DAP can’t stand up to PAS on council polls pledge, says Ti

Monday December 28, 2009
DAP can’t stand up to PAS on council polls pledge, says Ti
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PETALING JAYA: The DAP’s failure to deliver its promise of bringing back local council elections shows that the party does not have the political muscle to deal with PAS, which is not in favour of the agenda.

MCA central committee member Datuk Ti Lian Ker, taking a swipe at Pakatan Rakyat parties in his blog, said the DAP’s failure to fulfil its election promise had been expected and described it as a PAS “victory” over DAP.

“The DAP cannot and will not stand up to PAS since DAP needs PAS much more than PAS needs them,” he said in his blog posting at tilianker.blogspot.com yesterday.

Ti added that PAS had slowly and conscientiously asserted its political will over DAP.

“PAS’ political psyche as the ‘big brother’ is latent and potent, lurking to burst out in the open,” he said.

He added that it was now finally revealed that DAP and PKR were merely posturing to please civil activists to gain popularity and win votes.

He said the DAP was not as combative as it claimed to be and had “kow-towed” to PAS in a miserable manner.

“At least the MCA does not make promises it cannot keep. The MCA has played its role as a moderating force against extremism and radicalism,” Ti said.

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng recently said Pakatan parties were not against the idea of local council elections but had reached “an understanding” that the measure advocated now was to build up transparent local authorities to serve the people well.

Lim said the decision to scrap the idea of local council elections saw strong views from all parties concerned but the issue was ironed out by way of a consensus.

Pakatan, in its 2008 election manifesto to the people, promised to hold local council elections if it came into power.

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