Enough of senseless politicking. Ready for a third force?
My article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 7/8/2014 While the Umno-dominated ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) is busy playing the divisive racial and religious card, its rivals in Pakatan Rakyat are doing no better with their endless politicking. The hopes of the people for effective checks and balances are fast evaporating. PKR, DAP and PAS are now tussling with one another almost every day on who among them should take precedence, threatening to tear the coalition apart. Have Pakatan leaders forgotten how should they run their state governments and show the people that they can be refreshingly different from BN? Just exactly where are their policymakers and what they had promised to fight for in the last general election? There are still many outstanding issues and where matters have been attended to there were no regular follow-ups to ensure closure. Following the 2008 general election, a reasonable quota of local council appointments was given to civil societies and frater...