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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Khairy: Pakatan reveals cracks again


The contradictory stands on holding simultaneous elections, says the Umno Youth chief, highlights the disunity in the opposition bloc.
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat has again revealed the cracks within the opposition bloc which will prove to be disastrous should it form federal government, said Khairy Jamaluddin.
To substantiate his argument, the Umno Youth chief pointed to the contradictory stands by Pakatan state governments on holding simultaneous polls if the general election is called in November as speculated.
While the PAS-governed Kelantan has no problems adhering to the date set by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim however said the PKR-led Selangor will not do so.
Anwar is adamant that Selangor will not go to the polls until the electoral roll is cleaned up.
However, Khairy questioned the logic of the electoral roll being good enough for PAS in Kelantan but not for PKR in Selangor.
“This once again shows that they are far from united. This is basic stuff and yet there is no agreement. This will be disastrous in government,” he told FMT.
The BN Youth chairman also took Pakatan to task for throwing brickbats at Najib for creating uncertainty over the election date, when the opposition bloc is doing the same.
“They are not exactly making things better, are they?” he stressed.
“It is very hypocritical of them [to announce this], especially after all their criticism regarding the PM delaying the polls,” he said.
Pakatan not confident
Khairy also said Anwar’s stand suggested that Pakatan is not confident of retaining Selangor in the next election.
“Perhaps they want more time or they want to use the general election’s results as a factor for campaigning.
“So if they lose in the general election, they will ask the voters in Selangor to give them another chance since we still have a BN government at the federal level,” he added.
Apart from this, Khairy said there is no point in digging into the public coffers to hold separate polls since the difference in dates will just be a matter of months.
“Why waste the rakyat’s money just to delay the elections for a few months?” he asked.
The federal government’s term will expire in April 2013 but Najib has come under fire for placing the nation on election alert for months, prompting certain quarters to call for a fixed election date.
Meanwhile, several Selangor excos dismissed a rumour that Anwar did not consult the menteri besar before making the statement thus catching the state leadership by surprise.
The coming general election is being touted as the toughest in the nation’s history, with the opposition claiming that it has a clear shot at unseating BN, which has been in power for more than five decades.
However, pundits claim that with the BN votebanks of Sabah and Sarawak, such a feat will be nothing short of impossible.

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