
The loopholes he needs to establish
Anwar in his sodomy 2
He has tied down with his case
A political entrapment nothing to shoot
It is only to derail his plan
For the country fairer to all
Now govern oh Selangor Pakatan
Perak was a easy target for the black knight
Pressure the b… giving out wealth
Plan up charges hit the greedy ones
Likewise the same method is appearing
Hitting charges to create fear spending in jail
But for black knight and his cronies
They live luxuriously and free
Selangor Pakatan
The enemies marching to your doors
Wake up and better find ways to trap them
Don’t sleep on it…
We want our votes count
No more back entry!
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Surely there will be some extream from PAS of anywhere who will not be satisfied with anything.
Are they asking that shares in beer companies cannot be own by muslims. (Please go check out shareholders and even the people on the board).Shares in gaming companies. Go ask all the muslims who work in the racecourse, the syces, trainers, jockeys and even one chairman is a muslim. The royalty have grace the course before. Well there’s so many other areas. So can we have some moderation.PR please don’t wreack the oppurtinity.
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Can I suggest PR has its own symbol like
three colours(green,red and blue) rectangle boxes with PR in black at the center? I think the three
PR parties can comes closer together and cooperated better to win the next GE! All PR members and supporters will not shy or reluctant to vote this
symbol in the next GE!
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Cant you see the saliva dripping onto that Big piece of Cake ?
Now it’s the showdown between Tom & Jerry..
Whom do you think fit to play the role of Jerry ?
May be the Kids know better ?
That’s all folks….
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I Totally agree with Hassan Ali and Khir Toyo. Pls stop selling alcohol in Muslim / Malay majority area. Pls also take note that from now onwards all GLC ( Government Linked Companies which are controlled by Malays / Muslims – which erver comes first coz i’m confused ) should stop selling alcohol. That goes to MAS, Hotels, and all related investments. Better still build a 12feet wall segregrating malays / muslims from the rest of non-malays/muslims….
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to: shamshul iskandar 9.31pm,
i) u try to get a crowd to support isa and see how many turn up.
ii) then, we get a crowd (again) to mansuhkan isa, and we see how many turn up.
iii) on both occassions, must be peaceful and accompanied by the police no problem. but police must not kacau.
i’d say the result would be something like this:-
pro-isa: total, maybe 5,000 (mostly pewaris, magaran or whatever their name is, some silat clubs, another 10 or 20 obscure roups – but all predominantly umno members).
mansuh-isa: 1,300,000 (all volunteers, most take unpaid leave, some comes with crutches, wheelchairs etc…age band from 2 to 105, malays, chinese, indians, ibans, kadazans etc… male & female – all walking arms-locked, in true spirit of bangsa malaysia. in short, the whole of kl/selangor except those bed-ridden, in prison or in lock-ups…
4RAKYAT
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Stop selling Alcohol is not an issue to many of us.
We just felt that this should have been done longtime ago before the opposition took over and it just smell kind of
alcohol politic.
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Next, no beef in Indian majority area and buddhist majority area. Aisay, that is what Najib is about… segregation. (btw, still think that Hassan and Zul is just a puppet for UMNO)
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Yes, Selangor is next, they will scheme and plan and do whatever it takes to take over Selangor and the rest of the PR ruled states by whatever means they can.
…this dictatorship gomen (may not even give) up power even if the opposition wins the next general election.
… cos if they loose, it’s like a death sentence to them. They have too much skeletons and corruptions in their cupboards.. like direct nego contracts and all those contracts to cronies classified under OSA which is bulls… mana ada transparency?
Remember the ex dentist MB (administration) of Selangor remove all files and destroy all documents by shredding them as soon as Pakatan won Selangorin the 2008 General election.
He was so arrogant and blinded by money and power that he never thought that he could lose… He was so confident and he went on to built himself a multi million Balinese style mansion/palace.
…almost all our neighbouring country is speeding far ahead and we will be left far far behind.
I cry for you, Malaysia.
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TO: Shamshul Iskandar 9.31pm,
U tak pi tengok ke demo anti-isa?
U ok kot muslims dalam isa bertahun2? 8tahun?
Sapa sara anak2 isteri2 mereka ni?
It never happened to you, you dont know what is ISA
to begin with. Pegilah tengok senarai, paling ramai
Islam kan? Melayu kan?
Buat apa ada ISA tetapi Muslims ramai dalam tu?
Ini lah UMNO, sama je dgn negara barat, kena tunjun kepada negara Barat yg UMNO anti-terrorism.
Yang ada sekarang Islam UMNO, Islam chauvinist Malays.
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Alcohol…
I agree with please do not sell alcohol to Muslims.
Its okay to sell alcohol to non-Muslims.
What so difficult with that?
The country is run by Islam UMNO, they dissect and cut-paste the Quran according to their needs.
Next, when rakyat press of Corruption to be in line with Islam…..
Islam UMNO will have headache & migrain.
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I see some similarities with
dirty tricks used by the Republican Party in the USA i.e. over there, “wedge issues” (such as abortion, gay rights, etc) are used to divide the ordinary people so that plutocratic/kleptocratic elites can continue to remain in power.
Over here, one of the wedge issues to divide the
PAS-DAP-PKR alliance could be things such as access to alcohol. People working for progressive change in Malaysia should not be manipulated but should work out reasonable compromises on issues such as these.
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YES….YES…YES….Selangor the next to fall back to BN very soon unless PR comes back to their senses and return to being the People’s Mandate and not quarreling among themselves and trying to show who is the “tai kor” in the coalition.
We all are aware that Hassan Ali is the guy who (allegedly) tried to bargained with Toyo to be the MB after 308 GE12 but was not successful (Thank Goodness). If he is still in PAS, we can continue to see more damaged to PR and very soon he will lead the PAS section loyal to him to jump and maybe join UMNO or form his own party to grab power with BN to form the new Selangor Govt. Dont laugh…this is similar to Perak and may just happen to Selangor.
I dread to see such a thing happening in Selangor. PR should pull uyp their socks and MB Khalid must be strict and come down hard on all such squabbles and if he finds such dubious characters in his govt, he should not hesitate to sack them irrespective of what party they are from. Strict Discipline is the answer to all these problems. If BN MBs dare to exert their MBs rights, why not you?
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Bro Anil.This ia an ol issue.UMNO/BN has targetted all the 5 Pakatan states since last year.The PM has a deadline.By such and such date,he want to “takeover” all the Pakatan States.
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Dr.Hassan Ali,is ex BTN,(believed by some to be) an “UMNO mole” in PAS, plus an ex BTN. Man,these fellas went all out to (undermine) the “erdogans” in PAS (like Husam Musa,Khalid Samad..).The important thing to note, is THEY ARE FAILLING!!
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Anil
An excellent and object analysis of the situation.
However I am unconviced that there is a plot on Selangor. The situation in Perak was different (wafer thin majority) but to be fair I don’t think BN had any plans to bring down the PR govt there. If we remember, BN was in such mess that they were clueless and behaving like headless chickens. I hardly would think they would be plotting against PR. Alos Pak Lah had stated many times his opposition to such scheming. My guess is when the UMNO ADUN defected, the BN decided to strike back and some people would have convinced Pak Lah to go approve it since Pakatan started it first.
I don’t think there is a plot in Selangor either. This stupid claims by some PR politicians reminds me of Dr M during his tenure when he always blamed foreigners who were “jealous” of our success for every problems we encountered.
In reality there are numerous problems in Selangor since there is a huge gap between the philosophies and personaliies of the Pakatan parties there. Selangor is very unlike in Penang, Perak, Kelantan & Kedah where a single PR party has a strong majority and drives the state polices while the others had to follow. If you see in Selangor, all there parties are equally strong and this paves way for intense struggle for power and control among DAP, PKR and PAS.
About half of my extended family live in Selangor so I know what’s happening there. Let’s just say that the purity and integrity of PR’s parties like DAP and PAS have been proven to be false hopes. Selangorians are fully exposed to the same excesses of BN, just this time it is from a different parties. That’s why I was not surprised by the allegations against the DAP leaders.
In fact a lot more is going on and it is a matter of time before more DAP,PAS and PKR leaders get caught by MACC.
The KBP issue has destroyed the credibility of LGE’s government with me but to be fair, Penang’s govt’s incompetence is nothing compared to the scale of abuse and corruption that is under PR’s Selangor.
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