No To Unity Government
22 June 2009 | 72 viewsSo ends the “Sayang UMNO” campaign:
Pakatan Rakyat’s top leadership today unanimously rejected the formation of a unity government with Umno or Barisan Nasional.
… This was revealed in a joint statement inked by Opposition Leader and PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.
“The Pakatan council of leaders has reaffirmed its rejection of the idea of forming a unity government with Umno/BN which is clearly a malicious and desperate attempt to compromise the integrity of the increasingly popular Pakatan Rakyat,” read the statement.
The statement was issued after its leaders held a one-hour 40 minute meeting to discuss the matter in one of the meeting rooms in the Parliament building.
… Besides the three main leaders, others present at the meeting were PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, her deputy Syed Husin Ali, vice-presidents Azmin Ali and R Sivarasa.
Others include DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, DAP Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai, PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali, vice-president Mahfuz Omar and central committee member and Bukit Gantang MP Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin. [Malaysiakini]
Note that Nasharuddin Mat Isa, who is an MP, was not present at the meeting, which was held in the Parliament building.
In any case, his absence is now moot, as things will be settled soon:
PAS president Abdul Hadi … assured that differences between party spiritual leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and deputy president Nasharuddin Mat Isa “will be resolved tonight.”
Sounds good to me.
TERIMA kasih kepada Tok Guru Nik Aziz.
He took a principled stand and he stood firm.
You da man, Tok Guru. You da man.
TO UMNO and Utusan, it was a damn good try, dudes.
You guys nearly pulled it off. Outstanding shite.
Please don’t take this too hard. If at first you don’t succeed, then fail and fail again.
Okay, okay, I’s just kidding.
In any case, the door to cooperation is not slammed shut. We can still have a chat.
The Pakatan Rakyat leaders have agreed that collective talks with Barisan Nasional could be held on:
… economic recovery, improving the quality of education, restoring the integrity of the judiciary, abolishing the Internal Security Act and the handling of the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) … the blatant abuse of power by the police, increasing crime rate, eradication of corruption, establishment of good governance and the holding of an immediate free and fair election to resolve the Perak crisis.
I’m sure you would agree that that’s a lot of shit to talk about.
4 Responses to “No To Unity Government”
1 martin 22 June 2009 @ 7:31 pm
Tok Guru is a pious ulamak and a principled man, I had upmost admiration for him. He lives in a modest home, and he genuinely cares for the well being of the Kelantan folks.
He might not be the suave politician, but he’ll get my vote any time. We need people like him at the top, never mind that he might not have that grand business vision, he can always hire advisers to show him that. We just need honest leaders at the top.
2 skoope 23 June 2009 @ 1:27 am
Too much ado about nothing. How can even talking between two political parties from such a small country can make such a havoc. Methinks even Obama and Ahmadinejad sitting together wouldn’t make such an uproar and this about a Nuclear War issue. From the beginning I thought the talk of Unity Govn needs to be form to tackle the current economic issues, or perhaps with ISA etc…. and this is bad why??? Do you think UMNO ideologically can easily become PAS or vice versa. I think most Malaysian are scared of their own shadows.
3 hari 24 June 2009 @ 9:27 am
whatever it is there is a trend now to ridicule TGNA. You can see it all the local news and UTUSAN. I hope the PAKATAN members will come out to defend him.
4 Kunyit 8 July 2009 @ 8:01 pm
All three compenent party have differing objectives. This will not last. Logically they will continue on disagreeing and the Malaysian people will bear the brunt of the problems. Solidarity is not in a picture like you post above, but in the actions that they take. Penang issues on high chaparal shows that the state gov is ineffective, promises given are not kept. Aisehman, you can condemn all you want but the pakatan now is worse at administrating the states than BN was. I know this comment will not be posted but come on!! dont deny the truth.
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