Gerakan’s Most Important Decisions Made By… Umno?
If Gerakan was voted in to lead Penang, why on earth is Penang’s leader being chosen by Umno?
I have always maintained that Gerakan, MCA & MIC have never been able to stand up to Umno, but this is an entirely new low.
It is wrong for Koh Tsu Koon to say that Abdullah should choose the next Chief Minister of Penang because:
1 – It is the rakyat that will choose which party will lead Penang
2 – It is the party that leads Penang that should choose the Chief Minister of Penang
Koh Tsu Koon is either failing to respect a very simple, basic political process, or he is conceding that Umno will in fact lead Penang should BN win at the polls.
Clearly what the rakyat thinks is not as important to him as what Umno thinks.
This man’s indecisiveness is also appalling. He opens his mouth only when Abdullah says “If he can’t make a decision, let me do it”
Even more shockingly, when he does open his mouth, he says “Err.. I want like thislah… but hehe… err, you decide for melah Pak Lah”
O_O
Just how Zzzzz do you have to be for Abdullah “Zzzzz” Badawi himself to make decisions for you? As YB Lim (who must be congratulated for his recovery) put it, Khairy is already working to decide who will be the Menteri Besar for every other state on the Peninsular, now he’s going to decide for Penang too?
It also appears that Koh Tsu Koon’s leadership of his own party so weak that he cannot even risk choosing among his men. Passing the buck to Abdullah to make the difficult and politically costly decision is about the weakest, most cowardly thing to do.
Maybe he also knows Penang is going to fall to the Opposition, and is too chicken to take the blame when the inevitable comes about.
If this is calibre of the man who supposed to lead the ‘conscience’ of BN, no wonder BN has such lame moral stature.
I guess it’s time for Penangites to decide whether they want an alternative DAP/KeADILan led government that is built on equality, or on the other, a state government where Umno calls all the shots.
You can be sure that the BN machinery will pump a lot of money & goodies into trying to win the Penang votes.
If Penangites can separate the business of politics from the politics of business, then perhaps the oppostion may have an opportunity to wrest this from the incumbents.
The winds of change are blowing. Focus on the issues and not the handouts.
Well said, Nat,
the people in Penang should wise up and vote for a competent party to represent them and not let Gerakan’s controller an outsider dictate terms as only the party itself ’should’ know the people who had voted for them.
As for developments/projects – time will tell how much it’s going to benefit or ruin the state or people (like the PGCC project).
So you get what you vote.