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Monday, August 18, 2014

The sword of Damocles – Tay Tian Yan

Whatever the decision, it appears that there is no way for Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to evade the fate of being forsaken.
Khalid might as well be in the “past tense”, no matter how tough he can be. His days as Selangor menteri besar are seriously numbered.
The moment he axed the six exco members from PKR and DAP, he was putting his own career life to an end, although there was some legitimacy to his MB post prior to that, and his relatively weak posture had won him a lot of compassion.
Khalid exercised his power to get rid of his opponents, turning him from the role of a victim to one of victimiser. The sympathy he had won from the public now became a common abhorrence.
He has failed to see the close relationship between power and risk and has destroyed his own career, having abused the power entrusted to him.
This gives both PKR and DAP more valid reasons to demonise him as die-hard Pakatan fans loathe him and PAS is trying to keep a distance from him. Even middle voters are shunning him now.
There are some constitutional limitations to the sultan's support for him, and there is no way Khalid can hide behind this limited space for too long. Somehow, he has to face the music, earliest by end of this month and latest by November.
If PAS exco members resign en masse, it will mean a total collapse of the Khalid administration. A fresh state election must then be called.
Some are of the opinion that Khalid may appoint Umno reps into his team in order to continue his stint as MB. But it is unlikely that Umno will jump into this sinking ship of Khalid.
Umno has its own plans and will never be so dumb as to bind itself to Khalid and sink with him just for the sake of a few months of power sharing.
In the end, whether Khalid's team completely collapses in the very near future or drags on until a no-confidence motion is tabled against him in November, it is inevitable that the state assembly will be dissolved and a fresh election called.
The sword of Damocles has not only wounded Khalid himself but also the entire Pakatan Rakyat. Who will be next after Khalid?
And the question now is not about Khalid Ibrahim but Kak Wan.
Both PKR and DAP have a very tough stance: There is only one candidate for the MB post. If PAS does not accept that, that is the end of the story.
PAS’s hidden but unwavering stand: The MB can indeed be replaced, but the replacement must be someone other than Kak Wan.
This has developed into a fight between PKR/DAP and PAS, both sides having their own calculations and trying to subdue the other.
There is something called the Chicken Game seen in this kind of tussle.
Two cars approaching from opposite directions in a straight line on a one-lane street, both showing no signs of giving way to the other.
The crisis could be resolved if one party gives way, but that party would be seen as a coward.
No one wants to be a coward. Both sides think that the more they press on, the more likely the other party will be to back away.
In the end, they crash to their own deaths.
PKR/DAP and PAS are playing the same game now, thinking the other side will back off without realising that their recalcitrance will completely crush Pakatan Rakyat.
I don't understand why they are all so headstrong – why PKR/DAP has insisted on Kak Wan and why PAS has uncompromisingly rejected her.
Is this really that important after all? – mysinchew.com

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