Berita Daily : Today Azmin is leader of PKR in everything but name. He has not been tainted by the Selangor MB debacle. He, not Azizah, has the numbers in PKR to get what he wants done.

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08/10/2015 08:22 AM

Is there a revolt brewing within PKR?

What deal will be struck to have Anwar as the PM designate should the opposition somehow manage to win a general election?

Hussein Hamid

We are told that DAP and PKR are in talks, re the formation of Pakatan Harapan without PAS. Let me rephrase that to allow ordinary folk to understand what is really happening.

Lim Kit Siang and Anwar Ibrahim, through Anwar's proxy/wife/alter ego, are in discussions to ensure that Anwar will be the designated Prime Minister should a DAP and PKR coalition (with anybody else) win a general election....any general election!

If Anwar, for whatever reason (Sungai Buloh included) cannot be PM, then Azizah will be his proxy PM/will be PM until Anwar can be PM/Azizah will be PM and do as Anwar bids her to do. Tick whichever of the above is, in your opinion, applicable.

Yes folks, it is not DAP and PKR who are discussing these things - it is Kit Siang and Anwar. Numero uno on their agenda is: What deal will DAP and PKR have to do with each other to have Anwar as the designated PM should the opposition somehow manage to win a general election!

If it means keeping PAS out of Pakatan Rakyat for Kit Siang to endorse Anwar as the designated PM, Azizah will agree! And damn what anybody else wants! That is why there is a revolt fermenting within PKR.

There are enough elements within PKR who will tell the Anwar's family that nepotism is a not in the best interest of PKR. Do these elements have the numbers to succeed in what they want to do? Well for starters, 25 members of the MPP have signed on the dotted line to ask Azizah to explain why her 'bikin' (deed) is different from her 'cakap' (word).

The issue at hand is simply this: 1 Anwar wants to be PM. 2 DAP wants PAS out of the coalition. 3 PKR wants PAS included in any opposition coalition.

No ambiguity in issue number one: Anwar Ibrahim wants to be PM.

Issue number two: DAP wants PAS out for a number of reasons. Bottom line, DAP does not need PAS to hold on to, and to govern Penang and there is bad blood between Kit Siang and Hadi (like school kids fighting at interval over petty things!)
Issue number three: PKR needs PAS to hold on to and govern Selangor.

Anything else bandied about by anyone else is pure gobbledygook...pure 'tempoyak' or 'budu' i.e. preferred by some but dismissed by the many others.

If you think there are shades of the Selangor MB melodrama here...you are right! Remember? Unable to be MB, Anwar wanted to keep it all in the family and wanted Azizah to be MB in his place. They had they numbers, so they said; They had the support of DAP and PKR, they said; all done bar the Fat Lady singing, they said!

'No!' said the Sultan, 'No!' said PAS, Yes!' said Azmin. End of story. Finito! Azizah out. Azmin became MB!

Same situation today with Pakatan Harapan but Azmin Ali is no longer the same Azmin of the pre-MB Selangor days. Today Azmin is leader of PKR in everything but name. He has not been tainted by the Selangor MB debacle. He, not Azizah, has the numbers in PKR to get what he wants done.

To hold on to and govern Selangor, Azmin needs PAS. Azmin will have PAS!

Damn the people of Selangor

That is if you believe that when it comes to putting the matter to the rank and file within PKR to vote for PAS' exclusion or inclusion in any new coalition of the opposition, it really is PKR and not Anwar Ibrahim who will finally decide!

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