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Anwar was hoping that Hadi would be out of office by now. But Hadi is still holding on
so efforts need to be stepped up to ensure a leadership change in PAS. And this is
what PasMa and the RM1.5 million that Lim Guan Eng gave them is supposed to
achieve.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Two weeks ago, on 12th January 2015, the President of Persatuan Ummah Sejahtera
Malaysia or PasMa, Phahrolrazi Mat Zawawi, led a delegations of 15 members to meet
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
The purpose of the meeting was to explore how PasMa can collaborate with DAP and PKR
for the coming general election expected by 2018 at the latest. Also discussed was the
possibility of PasMa becoming a political party to replace PAS in Pakatan Rakyat.
Is PasMa going to become PAS Baru? And does this mean PAS is on the verge of leaving
Pakatan Rakyat or is going to get kicked out of Pakatan Rakyat?
The talk on the ground is that it would be untenable for PAS to remain in Pakatan Rakyat
unless they change their President. DAP and PKR can continue working with PAS only if
Abdul Hadi Awang is kicked out and is replaced by, say, Mat Sabu, the current number two.
What was not reported was that Lim Guan Eng gave PasMa RM1.5 million, which is
supposed to be for flood relief work. However, so far none of that RM1.5 million has beenused for the purpose it was alleged. Talk amongst PasMa circles is that the RM1.5 million is
for the purpose of campaigning against Hadi to ensure he is kicked out before the next
general election.
It is no secret that Hadi is lukewarm, or maybe even cold, towards DAP and PKR. That is
already a well-known fact and Hadi has, in fact, not been attending any of the Pakatan
Rakyat council meetings since the last year or so. And the Kajang Move plus the move to
oust Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim is not the only reason for this.
DAP and PKR are very upset that Hadi no longer supports what Pakatan Rakyat considersthe coalitions common agenda. As Anwar Ibrahim always says, Pakatan Rakyat agrees to
disagree. Hence Hadi has agreed to disagree with DAP and PKR on many issues. Other than
the Kajang Move and the move to oust Khalid, Hadi also disagrees with DAP and PKR
regarding the implementation of Hudud in Kelantan and the proposal for local council
elections.
As the Malays would say: tidur satu bantal, mimpi lain-lain. PAS no longer shares the same
dreams with DAP, while PKR either maintains an elegant silence or agrees to disagree with
PAS.
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It is not easy to sleep in the same bed and share the same pillow while having different
dreams. And PAS has to now consider sharing DAPs and PKRs dreams or else they will
have to leave the bedroom. And if this happens then PasMa will need to replace PAS in the
Pakatan Rakyat bed.
Anwar Ibrahim has other problems on his hands and has no time to engage DAP and PAS in
their marital problems. On 10th February 2015, the Federal Court will be delivering its verdict
on Anwars sodomy conviction and this is of immediate concern to the opposition leader.
Will Anwar be set free or will he be sent to jail? Anwar is telling the public that there is no
reason he should be sent to jail because there is no case against him.
What the Federal Court will have to consider is not whether Anwar is innocent or guilty of
sodomy. That is not really the concern of the Federal Court. Instead, what the Federal Court
needs to consider is whether there were any flaws in the trial and whether the Court of
Appeal erred in overturning the acquittal and in coming to a guilty verdict.
The outcome will depend on whether Anwars lawyers were successful in convincing the
court that the trial was flawed and that the Court of Appeal had erred in overturning the
acquittal and in convicting Anwar. If so then the Federal Court would have to overturn the
decision of the Appeal Court and Anwar would walk free.
In anticipation of an unfavourable verdict, Anwar is telling the world that he will be freed and
in the event he is not freed then he would be a victim of a political conspiracy. Anwar is laying
the ground for a revival of the Reformasi Movement, which emerged during his Sodomy 1
trial.
Reformasi 1, however, was successful because of PAS. Hence if PAS does not support
Reformasi 2 then it will die at childbirth. And Anwar knows that Hadi will not waste time
supporting Reformasi 2. In fact, most PAS leaders, Mat Sabu included, are of the opinion that
Anwar is guilty.
Anwar knows that PAS will not support Reformasi 2 because during the recent hearing PAS
did not mobilise any crowd as a show of support. Rafizi Ramli had sent instructions to all the
PKR branches to send down a few busloads of supporters to attend the hearing. The aim was
to get at least 50,000 supporters but all they got was a few hundred, and hardly any PAS
members.
This upset Anwar even further. If he cannot get tens of thousands onto the streets then he
cannot pressure the government to release him. He was hoping for a Tahrir Square scenario
but a few hundred on the streets does not quite make it. And this is what worries Anwar.
Anwar was hoping that Hadi would be out of office by now. But Hadi is still holding on so
efforts need to be stepped up to ensure a leadership change in PAS. And this is what PasMa
and the RM1.5 million that Lim Guan Eng gave them is supposed to achieve.
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