Whenever I whacked Anwar Ibrahim and/or PKR, wakakaka, My visitor looes74 would urge me to whack Najib and UMNO, and when I didn't, would accuse me of having a 'soft spot' for the PM, wakakaka.
Mind you, when I did, that is, whack Najib and/or UMNO, he seldom acknowledged it. Alas for poor kaytee, wakakaka!
Though I don't have to explain nor justify why I blogged on certain topics (or absence of) I will anyway, for I have a 'soft spot' for looes74, 'too' if I were to include my alleged 'soft spot' for Najib, wakakaka.
A blogger writes on what he or she wants to write, which is why he or she becomes a blogger in the first place; sometimes the topic posted coincides with the wishlist of a visitor, but sometimes it won't, but when the latter occurs it shouldn't invite the sort of attitude that low-brow George Bush had threateningly and uglily displayed, namely, 'either you're with us or against us' or variants of it such as 'having a soft spot' for the 'enemy', wakakaka.
An example of why at times I won't post certain topics is when I sense my effort on the topic would be so obviously ineffective in the overall blogging landscape, to wit, my posting would be a mere drop in the ocean, as would be in a post on, say, the case of a predictable outburst during UMNO's recent assembly, that of the call for 1Melayu instead of 1Malaysia, or even Najib's boast to his party gallery that UMNO had won the popular vote in many states.
Above two items would be bloody trite lah, wakakaka. Indeed, there'd be more than a few bloggers hopping, harping and hullabaloo-ing on those topics, wakakaka.
However, what attracted me has been FMT's article titled Leave if DAP stays with PAS, Karpal told. The owner of that reported statement is Tunku Aziz, erstwhile DAP member and former DAP senator, wakakaka.
More than a year ago I had written of his acrimonious departure from DAP in my post DAP's comedy (or tragedy) of errors with Tunku Aziz in which I also showed my 'soft spot' wakakaka for Tunku by explaining what I thought was hurtful to an elderly patrician gentleman. That's because I understand people like Tunku want respect due to their elderly and senior status. In that post I had concluded rather hopefully as follows:
Nonetheless, I feel rather sad that Tunku has decided to end his association with DAP and in particular Lim GE in such an acrimonious manner.
But I am glad that Guan Eng has firmly closed the issue in a gracious manner ...
... which alas, was not to be because following his departure from the erstwhile comradeship of DAP he lamentably went beyond the pale (went beyond boundaries of decency) when he questioned the ethnicity of Zairil Khir, the son of the late Khir Johari. I then wrote:
The fact is in doing so, Tunku would have had the Constitutional whistle blown at him for being off-side, while the reality is he had been hurtfully racist in casting a slur on Zairil's lack of Malayness, as that of a 'lesser Malay' because he was born a Chinese and subsequently adopted by Khir Johari - and let me repeat what I had written then, he broke my heart in that lamentable action.
Okay, I know that Tunku was hurt by Lim Guan Eng, and as hell hath no fury like a proud patrician scorned, he was no doubt getting back at the DAP sec-gen, but I was gobsmacked flabbergasted by Tunku's meanness towards Zairil ...
... and excuse my tautology of 'gobsmacked flabbergasted' but those two words were absolutely necessary to indicate my deep shock that a patrician like Tunku could become so 'ordinary', in fact 'ordinarily' nasty.
Consider how Josh Hong had described him in Malaysiakini’s Tunku Aziz and the Dewan Negara, relevant extracts as follows:
Have the above been misplaced?
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Mind you, when I did, that is, whack Najib and/or UMNO, he seldom acknowledged it. Alas for poor kaytee, wakakaka!
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| did I miss targeting my 'soft spot'? wakakaka |
Though I don't have to explain nor justify why I blogged on certain topics (or absence of) I will anyway, for I have a 'soft spot' for looes74, 'too' if I were to include my alleged 'soft spot' for Najib, wakakaka.
A blogger writes on what he or she wants to write, which is why he or she becomes a blogger in the first place; sometimes the topic posted coincides with the wishlist of a visitor, but sometimes it won't, but when the latter occurs it shouldn't invite the sort of attitude that low-brow George Bush had threateningly and uglily displayed, namely, 'either you're with us or against us' or variants of it such as 'having a soft spot' for the 'enemy', wakakaka.
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| bully boys, like looes74? wakakaka |
An example of why at times I won't post certain topics is when I sense my effort on the topic would be so obviously ineffective in the overall blogging landscape, to wit, my posting would be a mere drop in the ocean, as would be in a post on, say, the case of a predictable outburst during UMNO's recent assembly, that of the call for 1Melayu instead of 1Malaysia, or even Najib's boast to his party gallery that UMNO had won the popular vote in many states.
Above two items would be bloody trite lah, wakakaka. Indeed, there'd be more than a few bloggers hopping, harping and hullabaloo-ing on those topics, wakakaka.
However, what attracted me has been FMT's article titled Leave if DAP stays with PAS, Karpal told. The owner of that reported statement is Tunku Aziz, erstwhile DAP member and former DAP senator, wakakaka.
More than a year ago I had written of his acrimonious departure from DAP in my post DAP's comedy (or tragedy) of errors with Tunku Aziz in which I also showed my 'soft spot' wakakaka for Tunku by explaining what I thought was hurtful to an elderly patrician gentleman. That's because I understand people like Tunku want respect due to their elderly and senior status. In that post I had concluded rather hopefully as follows:
Nonetheless, I feel rather sad that Tunku has decided to end his association with DAP and in particular Lim GE in such an acrimonious manner.
But I am glad that Guan Eng has firmly closed the issue in a gracious manner ...
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| his rift with DAP started from this, but sadly didn't end there |
... which alas, was not to be because following his departure from the erstwhile comradeship of DAP he lamentably went beyond the pale (went beyond boundaries of decency) when he questioned the ethnicity of Zairil Khir, the son of the late Khir Johari. I then wrote:
The fact is in doing so, Tunku would have had the Constitutional whistle blown at him for being off-side, while the reality is he had been hurtfully racist in casting a slur on Zairil's lack of Malayness, as that of a 'lesser Malay' because he was born a Chinese and subsequently adopted by Khir Johari - and let me repeat what I had written then, he broke my heart in that lamentable action.
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Zairil Khir Johari, a 'lesser Melayu' to Tunku Aziz? |
Okay, I know that Tunku was hurt by Lim Guan Eng, and as hell hath no fury like a proud patrician scorned, he was no doubt getting back at the DAP sec-gen, but I was gobsmacked flabbergasted by Tunku's meanness towards Zairil ...
... and excuse my tautology of 'gobsmacked flabbergasted' but those two words were absolutely necessary to indicate my deep shock that a patrician like Tunku could become so 'ordinary', in fact 'ordinarily' nasty.
Consider how Josh Hong had described him in Malaysiakini’s Tunku Aziz and the Dewan Negara, relevant extracts as follows:
Coming from a prominent background (distantly related to the Kedah royalty) and having been very much a part of Malaysia’s high society ....., [...]
This, together with his relatively liberal and diverse family roots, ...
Have the above been misplaced?
Also read my other BolehTalk post on Tunku Aziz titled Noblesse oblige missing.
So we have him at it again, this time against Karpal Singh, though in this latest episode (and I'm sure there'll be more episodes from Tunku Aziz, wakakaka) there is an unfortunate lot of truth in his taunt at Bhai.
Look, I may be someone who voted for and support DAP but I'm not the type who would Myrmidon-ishly snap at critics of the Rocket ship ...
Look, I may be someone who voted for and support DAP but I'm not the type who would Myrmidon-ishly snap at critics of the Rocket ship ...
... which finally brings me to the topic for this post, about the DAP's 3 dilemmas,namely:
- To be allied to PAS or not?
- To be more flexible in accepting new membership especially and particularly from Malays?
- To be the same old DAP or a brand new model?
Of course the 3 dilemmas would be, nay, have to be inter-related in more than one way.
Okay then, as the King said gravely to Alice kaytee in WonderBolehland, let's “Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop,” so let's discuss the first dot-point, as prompted by Tunku Aziz's taunt, of DAP's difficult if not dodgy alliance with the Islamic party.
FMT reported Tunku saying:
DAP chairman Karpal Singh should leave [DAP] to save his reputation and high standing if he cannot convince his party to end ties with PAS, said Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim.
“We have lost count of the number of times Karpal has bemoaned the fact that PAS leaders, his political allies, have remained defiantly unrepentant for their single-minded push for an Islamic Malaysia.”
“Karpal should get his party out of the morally impossible situation because there is no future in a fragile, loveless and dishonest relationship with PAS, kept barely alive by mutual deception and political expediency.”
Of course Tunku was taunting Bhai with the (UMNO) intent to split Pakatan up, hopefully in time before GE-14.
Fast rewind to 1999, the year Lim Kit Siang and Bhai lost in the parliamentary election because many DAP supporters didn't fancy DAP's loose 'alliance' via the so-called Barisan Alternatif with a rampaging fierce, feral and frightening PAS, one that exploited and hoped to hijack the sympathies for Dr Wan Azizah, and overran her due to her inexperience (and reluctance) as a politician.
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Lin Juo-yu, the Director of Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan, wrote a paper titled 'A structural analysis of the Malaysian 1999 general elections: Changing voting preference of ethnic Chinese and ...' in which he said of (one of) Dr Mahathir's election strategy in view of pending Malay-Muslim vote loss due to the expulsion of Anwar Ibrahim from UMNO:
To strike fear in the minds of the Chinese, the media was instructed to preach that if PAS came to power, Malaysia would become an Islamic state. By then entertainment and alcohol would be forbidden, women would be required to be veiled in public, minority groups would be deprived of their rights, and hudud (Islamic criminal code) laws would be applied even for minor crimes.
As a result, ethnic clashes might have erupted, and even the 1969 “the Accident on May 13” might have been repeated. Chinese businessmen and the Chinese middle classes were the main target of this negative propaganda.
Lin Juo-yu, the Director of Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies at Tamkang University, Taiwan, wrote a paper titled 'A structural analysis of the Malaysian 1999 general elections: Changing voting preference of ethnic Chinese and ...' in which he said of (one of) Dr Mahathir's election strategy in view of pending Malay-Muslim vote loss due to the expulsion of Anwar Ibrahim from UMNO:
To strike fear in the minds of the Chinese, the media was instructed to preach that if PAS came to power, Malaysia would become an Islamic state. By then entertainment and alcohol would be forbidden, women would be required to be veiled in public, minority groups would be deprived of their rights, and hudud (Islamic criminal code) laws would be applied even for minor crimes.
As a result, ethnic clashes might have erupted, and even the 1969 “the Accident on May 13” might have been repeated. Chinese businessmen and the Chinese middle classes were the main target of this negative propaganda.
Well, certainly PAS has shown its implementation of some of above (1st paragraph) in Kedah and Kelantan, and voiced (still does) its intention to have hudud implemented as part of syariah laws to replace the secular civil laws. One wonders what else it will impose should it come into power.
It was precisely this fear of PAS which saw DAP supporters spurn both Uncle Lim and Bhai, and punish them into sitting out of the entire 10th parliamentary term.
From that unthinkable loss for the two DAP veterans, one of the saddest political moments for me was when I heard the story of Uncle Lim walking away from the vote-counting station after the election result was announced, all by his lonesome self.
popular song in Kota Baru's unisex hair salon, wakakaka
It was precisely this fear of PAS which saw DAP supporters spurn both Uncle Lim and Bhai, and punish them into sitting out of the entire 10th parliamentary term.
From that unthinkable loss for the two DAP veterans, one of the saddest political moments for me was when I heard the story of Uncle Lim walking away from the vote-counting station after the election result was announced, all by his lonesome self.
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| the real and only Tiger of Jelutong & not a mangy cat, wakakaka |
Leaving that lamentable poignant scene aside, of a hero totally deserted in his moment of greatest (consoling) need, many DAP politicians came to realize the danger of political flirtation with PAS, which as an Islamic party won't, can't and will never ever compromise in its ultimate quest to have full syariah laws for Malaysia, ...
... regardless of the fact that there is not one single nation on this globe ruled by syariah laws with the hudud code of penal punishment serving as an exemplary model of an Islamic State - see my post Little evidence of justice in hudud-ruled nations.
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Thus, much as my respect for Tunku Aziz may have cooled somewhat after his unbelievable, unnecessary and unethical sneer at young Zairil Khir, I have to grudgingly admit there is considerable substance in his remarks to Bhai, of the DAP-PAS alliance being an impossible situation because there is no future in a fragile, loveless and dishonest relationship ....., kept barely alive by mutual deception and political expediency.
And let's not mince our words, the alliance has indeed been one of political expediency which will survive as long as (a) there continues to be mutual benefits, and (b) UMNO continues to be in power to serve as a common enemy, and in the unlikely event of (c) DAP accepting PAS' desire for the hudud penal code of punishment as replacement for our civil laws.
But at the same time UMNO is hardly sleeping as its members have been bandying words like PAS-UMNO unity, Malay unity, Muslim unity and even the rather bizarre (but politically deliberate) act of coopting a PAS ulama by the name of Mohamed Kazim Elias into the UMNO Supreme Council, a process complete with and accompanied by the risible to & fro denials from concerned parties, wakakaka.
Of course the most popular phrase, the political saying now in vogue, has to be the PAS-UMNO muzakarah, though I sometimes wonder why we must use the Arabic word 'muzakarah' when there is a perfectly good Indonesian word with the same meaning, 'musyawarah', which in case our local Arab-wannabes are concerned, is also of Arabic origin but one so much used by Indons for so long that it has now acquired Indonesian/SE Asian pedigree, wakakaka.
And it's not as if a good many PAS members have not been receptive to the siren calls of UMNO's repetitive overtures as they are in the end not only PAS Arab-wannabe Muslims but also PAS Malays. After all, even our Esteemed Great One has shown his keenness in having a muzakarah with UMNO, wakakaka - see Malaysiakini'sPakatan Rakyat is open to dialogue, says Anwar.
Thus, the above plus the many times some PAS members have bared their hudud fangs have often made me wonder just for how long will PAS honour its commitment to the Pakatan alliance?
Indeed, how will DAP deal with its Islamic ally, an increasingly arrogant, hudud-hungry and hudud-impatient PAS who believes that total syariah compliance is now almost within reach so much so that Ustaz Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamuddin, a PAS Youth leader, who chairs the National Unity and NGO Relations committee, said: “We have a dream, ..... that one day, Lim Guan Eng, the chief minister of Penang, will ... recite the Kalimah Shahadah.”
The Kalimah Shahada is is an Islamic statement of faith, which affirms belief in the oneness of Allah swt and acceptance of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as God's prophet.
Now, I believe Ustaz Afnan has been totally sincere in yearning for Lim GE, a man no doubt he respects, and also other non-Muslims including kaytee gulp, to embrace the Islamic faith. I am convinced there has been no cynicism in his wish, but I really want to know how DAP in general and Lim GE in particular will deal with such an expectation by DAP's political ally?
It won't be an issue for Anwar Ibrahim, but Lim GE and dad? Let me be frank and say that I'm not confident of a win-win situation. No wakakaka here because of the total sincerity of Ustaz Afnan and the impossibility of his wish.
On DAP's second dot-point, DAP has been known to be a real tight ass when it came to admitting members into its fold, for the reason it fears frogs, unlike a 'taxi sapu' company operating in its vicinity, wakakaka.
But it is nonetheless a dilemma, because as gamblers would advise, unless one actually buys a lottery ticket one will never ever win anything, let alone the jackpot prize. Thus, unless DAP takes the risks to further open up its membership doors, it can never aspire to be a significant national party with many Malay MPs and ADUNs, and endowing it with considerable political powers.
Mind you, it needn't be like the next door 'taxi sapu', wakakaka.
And while it always have Malay members, these have been far too few, therefore it must exert efforts to induct more into its fold.
Of course its task haven't been and won't be easy as most Malays would (a) be suspicious of it as being a mainly Chinese party through years of UMNO propaganda, thus may feel out of place in such a party, (b) see it as an anti-Malay anti-Muslim party, though this perception has changed somewhat since 2008 when it came to power together with PAS and PKR in Penang and Selangor, and (c) probably prefer to join UMNO, PAS or PKR - the last of which had been Zaid Ibrahim's mistake (sigh).
While DAP has since 2008 lost some defectors of all races, including two ADUNs in Perak, wakakaka, it has otherwise been generally successful, but I reckon not successful enough in the specific area of more Malay DAP members being elected as either MPs (only 2 in Dato Ariff Sabri and Zairil Khir) and ADUNs (Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji).
As you know, I have always rooted for my Penang laang, Zulkfli Mohd Noor, a fairly long standing DAP member who came pretty close to winning the Bukit Bendera federal seat in 2004 - for more, read this - but alas, wasn't (for whatever reason?) put up by DAP in 2008 or 2013 very much to my disappointment.
Recently, I read that Zul had a falling out with the party though he still remains a member. This isn't really good for DAP's image to the Malays. I trust whatever disagreement exists may be satisfactorily resolved.
Then what about Aspan Alias? According to looes74 who knows every bloody thing wakakaka, Aspan could well have been MB of Negri Sembilan. He also has had a falling out with DAP though I am not sure whether he is still a member of the party?
The sad story of Aspan and Zul would be one where the party can't find enough seats for them but have been reluctant to sacrifice one of its selected candidates for new Malay members other than high profile ones like Dato Ariff and Zairil Khir.
However, there is only one way, but that will unfortunately bring DAP into a head-on clash with PKR and PAS over more seats, slices in a cake which is of a fixed size. The two Pakatan component parties have already bared their territorial fangs at DAP over allocation of both federal and state seats, but there is no other choice for DAP other than to negotiate real hard or in the worst case scenario, to even go it alone, a voting-splitting bad move as it may be.
Two years ago, my Penang laang, Zul Noor caused an uproar when he gave PKR a taste of its own (greedy, selfish and power-crazy) medicine. Zul demanded that PKR surrender one Parliamentary and 5 State seats in Penang to DAP’s Malay candidates wakakaka.
But on second thoughts, DAP should not wakakaka Zul's assertion. It's time to assertively mark out a larger stake for itself, especially in Penang, Negri Sembilan, Perak and Sarawak. Tell Anwar it'll enhance his PM prospects, wakakaka.
I'm not sure what DAP has in mind but accepting the 2013 limited share will no longer be tenable for its new Malay membership and thus not acceptable.
Finally, the last dot-point, that of the question: To be the same old DAP or a brand new model?
I'm going to ignore the King's advice to Alice and leave this for another post as I feel I have already written quite a lengthy piece, wakakaka.
... regardless of the fact that there is not one single nation on this globe ruled by syariah laws with the hudud code of penal punishment serving as an exemplary model of an Islamic State - see my post Little evidence of justice in hudud-ruled nations.
Thus, much as my respect for Tunku Aziz may have cooled somewhat after his unbelievable, unnecessary and unethical sneer at young Zairil Khir, I have to grudgingly admit there is considerable substance in his remarks to Bhai, of the DAP-PAS alliance being an impossible situation because there is no future in a fragile, loveless and dishonest relationship ....., kept barely alive by mutual deception and political expediency.
And let's not mince our words, the alliance has indeed been one of political expediency which will survive as long as (a) there continues to be mutual benefits, and (b) UMNO continues to be in power to serve as a common enemy, and in the unlikely event of (c) DAP accepting PAS' desire for the hudud penal code of punishment as replacement for our civil laws.
But at the same time UMNO is hardly sleeping as its members have been bandying words like PAS-UMNO unity, Malay unity, Muslim unity and even the rather bizarre (but politically deliberate) act of coopting a PAS ulama by the name of Mohamed Kazim Elias into the UMNO Supreme Council, a process complete with and accompanied by the risible to & fro denials from concerned parties, wakakaka.
Of course the most popular phrase, the political saying now in vogue, has to be the PAS-UMNO muzakarah, though I sometimes wonder why we must use the Arabic word 'muzakarah' when there is a perfectly good Indonesian word with the same meaning, 'musyawarah', which in case our local Arab-wannabes are concerned, is also of Arabic origin but one so much used by Indons for so long that it has now acquired Indonesian/SE Asian pedigree, wakakaka.
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| Only PAS Mursyidul Am, Pak Haji Nik Aziz stands between PAS and UMNO, but for how long? |
And it's not as if a good many PAS members have not been receptive to the siren calls of UMNO's repetitive overtures as they are in the end not only PAS Arab-wannabe Muslims but also PAS Malays. After all, even our Esteemed Great One has shown his keenness in having a muzakarah with UMNO, wakakaka - see Malaysiakini'sPakatan Rakyat is open to dialogue, says Anwar.
Thus, the above plus the many times some PAS members have bared their hudud fangs have often made me wonder just for how long will PAS honour its commitment to the Pakatan alliance?
Indeed, how will DAP deal with its Islamic ally, an increasingly arrogant, hudud-hungry and hudud-impatient PAS who believes that total syariah compliance is now almost within reach so much so that Ustaz Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamuddin, a PAS Youth leader, who chairs the National Unity and NGO Relations committee, said: “We have a dream, ..... that one day, Lim Guan Eng, the chief minister of Penang, will ... recite the Kalimah Shahadah.”
The Kalimah Shahada is is an Islamic statement of faith, which affirms belief in the oneness of Allah swt and acceptance of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as God's prophet.
Now, I believe Ustaz Afnan has been totally sincere in yearning for Lim GE, a man no doubt he respects, and also other non-Muslims including kaytee gulp, to embrace the Islamic faith. I am convinced there has been no cynicism in his wish, but I really want to know how DAP in general and Lim GE in particular will deal with such an expectation by DAP's political ally?
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| any exemption in the Quran for blokes like me, gulp |
It won't be an issue for Anwar Ibrahim, but Lim GE and dad? Let me be frank and say that I'm not confident of a win-win situation. No wakakaka here because of the total sincerity of Ustaz Afnan and the impossibility of his wish.
On DAP's second dot-point, DAP has been known to be a real tight ass when it came to admitting members into its fold, for the reason it fears frogs, unlike a 'taxi sapu' company operating in its vicinity, wakakaka.
But it is nonetheless a dilemma, because as gamblers would advise, unless one actually buys a lottery ticket one will never ever win anything, let alone the jackpot prize. Thus, unless DAP takes the risks to further open up its membership doors, it can never aspire to be a significant national party with many Malay MPs and ADUNs, and endowing it with considerable political powers.
Mind you, it needn't be like the next door 'taxi sapu', wakakaka.
And while it always have Malay members, these have been far too few, therefore it must exert efforts to induct more into its fold.
Of course its task haven't been and won't be easy as most Malays would (a) be suspicious of it as being a mainly Chinese party through years of UMNO propaganda, thus may feel out of place in such a party, (b) see it as an anti-Malay anti-Muslim party, though this perception has changed somewhat since 2008 when it came to power together with PAS and PKR in Penang and Selangor, and (c) probably prefer to join UMNO, PAS or PKR - the last of which had been Zaid Ibrahim's mistake (sigh).
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| alamak, where is my PAS adviser? |
While DAP has since 2008 lost some defectors of all races, including two ADUNs in Perak, wakakaka, it has otherwise been generally successful, but I reckon not successful enough in the specific area of more Malay DAP members being elected as either MPs (only 2 in Dato Ariff Sabri and Zairil Khir) and ADUNs (Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji).
As you know, I have always rooted for my Penang laang, Zulkfli Mohd Noor, a fairly long standing DAP member who came pretty close to winning the Bukit Bendera federal seat in 2004 - for more, read this - but alas, wasn't (for whatever reason?) put up by DAP in 2008 or 2013 very much to my disappointment.
Recently, I read that Zul had a falling out with the party though he still remains a member. This isn't really good for DAP's image to the Malays. I trust whatever disagreement exists may be satisfactorily resolved.
Then what about Aspan Alias? According to looes74 who knows every bloody thing wakakaka, Aspan could well have been MB of Negri Sembilan. He also has had a falling out with DAP though I am not sure whether he is still a member of the party?
The sad story of Aspan and Zul would be one where the party can't find enough seats for them but have been reluctant to sacrifice one of its selected candidates for new Malay members other than high profile ones like Dato Ariff and Zairil Khir.
However, there is only one way, but that will unfortunately bring DAP into a head-on clash with PKR and PAS over more seats, slices in a cake which is of a fixed size. The two Pakatan component parties have already bared their territorial fangs at DAP over allocation of both federal and state seats, but there is no other choice for DAP other than to negotiate real hard or in the worst case scenario, to even go it alone, a voting-splitting bad move as it may be.
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| PKR will take 52 seats, DAP and PAS can share the remaining 19 wakakaka |
Two years ago, my Penang laang, Zul Noor caused an uproar when he gave PKR a taste of its own (greedy, selfish and power-crazy) medicine. Zul demanded that PKR surrender one Parliamentary and 5 State seats in Penang to DAP’s Malay candidates wakakaka.
But on second thoughts, DAP should not wakakaka Zul's assertion. It's time to assertively mark out a larger stake for itself, especially in Penang, Negri Sembilan, Perak and Sarawak. Tell Anwar it'll enhance his PM prospects, wakakaka.
I'm not sure what DAP has in mind but accepting the 2013 limited share will no longer be tenable for its new Malay membership and thus not acceptable.
Finally, the last dot-point, that of the question: To be the same old DAP or a brand new model?
I'm going to ignore the King's advice to Alice and leave this for another post as I feel I have already written quite a lengthy piece, wakakaka.