Sabah Pakatan Rakyat is yet to consolidate its list of candidates as it toys with STAR and SAPP.
KUALA LUMPUR: With nominations just days away, speculations are rife that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is engaging Jeffrey Kitingan’s State Reform Party (STAR) in a 11th hour bid to find a solution to what promises to be a crippling election for Pakatan Rakyat if it remains adamant and uncompromising on Sabah seats.
Nomination is set for April 20 and by tomorrow all state Barisan Nasional component parties would have announced their list of candidates.
In Sabah, KadazanDusunMurut (KDM)-based Upko and Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) have already announced their candidates. Umno, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are expected to follow suit.
Amidst this, Sabah Pakatan Rakyat is yet to consolidate its list.
A pre-emptive announcement of some candidates by PKR Tuaran division chief Ansari Abdullah earlier this month, which was later rubbished by party deputy president Azmin Ali, has made clear the depth of distrust and angst within PKR members of the PKR central leadership.
As such, these late-in-day “talks” with local parties can only mean that Anwar is troubled.
Barely a week ago, Anwar said he would direct Sabah Pakatan to re-open talks – which he had himself terminated – with Sabah Progressive People’s Party (SAPP).
Anwar had, at one point, ridiculed SAPP when he asked the party to prove its worth. And this too after incessant meetings dating back to 2011 to discuss possible straight fights.
But SAPP sources said today that they have not been approached “as yet and time is running out”.
SAPP is aiming to contest in 20 state and about 10 parliamentary seats.
STAR, meanwhile, is targeting to contest in at least 40 state and up to 20 parliamentary seats.
Word is that STAR, while weak on infrastructure, has a KDM-reach that outruns PKR’s and Anwar knows this.
Thus, this explains the move to reach out to Jeffrey. According to sources, Anwar’s man spoke to Jeffrey late last week and “made him an offer”.
Meanwhile, rippling through the grapevine here are talks that Anwar’s partiality towards Wilfred Bumburing and Lajim Ukin has backfired. Both defected from Barisan Nasional in July last year, pledging their allegiance to Anwar vis-a-vis PKR.
Anwar had left Bumburing to harness the KDMs and Lajim to look into the Muslim votes.
Herein lies the hiccup. Rumours are that Pakatan needs a bulk of KDM votes and that it doesn’t have it yet.
A wily politician
Said a PKR member, who declined to be named: “The situation has changed. The Muslim seats can go anywhere. Lajim has influence over a few Bisaya seats.
“But Wilfred [Bumburing] is in trouble. People don’t trust him. Our members are saying if he [Bumburing] is sincere, then why is he not a PKR member? They will not support any of his candidates.”
Both Bumburing and Lajim are MPs and are likely to defend their Tuaran and Beaufort seats under the PKR banner. Both have also been pushing for their own followers to be given seats and that has not gone down well with members.
But Anwar is going all-out to get Putrajaya and has declared that he needs the numbers from Sabah and Sarawak to cap their quest.
With just days to go before nomination, there is both scepticism and hope in Anwar’s olive branch extended to the Chinese-dominated SAPP and KDM-fuelled STAR.
Anwar is a wily politician who is apt at playing political poker. His is a hand that can either lift or kill you, a fact that both Jeffrey and SAPP president Yong Teck Lee are well aware of.
Both STAR and SAPP have been championing the cause of the Sabahans and the right to determine their own destiny which they alleged the federal government had hijacked decades ago.
Jeffrey, on his part, has been specific with his call to Sabahans to vote local and Pakatan “is not local”.
A political marriage between them, even a temporary one, will as such give Sabahans a fair chance at taking control of the state even if BN decides to plant its “agents” to split the votes.
But thus far there has been no indication that straight fights in Sabah’s 60 state and 25 parliamentary seats are likely.
Sabahans, natives included, are not as mindless as the political folks in Putrajaya wish to believe.
The unprecedented revelations spinning out of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the insidious federal agenda to neutralise Christian natives by legalising thousands of illegal Muslim immigrants to ensure Umno-BN stays in power, the “timing” of the Lahad Datu incursions, the consolidation of the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) – which houses 11 parliamentary and 30 state seats – and the Petronas “scam” on local contractors have deeply scarred Sabahans.
Looking ahead, the only road left is for Sabahans to reclaim the right to “rule” their state the way they see fit.
The question now is, will Anwar and Pakatan set aside their personal demands and help Sabahans achieve this “right”?
If he does, what will be the price of this tryst?
KUALA LUMPUR: With nominations just days away, speculations are rife that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is engaging Jeffrey Kitingan’s State Reform Party (STAR) in a 11th hour bid to find a solution to what promises to be a crippling election for Pakatan Rakyat if it remains adamant and uncompromising on Sabah seats.Nomination is set for April 20 and by tomorrow all state Barisan Nasional component parties would have announced their list of candidates.
In Sabah, KadazanDusunMurut (KDM)-based Upko and Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) have already announced their candidates. Umno, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) are expected to follow suit.
Amidst this, Sabah Pakatan Rakyat is yet to consolidate its list.
A pre-emptive announcement of some candidates by PKR Tuaran division chief Ansari Abdullah earlier this month, which was later rubbished by party deputy president Azmin Ali, has made clear the depth of distrust and angst within PKR members of the PKR central leadership.
As such, these late-in-day “talks” with local parties can only mean that Anwar is troubled.
Barely a week ago, Anwar said he would direct Sabah Pakatan to re-open talks – which he had himself terminated – with Sabah Progressive People’s Party (SAPP).
Anwar had, at one point, ridiculed SAPP when he asked the party to prove its worth. And this too after incessant meetings dating back to 2011 to discuss possible straight fights.
But SAPP sources said today that they have not been approached “as yet and time is running out”.
SAPP is aiming to contest in 20 state and about 10 parliamentary seats.
STAR, meanwhile, is targeting to contest in at least 40 state and up to 20 parliamentary seats.
Word is that STAR, while weak on infrastructure, has a KDM-reach that outruns PKR’s and Anwar knows this.
Thus, this explains the move to reach out to Jeffrey. According to sources, Anwar’s man spoke to Jeffrey late last week and “made him an offer”.
Meanwhile, rippling through the grapevine here are talks that Anwar’s partiality towards Wilfred Bumburing and Lajim Ukin has backfired. Both defected from Barisan Nasional in July last year, pledging their allegiance to Anwar vis-a-vis PKR.
Anwar had left Bumburing to harness the KDMs and Lajim to look into the Muslim votes.
Herein lies the hiccup. Rumours are that Pakatan needs a bulk of KDM votes and that it doesn’t have it yet.
A wily politician
Said a PKR member, who declined to be named: “The situation has changed. The Muslim seats can go anywhere. Lajim has influence over a few Bisaya seats.
“But Wilfred [Bumburing] is in trouble. People don’t trust him. Our members are saying if he [Bumburing] is sincere, then why is he not a PKR member? They will not support any of his candidates.”
Both Bumburing and Lajim are MPs and are likely to defend their Tuaran and Beaufort seats under the PKR banner. Both have also been pushing for their own followers to be given seats and that has not gone down well with members.
But Anwar is going all-out to get Putrajaya and has declared that he needs the numbers from Sabah and Sarawak to cap their quest.
With just days to go before nomination, there is both scepticism and hope in Anwar’s olive branch extended to the Chinese-dominated SAPP and KDM-fuelled STAR.
Anwar is a wily politician who is apt at playing political poker. His is a hand that can either lift or kill you, a fact that both Jeffrey and SAPP president Yong Teck Lee are well aware of.
Both STAR and SAPP have been championing the cause of the Sabahans and the right to determine their own destiny which they alleged the federal government had hijacked decades ago.
Jeffrey, on his part, has been specific with his call to Sabahans to vote local and Pakatan “is not local”.
A political marriage between them, even a temporary one, will as such give Sabahans a fair chance at taking control of the state even if BN decides to plant its “agents” to split the votes.
But thus far there has been no indication that straight fights in Sabah’s 60 state and 25 parliamentary seats are likely.
Sabahans, natives included, are not as mindless as the political folks in Putrajaya wish to believe.
The unprecedented revelations spinning out of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the insidious federal agenda to neutralise Christian natives by legalising thousands of illegal Muslim immigrants to ensure Umno-BN stays in power, the “timing” of the Lahad Datu incursions, the consolidation of the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCOM) – which houses 11 parliamentary and 30 state seats – and the Petronas “scam” on local contractors have deeply scarred Sabahans.
Looking ahead, the only road left is for Sabahans to reclaim the right to “rule” their state the way they see fit.
The question now is, will Anwar and Pakatan set aside their personal demands and help Sabahans achieve this “right”?
If he does, what will be the price of this tryst?
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Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim selama menjadi timbalan perdana menteri dahulu tidak pernah kesiankan rakyat Sabah
Sekarang dia buat-buat muka sedih konon dia kesian Sabah tak dapat cukup peruntukan pembangunan,
rharap rakyat tidak mudah termakan janji pembangkang yang menurutnya hanya tahu bercakap dan berjanji serta berpura-pura kesian dengan rakyat, khususnya di Sabah sedangkan yang pasti tidak mampu menunaikan apa yang dijanjikan.
Incumbent Padang Serai MP, N. Gobalakrishnan, who is a Pro-Barisan Nasional (Pro BN) independent MP, said voting for Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would mean voting for disaster.
He said Sabahans must reject Anwar on May 5 as voting for him would negatively affect the future of the nation's development and the younger generations.
This is because, he said, Anwar only knows to make empty promises and hopes that would fool the people and disappoint them later on.
"I have been in the PKR and close to Anwar for the past 12 years and for that, I called him 'King of Promises' because he is very capable of giving empty promises and hopes to the people but not honouring them.
Gobalakrishnan said this in a press conference together with the Pakatan NGO Pro BN president Zulkarnain Mahdar here on Tuesday.
He was among the speakers in the Pakatan NGO Pro BN programme 'Gerak Gempur: Membongkar Pembohongan Anwar Ibrahim dan Bahaya Memilih Pakatan Pembangkang' in Tamparuli, Tuaran and other districts in Sabah.
Also present was a political activist cum former PKR Sabah communication director Ronald Klassen.
"Unlike the Barisan Nasional (BN) that has proved to be a ruling government that serves the people under 1Malaysia concept: People's First, Performance Now regardless of their faiths, race and culture," he said.
Pakatan Rakyat has promised in its manifesto – and in the words of its de facto leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim – to subsidise petrol for all Malaysians, should they win at GE13.
This cannot be done – a fact omitted from their manifesto.
Pakatan maintains that "the windfall from oil revenue should be shared with the people" and that this "windfall" is how they will finance subsidies for petrol (cutting the price by 40 sen per litre). This promise is not grounded in reality.
Malaysia is on the edge of becoming a net oil importer. We import almost as much oil as Petronas sells on world markets. According to the International Energy Agency, Malaysia will cross this line by 2017 latest.
This means that the "windfall" to be "shared with the people" is the profit Petronas receives from selling on world markets and to Malaysians. Pakatan is therefore promising to lower petrol prices using money that will no longer exist if they are able to enact the price cuts.
Worse, Pakatan is also promising to increase the share of royalties Petronas pays petrochemical-producing states (and Kelantan) from 5 per cent to 20 per cent, further reducing the "windfall" available to pay for lower petrol prices.
Another problem is present within the Pakatan proposal itself. To subsidise something is to promote it. If the government subsidises petrol use, the experience in every country across the globe – especially the Arab states, where petrol is kept cheap and plentiful for many reasons – is that its use will increase directly.
Malaysia has proven reserves of 5.8 billion barrels (proven reserves are the total amount of oil in a nation's territory that can be extracted from the ground with today's technology). Daily oil usage is over 550,000 barrels per day, a number that has increased rapidly for years. It is estimated that by the end of this year, Malaysia will consume nearly 600,000 barrels of oil per day.
Petronas is unable to keep up with demand by instantly extracting every drop of oil in the proven reserves, which is why Malaysia is so close to being a net oil importer. Even if Petronas were able to extract all of that oil and turn it to purely Malaysian use, the oil would run out in less than three decades.
Worse, because all of the "windfall" would be from sales to Malaysians, Malaysians would be financing their own petrol subsidies, and so Petronas would take losses from the sale of oil, starving the government of revenue, and starving state governments of any royalties.
This is the truth of the petrol subsidy promise. In order for the petrol subsidy to work, funds cannot come from oil "windfalls" alone. They must come from general funds.
Pakatan will either discard this promise once they form the government, or will starve vital services to pay for it. There is no other option. This promise suggests Pakatan cannot be trusted even on the promises they have made for years.
Benih ketidaksefahaman mula bercambah dalam kalangan pembangkang apabila Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengumumkan di sini baru-baru ini bahawa pakatan pembangkang akan berdepan BN secara sendiri tanpa sokongan parti yang berpusat di Sabah dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Ini tidak diterima baik oleh pemimpin Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP), sebuah parti tempatan yang meninggalkan BN pada 17 Sept, 2008, yang mengharapkan perikatan strategik untuk berdepan kekuatan jentera pilihan raya BN.
Dalam apa yang dilihat sebagai satu tamparan kepada pembangkang, setiausaha agung SAPP Datuk Richard Yong kemudiannya menyifatkan pengumuman Anwar sebagai membayangkan "pakatan pembangkang terlebih yakin".
"Mereka meletakkan diri mereka terlalu tinggi sehinggakan tidak memerlukan kerjasama daripada parti di Sabah untuk berkempen menentang Barisan Nasional. Mereka tidak mengendahkan hasrat rakyat supaya pembangkang menentang BN satu lawan satu dalam pilihan raya akan datang," Yong dipetik sebagai berkata.
"Mereka meletakkan diri mereka terlalu tinggi sehinggakan tidak memerlukan kerjasama daripada parti di Sabah untuk berkempen menentang Barisan Nasional. Mereka tidak mengendahkan hasrat rakyat supaya pembangkang menentang BN satu lawan satu dalam pilihan raya akan datang," Yong dipetik sebagai berkata.
Lebih memburukkan keadaan, Pengerusi Parti Reformasi Negeri Sabah (Star) Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan mengesahkan menyertai persaingan itu, dan menjangkakan partinya terlibat dalam pertandingan tiga penjuru atau lebih bagi sebahagian besar kerusi parlimen dan negeri.
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Situasi terbaru yang berlaku di Sabah ini bukanlah suatu isu yang baru, sebaliknya telah menjadi asam garam dikalangan parti pembangkang negara ini setiap kali menjelang pilihan raya. Strategi Anwar Ibrahim yang gemar menggunakan khidmat "katak" untuk merampas kerajaan akhirnya memakan diri beliau sendiri.
PEMBANGKANG SABAH SUDAH GAGAL.. PILIHANRAYA SEMAKIN HAMPIR, BARU TERFIKIR CARI JALAN UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN KESEPAKATAN.. TOLAK PEMBANKANG!!
Ternyata kehadiran Lajim dan Bumburing tidak sama sekali memberikan kelebihan kepada Pakatan Rakyat, sebaliknya menjadi beban kepada Anwar kerana terpaksa membuat keputusan yang memuaskan hati semua "katak-katak" peliharaannya.
PEMBANGKANG SABAH SUDAH GAGAL.. PILIHANRAYA SEMAKIN HAMPIR, BARU TERFIKIR CARI JALAN UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN KESEPAKATAN.. TOLAK PEMBANKANG!!
Jika Anwar seorang pemimpin yang bijak, beliau sepatutnya sudah menjangkakan masalah yang bakal beliau hadapi, sekaligus merancang strategi untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah tersebut.
PEMBANGKANG SABAH SUDAH GAGAL.. PILIHANRAYA SEMAKIN HAMPIR, BARU TERFIKIR CARI JALAN UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN KESEPAKATAN.. TOLAK PEMBANKANG!!
Sebaliknya Anwar lebih suka ke hulu-ke hilir berkempen memuji diri beliau disamping menyanyikan lagu "Sabah akan hilang". Seolah-olah beliau merasakan kedudukan Pakatan Rakyat TERAMAT selesa dengan kemunculan Lajim dan Bumburing sehingga lupa implikasinya terhadap pembahagian kerusi menjelang PRU13.
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Ketika tarikh pembubaran Parlimen dan tarikh pilihanraya masih menjadi tanda tanya, bukan main lantang lagi pemimpin-pemimpin pembangkang termasuk Anwar Ibrahim mengkritik DS Najib kononnya takut mengadakan pilihanraya. Kegairahan mereka mengkritik mengenai kedua-dua tarikh penting ini menunjukkan seolah-olah mereka telah bersiap sedia menghadapi pilihanraya umum.
PEMBANGKANG SABAH SUDAH GAGAL.. PILIHANRAYA SEMAKIN HAMPIR, BARU TERFIKIR CARI JALAN UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN KESEPAKATAN.. TOLAK PEMBANKANG!!
Namun, agak mengejutkan, ketika jentera-jentera BN telah bersiap sedia, pembangkang di Sabah masih bercakaran mengenai pembahagian kerusi. Malah situasinya semakin parah setelah konflik pembahagian kerusi ini menjadi topik perbualan masyarakat di negeri ini. Tidak takutkah Anwar bahawa kegagalan beliau menyelesaikan isu remeh seperti ini akan turut menjadi pertimbangan rakyat untuk menolak kepimpinan beliau??
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Situasi yang sama turut berlaku di Sarawak semasa Pilihan Raya DUN Sarawak yang menyaksikan kegagalan pembahagian kerusi di antara PKR, DAP dan SNAP. Kegagalan ini telah menyaksikan pertembungan menarik antara PKR dan SNAP dengan BN. Pertembungan menarik ini akhirnya memihak kepada BN sehingga dapat mengekalkan majoriti 2/3 dalam PRN Sarawak itu.
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Apakah pertembungan menarik juga akan berlaku dalam PRU-13 akan datang dengan menyaksikan pertembungan sesama kompenan Pakatan Pembangkang? Ianya tidak mustahil dan jika perbalahan ini semakin parah, pastinya akan berlaku pembubaran Pakatan Pembangkang seperti mana yang sering berlaku sebelum ini. Di sini, BN akan merasai kenikmatannya untuk mencapai kemenangan mudah 2/3 majoriti.
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Bagaimanapun, senario terbaru Pakatan Pembangkang itu tidak berlaku dalam BN yang menekankan semangat muafakat bagi menentukan formula pengagihan kerusi memberi keadilan kepada semua parti komponen.
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Oleh sebab itu, setiap kali pilihan raya, BN tidak mempunyai masalah untuk berhadapan dengan Pakatan Pembangkang khususnya di beberapa kawasan yang telah dipersetujui kompenan BN.
PEMBANGKANG SABAH SUDAH GAGAL.. PILIHANRAYA SEMAKIN HAMPIR, BARU TERFIKIR CARI JALAN UNTUK MEWUJUDKAN KESEPAKATAN.. TOLAK PEMBANKANG!!
Melihat kepada perkembangan pembangkang Sabah ini, Bullet amat bersetuju dengan kenyataan Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal bahawa kegagalan pakatan pembangkang menyelesaikan isu agihan kerusi kali ini membayangkan mereka juga tidak akan mampu menangani isu yang lebih penting membabitkan rakyat, agama, bangsa dan negara.
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Inikah contoh kepimpinan yang kononnya layak untuk mentadbir negara? Jika masalah dalam parti pun gagal diselesaikan, bagaimana pula dengan isu-isu yang lebih besar?
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Ketua Menteri Sabah Datuk Seri Musa Aman, seorang yang berkeyakinan dan dipuji kerana pengurusan kewangan negeri yang mantap dan kecemerlangan Barisan Nasional (BN) Sabah dalam pilihan raya umum 2008, sekali lagi dijangka memimpin parti gabungan itu dalam PRU menentang pakatan pembangkang yang tidak sehaluan di negeri ini.
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Dalam 'ledakan' pertama yang dibuat selepas pembubaran Dewan Rakyat dan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sabah, Musa, yang juga pengerusi BN negeri, menggesa penduduk Sabah tidak memperjudikan masa depan mereka dengan membuat ujikaji dengan sebuah kerajaan pembangkang. "Berfikirlah dengan bijak sebelum membuat keputusan, dan memperjudikan masa depan anak serta negara kita," Musa dipetik sebagai berkata.
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Musa, pemimpin yang berkarisma, mengetuai BN negeri dalam melakar kejayaan besar dalam pilihan raya umum lepas, dengan menguasai 24 daripada 25 kerusi parlimen dan 59 daripada 60 kerusi Dun, meninggalkan DAP kerusi Parlimen Kota Kinabalu dan Dun Sri Tanjung (Tawau).
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Dengan rundingan bagi kemungkinan pertandingan satu lawan satu atau bersemuka antara BN dan pakatan pembangkang yang sepadu di Sabah tidak menampakkan hasil, BN kini berada dalam kedudukan lebih baik untuk memberi pukulan maut berganda terhadap lawannya bagi pilihan raya parlimen dan negeri.
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Benih ketidaksefahaman mula bercambah dalam kalangan pembangkang apabila Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengumumkan di sini baru-baru ini bahawa pakatan pembangkang akan berdepan BN secara sendiri tanpa sokongan parti yang berpusat di Sabah dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Ini tidak diterima baik oleh pemimpin Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP), sebuah parti tempatan yang meninggalkan BN pada 17 Sept, 2008, yang mengharapkan perikatan strategik untuk berdepan kekuatan jentera pilihan raya BN. Dalam apa yang dilihat sebagai satu tamparan kepada pembangkang, setiausaha agung SAPP Datuk Richard Yong kemudiannya menyifatkan pengumuman Anwar sebagai membayangkan "pakatan pembangkang terlebih yakin".
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"Mereka meletakkan diri mereka terlalu tinggi sehinggakan tidak memerlukan kerjasama daripada parti di Sabah untuk berkempen menentang Barisan Nasional. Mereka tidak mengendahkan hasrat rakyat supaya pembangkang menentang BN satu lawan satu dalam pilihan raya akan datang," Yong dipetik sebagai berkata.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Lebih memburukkan keadaan, Pengerusi Parti Reformasi Negeri Sabah (Star) Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan mengesahkan menyertai persaingan itu, dan menjangkakan partinya terlibat dalam pertandingan tiga penjuru atau lebih bagi sebahagian besar kerusi parlimen dan negeri. Tanpa menyebut bahawa ini mungkin memecahkan lagi undi pembangkang dan memberi kelebihan kepada parti pemerintah, Jeffrey berkata "setiap parti politik bebas meletak calon dalam pilihan raya memandangkan ia sejajar dengan prinsip demokrasi yang diamalkan di Malaysia".
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Seorang penganalisis politik, Salman Nurillah, berkata berdasarkan senario politik yang berlaku di negeri ini, dengan perpecahan dan ketidaksepakatan antara parti pembangkang, BN nampaknya mempunyai kelebihan untuk memerintah Sabah bagi tempoh lima tahun lagi.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Salman, seorang bekas penjawat awam berkelulusan ijazah undang-undang dari Universiti Malaya dan ijazah sarjana dari UiTM, berkata dengan SAPP dan STAR menyertai saingan itu dan memberi tumpuan khas terhadap isu agenda Autonomi Borneo, ini sudah tentu memberi lonjakan untuk BN mengulangi kejayaannya pada pilihan raya umum ke-12. "Kelebihan semestinyalah di pihak BN, kerana dalam arena politik, apabila berlaku perpecahan atau ketidaksepakatan dalam kalangan pembangkang, parti pemerintah akan sentiasa meraih manfaatnya," katanya.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Menyebut contoh keputusan pilihan raya umum 2008 bagi kerusi DUN Likas, Kepayan dan Inanam di Sabah, Salman berkata perpecahan undi pembangkang memberi kemenangan kepada BN. "Saya percaya perkara seperti ini akan berlaku lagi dalam pilihan raya akan datang," katanya dan menambah sama ada calon pakatan pembangkang, atau SAPP atau malah STAR akan menjadi pengacau bagi undi pembangkang dalam apa cara sekalipun.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Satu lagi faktor yang memberi kelebihan kepada parti pemerintah ialah keseriusan kerajaan BN mengendalikan isu keselamatan, khususnya pencerobohan pengganas di Lahad Datu.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
"Saya berpendapat ini adalah 'rahmat yang terselindung' dari sudut keselamatan yang sebelum ini diambil mudah. "Dengan keputusan kerajaan meningkatkan jumlah anggota keselamatan untuk melindungi kedaulatan negeri ini, terutamanya di pantai timur di samping pelaksanaan Kawasan Keselamatan Khas Pantai Timur Sabah (ESSCOM), ia membangkitkan keyakinan rakyat, khususnya pengundi, kepada kerajaan.
"Mereka berasa selamat kerana keadaan keselamatan terkawal dan yakin dengan usaha bersepadu kerajaan untuk mengelak insiden serupa daripada berulang," katanya.
PERSAMAAN SEMUA PARTI PEMBANGKANG DI SABAH IALAH, MEREKA MEMILIKI SIFAT TAMAK YANG LUAR BIASA.. MASING2 MAHU BERHADAPAN DENGAN BN DI SEMUA KERUSI
Salman berkata faktor menyenangi pentadbiran kerajaan Sabah yang baik di bawah kepimpinan Musa, lebih-lebih lagi dalam membawa pembangunan dari semua aspek kepada rakyat dan penerimaan dasar transformasi baharu yang dilaksanakan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, yang mengilhamkan gagasan 1Malaysia, akan turut menyumbang kepada kejayaan dalam pilihan raya.
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