Pakatan pretending unaware why can’t use single logo?

I was amused by the comments of “Interview” section last Sunday that Pakatan has been trying to register itself as a political party. Datuk Seri Wan Azizah insinuated that the Registrar of Societies refused to register Pakatan’s application.

Talk of Pakatan registering as a coalition of parties like the Barisan Nasional started after the 2008 general election. At the time, I remember reading in the newspaper that the law required an association to have at least seven members.

Any self-respecting political leader knows about Article 2 of the Societies Act 1966 that requires a political party to have at least seven members. This means Pakatan has to have seven parties as founding members. As the founding President of PKR, Azizah must have known about this legal provision. Are the hundreds of PKR and DAP lwayers so busy that none of them has reminded Wan Azizah of this basic law?

There are 31 registered parties in Malaysia. BN is a party with 13 component members. Other than Pakatan (PAS, DAP and PKR), there are still 14 other parties. If Pakatan is sincere in its intention to register, can Pakatan not woo another four of these 13 political parties to join Pakatan so that Pakatan can be registered?

What the people have witnesses, is Pakatan driving away other opposition forces so that PR can remain the sole opposition flag bearer.

Most people have left PKR than join it. It is simple arithmetic that if all the people who voted BN in 2008 vote BN again in the next general elections, then Pakatan cannot win. Pakatan to win, must attract BN people and face sitters.

Parties like Sabah’s SAPP, Setia, Bersekutu, Sarawak’s State Reform Party, KL Based like Berjasa, Kimma, Workers Party, Indian Progressive Front, KITA and others could have been roped in to achieve the minimum seven component parties.

SAPP is still the only party to have left BN to join forces with the opposition but Pakatan has returned the favor by giving them the cold shoulder.

The Sarawak state election last month showed that Pakatan is still not able to organize the political forces in the country to come together.

SNAP was betrayed and insulted. MPs from PKR has left to form the Parti Socialists Malaysia and KITA.

Granted that leaders like Wan Azizah have good intentions, I now doubt if they know how to run political parties and to run our country.

Political Observer