Its sickening.Once again the will of the people has been frustrated by the B.N govt which has used their power and money to lure the numbers to take over the Perak Govt.
It does not take a genius to know where the Pakatan Rakyat weakness was centred.The Behrang Assemblyman,Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi and the Changkat Jering assemblyman, Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu were involved in a corruption case which was scheduled for hearing on the 10th of february.
What was offered to them is a matter of conjecture but their disappearance during the first few days of the Chinese new Year holidays indicated some kind of deal was struck and the two PKR member was going to hop over to B.N in order to save their skin in the corruption case.With the deal now struck, it would be interesting to see how the corruption case will proceed.Most likely the powers behind the B.N govt will arrange some kind of trial which will eventually exonerate them of any guilt.
The only way for Perak to have a govt of the people and for the people is to have a snap election which will finally decide which party should have the mandate to form the govt.This can only happen if the Perak Sultan play a pivotal role by being non partisan in his decision to call for a snap election.
For a democracy to survive and flourish the sultan must pay heed to the wishes of its people. The march 8th Election of 2008 which swept Pakatan Rakyat to power was no accident. It was the wish of the people who were bent on seeing a change and if B.N was allowed to frustrate the will of the people then that change will not happen because the powers behind the govt which used their influence of power and money have deemed it fit to cast aside the aspiration of the people.This is a testing time for our democracy and the Perak sultan's decision will no doubt indicate which direction our fledgeling democracy will be heading.
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