In a political rally in Mukah
last night to introduce Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s candidate for N51 Balingian’s
by-election, Mat Sabu, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia’s (PAS) deputy president slipped
a statement that would make a lot of voters reconsider the validity of the
so-called “Kajang Move” that has unnecessarily thrown the Kajang constituency
into a state of disarray – that said move IS
done so that Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) de-facto leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim
can become the new Chief Minister of Selangor.
In the middle of his heated
speech outside a shop lot in Mukah, he casually insinuated that the reason why
the Malaysian Court of Appeals reached a verdict in deliberating Anwar’s sodomy
case in record time was to ensure that he would not be able to be named as PR’s
candidate for the Kajang by-election. And then, things got really interesting.
“Kalau bicara bulan 4 nanti, kemungkinan Anwar sudah jadi Menteri Besar
Selangor. Maka dia sukar lah nak meng-jail-kan seorang Menteri Besar. …kalau
tiada undi tak percaya di Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor, Anwar akan didapati
bersalah, terpaksa masuk jail sebagai Menteri Besar.”
(If the trial is done in April,
there is a chance that Anwar will already become Menteri Besar of Selangor.
Thus, it will be difficult to put him in jail as a Menteri Besar. …If there is
no vote of no-confidence in Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor, Anwar will be found
guilty, and will be forced to enter jail as a Menteri Besar.)
“Maka ia akan menggoncang arasy’ Malaysia dan diperhatikan oleh dunia.
Oleh itu kita lihat Jabatan Kehakiman diarahkan buat keputusan segera.”
(This will shake Malaysia to its
core and we will be watched all over the world. That is why we see Jabatan
Kehakiman was ordered to reach a verdict quickly.)
His statements come across not
only as a rancid insult to the Malaysian judiciary and our judicial process,
but also a slap to the face to the Pakatan Rakyat constituency in Kajang, which
has seen their incumbent assemblyman Lee Chin Cheh resign on the 27th
January. PKR strategist Rafizi Ramli engineered the move and try to give it a
catchy name in order to allow Anwar to become part of Selangor’s Dewan Rakyat,
but has never made the party’s true intentions crystal clear.
Anwar, and PKR’s top politicians
have tried very hard to deny the rumour that he will be made Menteri Besar
before this, as to not allow the people to know just how horrible the
infighting within the party leadership actually is. With the state government
tangled in various issues, they cannot afford to even bicker on political
matters and instead focus on the holistic development of the state, as they
have mentioned so often before. However, the reality is that they are
struggling to keep hold of Selangor, and their gamble in Kajang is starting to
leave them empty-handed.
With Anwar’s conviction in the
Court of Appeal in his sodomy case, him being replaced by his wife Wan Azizah
as the PKR candidate in Kajang, two of their seats in Pulau Pinang left hung to
dry and recent news reports saying that the by-election, at RM1.6 million will
be the costliest by-election yet, not even Rafizi’s pre-emptive apology on an
editorial he wrote online can even begin to mask the damage PKR have done. As
such, it is plain for everyone to see that Kajang has been reduced into both a sacrificial
lamb and a lab rat at the same time.
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