GE 13 : Can Pakatan Provide a Stable Government?

Investment and economic growth only come with stability, with a strong government committed to firm and consistent regulation. Barisan Nasional's stability has made possible the tremendous economic growth since the global slowdown began in 2009.
Pakatan Rakyat insist they can form a stable government. They have yet to show they can, or that they desire to do so.
Since GE12, Pakatan Rakyat's component parties have warred over the imposition of hudud law to the 'Allah' issue; who should be the pact's choice for Prime Minister; and a never-ending battle over seat allocation.
Pakatan is inherently a study in conflict. PAS' and the DAP's differences transcend policy. PKR has been unable to bridge these differences in a way that does not end with the DAP National Chairman suing PAS officers.
Pakatan's leaders assure us that good ties between the pact's leaders assure harmony – yet the same ties did not stop Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang from essentially nominating himself for Prime Minister, without consulting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, PKR or the DAP.
The parties themselves have not been spared. PAS attempted to harmonise away its tension with the DAP by adopting its short-lived 'welfare state' model. This drove the party into internal schism, with the hudud issue (and battles with the DAP) rising to the fore again as a result.
DAP's attempt to prove it was Malay-friendly ended in Tunku Abdul Aziz's ejection from the party over its support of social disorder. Matters were worse when the party's Central Executive Committee elections were either fouled or rigged so that the election of a single Malay in a sea of Chinese launched a revolt in the Chinese and Malay grassroots.
PKR has devolved into an ongoing civil war, touched off by the 2010 party convention. After allegations of rigged elections, feuds between former party officer Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, deputy president Azmin Ali, president Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, and Nurul Izzah Anwar began, crippling the party's policy and governance efforts.
These fights have spilled into governance. Penang's Pakatan factions have engaged in a covert war that flares up regularly. Selangor governance is now a proxy for the PKR civil war, with water supply and rubbish collection among the casualties.
Kedah's PAS is in a more than figurative civil war, as the war of words between Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak and Deputy Commissioner Datuk Phahrolrazi Zawai turned into an alleged 'kidnapping' of Phahrolrazi by Azizan's allies last month. That, of course, came after PAS grassroots threatened to report Azizan to the MACC.
Kelantan is the sole exception, an island of stability – a stability of constant traffic, economic malaise and no clean water.
Unsurprisingly, foreign direct investment into Penang and Kedah have tumbled.
This is the 'success story' Pakatan would export to Malaysia as a whole: chaos, in-fighting, conflict and the consequent end of the boom of the last four years.