Summary - an all too very brief one - by the ever-considerate me, specially dedicated for make benefit those who happen to have the naive notion that politics is boring. Because in actual fact - real-life politics -- Malaysian politics -- is more interesting and engaging than fiction.
SUMMARY:
BN component party from Sabah, with a grand total of 2 (two) parliamentary seats - its president - who we note is not a Member of Parliament himself - proposes a vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister.
This said party president is one of a long line of Sabah Chief Ministers, as seen in the Sabah National State Museum... And that exhibit has so many faces displayed, you wonder how long each actually warmed the seat.
For those who came in late, there used to be a system of 'rotation' for Chief Ministers, but the rules of the game were changed once 'service' (as in badminton) was passed to a certain party. This game sounds like CalvinBall.. from the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, where you can change the rules when you hold the ball.
So, what's wrong with the below article?
Highlighted point 1: "It is disrespectful to the Prime Minister". Wow, that is like, the, Revelation of the Century. People are now proposing a vote of no confidence against the PM. So how else would it be?
"...denied speculation that... pulling out of the Barisan".
He is right on this account. They are not pulling out of the Barisan, they will be kicked out of the Barisan.
But wait... Maybe despite BN's show of indignation, they might not kick out this party for fear of losing these 2 (two) seats.
...in which case, this opens the chance that this party might voluntarily quit Barisan. If this were to happen, it would be embarassing, people leaving before you can fire them.
But how much more embarassing than things already are ... who knows?
KOTA KINABALU: SAPP deputy president Datuk Raymond Tan said he was
confused and embarrassed about the party's move to move a motion of
no-confidence against the Prime Minister.
He said that the
party's supreme council had not been consulted on the matter, accusing
SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee of acting arbitrarily.
Saying
he would attend the party supreme council meeting scheduled tomorrow,
he however questioned the party's rationale of having made the decision
first.
"It is not proper for us to do it when (Datuk Seri)
Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi) is the Barisan chairman. It is disrespectful to
the Prime Minister," said Tan, who is Sabah Deputy Chief Minister and
Infrastructure Minister.
On the meeting, Tan said: "If it (the
no-confidence motion) was already pre-planned and decided, what are we
going to discuss? The damage is done."
He said the move was embarrasing as the SAPP won its seats on a Barisan ticket.
Tan said he was not making any stand on the issue at the moment before attending the meeting.
He
said SAPP had been very vocal and even blunt on Sabah issues and the
Federal Government had been responding to various requests.
Tan had on Monday denied speculation that the SAPP would be pulling out of the Barisan.
In all, what I can say is we have to wait and see how things will
unfold in the next 2 weeks - 3 months period. I can't say that
everything that is happening now or is looking to happen is definitely
going to be something good... but as it is - this country seems to be
losing its competitiveness and will continue to be so if inefficiency
and wastage continue to go unchecked.
A lot of problems stem from non-accountability, non-transparency
leading to blatant high-handed abuse of privileges by the
well-connected, all the time riding on championing the cause of the
less economically well-off ... but in the end, benefits all accrue to
those who don't need to be helped by such benefits, while never
reaching those who really need the said benefits.
Our current Prime Minister... one can say that he inherited all the deeply entrenched, in fact, now institutionalized
problems that was introduced by his predecessor.. but when one thinks
of this scenario: Had the so-called 'political tsunami' not occured,
would he have shook things up to change things for the better ...? Or would he just continue the same practices as his predecessor, since his own flock of people have 'not yet reaped the benefits' as the one before him had?
However, thinking from another angle, lucky that it is him who became
the PM (as opposed to someone else). If not, if it is someone else with
an iron fist... political blogs might be forcefully shut down in more severe ways than just the current lawsuits.
The deplorable thing about wastage is that after 50 years of independence and enjoying abundant natural resources, the necessary measures to ensure that continuedand sustainable benefits are enjoyed by many generations to come were not taken... and now the chance seems to get slimmer by the day. As you know, as in any resource-management build base game like WarCraft... there are only limited gold mines on the map with limited gold amount inside each... as the game drags on, all players will eventually not be able to build any more units... thus the game cannot go on indefinitely...
Perhaps this is the Dutch Disease ... when got so many other things good to import... but we want to import this one. pffft...
Look at this for what should have, could have, happened, especially in resource-rich, low population Sabah and Sarawak ... or even the whole Malaysia, for that matter... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Economy
After the rise in petrol prices and inflation, finally something went down... the stock market.
Cited as 'due to political uncertainty' in The Star newspaper... In view of this 'cost' priced into today's market I hope that this political shake-up will change things for the better in the long term. Somehow...
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