Who Should Lead Pakatan Rakyat?

I've added a new category on political opinions since I figured that they may be more political ideas that I can gather from now on. Credits on this post I would give to my usual political contributors which is Sdr. Ainul Aizat, Sdr. Nimalan as well as a new comer which is Sdr. Gajendran. Thanks guys!

   

The members of Pakatan Rakyat. Who should lead?

Let me be clear that I am NOT  a Pakatan Rakyat supporter, which I have obviously made it clear from my previous post. However, I believe that for the purpose of intellectual discussion of an issue, one must be able to discuss any political topic without support biasness. Once again a quick reminder, this post is not to generate political hate, but merely to collect opinions from the general public.

The Big Three of Pakatan Rakyat

With my discussion with the boys, I've wondered with the creation of the relatively new coalition, surely there will be an issue as to who would actually take the lead it, as agreed by the members of the coalition and we've come up with quite interesting issues on this matter.

For me as well as Aizat personally, we argued that the helm of the coalition should be to the party with the most experience in the business. Set aside the political drama that goes on, lets look at it in a logical process of elimination. Between the member parties, PAS as well as DAP are the only one that can actually say they have experience on running a particular state, Kelantan for the matter of PAS and Penang for the matter of DAP. If we are really looking at the coalition trying to run the country, we should then assess the track record of the parties involved and therefore, I based my arguments on this matter. While we have DAP have built a solid support over the years, I believe that they still lack the trust among the general public to actually run a country. If their main notion is to run the country as Malaysia for Malaysian, unfortunately that most people, particularly the Malays, would not want them to lead the country as a whole. 

Now we have PAS, who may in the past have shown many flaws within their policies over the years but are the only one that can actually show the best track record of running a state between the three. Of course, the other three parties would also argue that they too have their own track record but not as long as compared to PAS. They put forth to their supporters over the years of the economic, political and social policies in every campaign and therefore making their supporters more aware of their intention of running the state. Perhaps under these circumstances, I would honestly feel that PAS has the better bargain in their bid to lead Pakatan Rakyat entirely.

Nimalan gave a very interesting view on the matter which was supported by Gajendran, that there should not be a lead within the coalition as the party should run on a "power sharing scheme" based on trust as well as awareness. His arguments were that since the entire coalition has been built of the notion of trust between the three parties, why should there be a party that tries to out step the others in the coalition. Their main focus should be pursuing a policy that ALL of the members agree upon and having one party to lead the coalition would only shape a possible disproportionate policy between the three parties. By having a party to lead the coalition would remove the "check and balance" system in which the coalition have been fighting for all this time.

So, what do you guys think? I would love to see more opinions of people on this matter. Please keep your language in check people and strictly no cowards who want to post their comments anonymously. You want to have a voice, make sure you put a pretty little face to that voice.


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