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Monday, 29 September 2014

cakap cakap : Azmin Ali must be thinking : "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies"


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Thursday, August 7, 2014

PKR...the heir presumptive patiently waits.



 Anwar Ibrahim, Azizah, Nurrul, Nasution, Rafizi and gang are all on the warpath going hammer and tongs for Khalid’s scalp. All the reserves of goodwill and much depleted patience heaped upon them in abundance by a once adoring public are at empty. 

Wither goes Azmin?

When the dust has settled within PKR in the not too distant future I will be so bold as to suggest that Azmin and those patiently biding their time with him, will be left standing within PKR.

What Azmin will make of what is left of PKR is for him to know and for us to find out.

For now bridges are being built, fortresses secured and loyalties reaffirmed within PKR and Pakatan Rakyat to ensure that when Azmin makes his move failure is not an option! Anwar be afraid...be very afraid!
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 steadyaku47 comment: I wrote the above piece early August. Now for the next chapter of PKR.   

Will Azmin Ali deliver the expectations and hope that we have not only for Selangor but for what we want PKR to be and by extension, what Pakatan Rakyat  can be?

For Selangor we want Azmin to manage Selangor as Tan Sri Khalid did - responsibly. We understand that PKR's success must mirror that of Selangor for the future of Selangor and PKR are one and the same thing. This, I think, Azmin will do because he knows that being a politician without real power is frustrating. Now that he has political power within Selangor it is for him to carve out for himself how he will use that power to take Selangor, PKR and himself to another level within Pakatan Rakyat and in national politics. 

In PKR he will,for now, defer to Anwar Ibrahim but Anwar Ibrahim is playing fantasy politics. He has no real power. There is no yardstick to measure his performance as leader of the opposition until the next general election. 

And so for Azmin and Anwar the future will be interesting but fraught with inherent factionalism and division within PKR as individuals realign their loyalties. Do the maths....:

Azmin is MB of the richest state in  Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim is not. 

Azmin Ali has the remaining few years before the next general election, the platform (Selangor) and the financial means (that RM $3 Billion reserves in Selangor's coffers) to prove his worth to PKR, Pakatan Rakyat and the people of Malaysia as to his political worth and will take his place in the march towards Putrajaya. Anwar Ibrahim will most likely spend those few years incarcerated!

In truth I have no sure answer to these questions. No one knows what is in Azmin's heart bar himself but if you have watched Azmin these last few years as I have done (albeit from afar) you will see a man biding his time with grace and patience for what he knows will surely come his way as age and the vagaries of legal and political maneuverings overtakes his mentor and political sifu, Anwar Ibrahim.

While waiting he has been unwavering in his loyalty to Anwar and done all that Anwar has asked of him and more....at times putting on hold his own political aspirations and often risking his own political future. 

Many in PKR have urged him to seize the moment as Anwar floundered many a time under the burden of a relentless pursuit by an Umno bent upon neutralizing him politically and personally and unfortunately by his own folly of shooting himself in his own foot from time to time. Always in the past Azmin was prepared to take the slack or if need be, take the bullet intended for Anwar. He can no longer afford to do that now that he is MB of Selangor. Anwar Ibrahim will be hard pressed to tell the MB of Selangor what to do and those within PKR who find themselves out of Azmin inner circle will tie their political survival to Anwar's. And herein lies Azmin'smain threat not from DAP, PAS or UMNO but from those within PKR who still do the bidding of Anwar Ibrahim. 

"Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies"
Let us look at PKR today. Who is in charge at PKR?

Seriously...who is in charge of PKR? 

Where does the buck stop when things go wrong? When PKR exco have a close door meeting who wields the big stick and read the riot act to bring everyone to heel so that anything that has gone wrong can be put right and anything that needs to be done will be done by the right people, at the right time for the right reasons? 
  
Let us just look at the latest "major" event within PKR - the one dubbed the "Kajang Move". This is classic Anwar Ibrahim. Without doubt it was conceive and concocted by Anwar Ibrahim for Anwar Ibrahim.

It was a "major" decision made without consensus from it's coalition partners because consensus would never have been given by it's coalition partners to a hare brained scheme that involved the dismissal of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim  - a competent and capable Menteri Besar. 

It was a "major" decision flawed from the very beggining when the BN government had Anwar convicted of sodomy. If the village idiot could tell you that that would be the first thing that the AG would do once the Kajang Move was announced, why did not PKR strategist consult the village idiot on this matter before the Kajang Move was launched?

For the past one year PKR has been focused on the Kajang move which has got nothing to do with the core principles of promoting social justice and all the other "stuff" that PKR talks about...nothing at all!  
  
So whoever is running PKR is not doing it right.       

Now let us return to the present.

Who is to tell those 30 Aduns to respond responsibly to the prevailing reality of having to work with PAS if Selangor is to have any hope to remain PKR's after the next general election? In this I believe that since Azmin had direct involvement in their appointment, their loyalties will be with Azmin Ali - at least while he is MB.

But the sniping has already started from within PKR!

Who will tell Zuraidah Mansor to shup the f@*k up and leave the appointment of Selangor's EXCO to the MB to do the necessary. Woi Zuraidah Timbalan President sendiri pon tak sokong?

Anwar Ibrahim instructs Azmin Al to expose every company and individual who benefited from the water deal signed by Khalid when he was MB. Anwar also lamented over the lack of transparency and expressed his unhappiness that many of these contracts were signed in a hurry by Khalid just before leaving office. Huh...this coming from the de fecto leader of PKR that presided over the last party elections that took many many months to conclude...and that too concluded unsatisfactorily as many questions are still to be answered as to the manner in which it was conducted. 

Has the process of undermining Azmin Ali from within PKR already started?

Remember "Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies?" ......Azmin have better hit the ground running because with friends like those in PKR, he has no need of any more enemies! 

But as I have said in my earlier piece "For now bridges are being built, fortresses secured and loyalties reaffirmed within PKR and Pakatan Rakyat to ensure that when Azmin makes his move failure is not an option! 

Well Azmin has made his move.....let us see where he goes from here!




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