Stop bickering about "state cabinet" posts, PKR told

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Ever since the Sarawak DAP chairman Wong Ho Leng made an announcement on the state shadow cabinet for the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition in the state legislative assembly, PKR has never stop bickering over its share on the allocation of the shadow cabinet's portfolios.

It seems that PKR wanted a larger share over the portfolios in the shadow cabinet and they are asking for more eventhough they only have three state assemblymen.

Well, let's be fair to all and take these facts out for everyone to judge. Prior to the Sarawak state elections, DAP has been making its preparations since July 2010, design and developing its own campaign strategies and on how to make inroads to targeted areas. Besides, the state DAP had fully swing its election machinery into full scale since mid of last year with active programmes and highlights, such as seminars, trainings, on the ground visits, house to house review, getting to know the electorates, organizing meetings with the people on regular basis and so on.

And while DAP has been initiating all these electoral moves ever since July 2010, PKR has been bickering with its party elections, selection of candidates, factional infightings and about the allocation seats to be contested. They are making so much fuss about those seats that they wanted to contest and to an extent wanted to contest about 49 state seats. They are being so over-confident that they had forgotten to go deeper into the grounds of the Sarawak rural divisions and districts to bring their party's message to the people there.

As the result, DAP won almost all the state seats that it had contested, while PKR won 3 out of the 49 seats that they had contested. And now they even have "face" to demand more portfolios in the recently announced shadow cabinet in the state. What kind of right and stature does PKR has to demand so many portfolios? Do they have sufficient state assemblymen to hold all those portfolios that they demanded?

If PKR were to manage to gain those portfolios that they had demanded, can all their three state assemblymen carry out their duties and responsibilities with too many portfolios on their shoulders effectively? With too many portfolios for the three PKR state assemblymen, are they able perform effectively?

Look, DAP had effectively done all their homework and they deserve a better positioning in the shadow cabinet than PKR. Since its establishment in Sarawak, the DAP had managed to put itself as a state-based political party, while PKR had failed and the people there still regard PKR as a peninsular-based party trying to interfere into the state political arena. That is why the state BN had managed to curb PKR influence in this way.

We urge PKR not to be overly greedy and stand where they are right now with their only three state assemblymen. Learn your lessons and be prepared as early as possible for the next state election. Stop your factional fightings, stop dreaming of contesting all the seats and start learning how to give and take, learn how to negotiate instead of demanding too much and in the end you only gain nothing out of it.

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