Sebelum kepimpinan PR mengumumkan mereka sebulat suara meletakkan calon dari Pas untuk bertanding di Merlimau, ada ura-ura yang kata Pas tidak mahu bertanding.
Kononnya beberapa pimpinan tertinggi Pas sedang kuat melobi pihak atasan untuk tidak lawan di sana. Kalau lawan pun buat habis beras saja dan keputusannya sudah dapat dijangka.
Baca laporan Malaysia Insider kat bawah:
February 07, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Merlimau by-election may see the incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) winning the seat unchallenged if PAS decides to stay away from the poll.
The Malaysian Insider understands that a significant number of senior leaders in the Islamist party have been lobbying the top leadership not to field a candidate in the BN stronghold.
“We have to choose our battles. We can’t just contest when a vacancy arises. It is very costly and this is the time for us to focus on the general election,” said a member of the PAS political bureau who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Out of the 14 by-elections held since 2008, PAS has contested in seven of them and won four.
The last time PAS refused to contest in a by-election was in January 2007 when Pahang’s Batu Talam seat fell vacant. The party then cited electoral irregularities for boycotting the by-election.
“Except for some who have been eager to set up an operations centre in Merlimau, many of us in the national leadership are not in favour of contesting,” said the source.
The PAS central committee member said the only obstacle to the plan is the Malacca state leadership as well as leaders of the party’s Jasin division.
The issue is expected to be debated at tonight’s meeting of the political bureau.
It is understood that PAS vice-president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, who has been appointed the Merlimau by-election director, is likely to back the proposal to stand down as he has previously spoken out against by-elections.
The influential ulama had said during the Hulu Selangor campaign last year that by-elections cause government resources to be redistributed, affecting development plans.
Tuan Ibrahim had also accused all political parties of violating election laws by over-spending during the campaigning period.
Meanwhile, another PAS insider said the party would first have to decide not to contest before convincing its Pakatan Rakyat (PR) partners to do the same.
“The problem is PKR and the Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Akin are interested. There will be more damage internally if we let PKR contest,” he said, citing the Election 2008 seat negotiation agreement when Shamsul abandoned the Jasin parliamentary seat after he was given clearance by the Terengganu PAS leadership to contest in Dungun.
The Jasin parliamentary constituency is a stronghold of BN, where it won all the five state seats including Merlimau in Election 2008.
PKR through Shamsul had demanded for the Jasin seat, which had been traditionally contested by PAS prior to Election 2008.
The Merlimau state seat fell vacant after BN’s Datuk Mohamad Hidhir Abu Hasan, 54, died on January 20.
In the 1999 general election, BN won with a majority of 2,252 votes, in 2004 it was 5,087 votes and 2008 with 2,154 votes.
Mohamad Hidhir, who was also a state executive councillor, defeated PAS’s Jasme Tompang in the March 2008 general election.
Tapi ternyata PR memang serius dan berkeyakinan tinggi untuk terus berjuang. Bertanding di mana ada kerusi kosong samada menang atau kalah adalah untuk memastikan kehadiran momentum semangat juang PR dan tanam keyakinan pada rakyat bahawa PR tetap ada sehingga PRU-13 nanti. Baca kat sini.
Mulanya saya baca laporan Pas tak mau bertanding saya terfikir-fikir kenapa ada pimpinan Pas yang nak buat begitu. Puas berfikir saya teringat satu prinsip "Shun Zhu Art of War". Aaaa! Pas mahu guna prinsip tersebut rupanya.
Siapa yang berpolitik dan tidak tahu berkenaan buku hebat tersebut memang lekeh habis. Buku itu di tulis lebih 200 tahun sebelum masehi di negeri China. Sampai sekarang orang guna pakai dan di terjemahkan di semua bahasa dunia.
Apa yang Shun Zhu kata adalah, "kenali diri anda, kenali musuh anda, dalam seratus pertempuran satupun anda tidak akan kalah". Untuk itu ada 7 prinsip yang perlu diperhatikan dan salah satunya adalah;
"jika lawan anda terlalu kuat untuk ditewaskan, jangan bodoh pi serbu lawan jugak, sebaliknya eloklah berkawan dengannya sehingga ke satu masa tertentu dia lemah, baru terkam"
Mungkin itu yang nak dipakai oleh beberapa pimpinan Pas, lalu mereka cadang takmmau lawan. Maknannya nak kawan lah kot. Dalam hal yang masih heboh sedikit sebanyak dalam Pas mengenai Pakatan Perpaduan, tak tahulah saya siapa yang rasa dia tak kuat lalu nak berkawan. Adakah Pas yang rasa tak kuat atau Umno yang rasa tak kuat.
Walau apapun, Umno sentiasa mengaplikasikan prinsip Shun Zhu Art of War dalam peperangan politiknya, tak tahulah pulak Pas ada selak helaian tulisan buku tersebut. Tentu ada yang akan kata pada saya, oooi mamat, Pas kaji Sirah Nabi la, tak payah nak kaji benda lain....wallhu'alam.
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