DAP in state of panic and chaos
Kit Siang was told that the PKR logo cannot sell and many Chinese are rejecting it. In fact, they are anticipating a low Chinese voter turnout due to this problem unless they can hard-sell to the Chinese that voting for PKR is the same as voting for DAP.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The recent DAP CEC meeting almost erupted into a free-for-all when a number of CEC members raised their voices at Lim Kit Siang. The brouhaha was about Kit Siang’s decision to discard DAP’s rocket logo in this general election or GE14 and instead use PKR’s mata lebam logo as the so-called ‘common logo’ for all parties.
The shouting match was triggered when the unhappy CEC members told Kit Siang he should have listened to Chen Man Hin instead of listening to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Man Hin, who is one of the founders of the party, was one of the first to speak out against the decision to drop DAP’s rocket logo and replace it with the PKR mata lebam logo.
Kit Siang now has to criss-cross Malaysia to hard-sell to the Chinese that a vote for PKR is a vote for DAP, like how they told the Chinese in 2008 that a vote for PAS is a vote for DAP
Kit Siang was told that the PKR logo cannot sell and many Chinese are rejecting it. In fact, they are anticipating a low Chinese voter turnout due to this problem unless they can hard-sell to the Chinese that voting for PKR is the same as voting for DAP.
It is now no longer about vote PKR for a better government but vote PKR to help save DAP
The CEC asked Kit Siang to address this problem and to come out with some form of solution or else DAP is going to receive a beating on Wednesday next week. Instructions have gone down to the ground that over these next few days till polling day the party machinery must be mobilised to convince the Chinese that a vote for PKR is the same as a vote for DAP.
DAP is getting very desperate as there are less than five days to go till polling day and the normal period for ‘brand familiarisation’ is months if not years. Barisan Nasional spent a whole year ‘selling’ the new dacing logo to voters who had become very familiar with the kapal layar branding since before Merdeka.
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To replace a kapal layar logo that had been around for 20 years with a dacing logo was not easy and it took one whole year while DAP is trying to do it in just five days. This was what the CEC was most worried about, time, and time is clearly not on their side. Kit Siang did not disagree and conceded that it was an error in judgement and strategy but at this late stage in the game correcting the problem is more crucial than playing the blame-game.
And this is what DAP is going to focus on over the next five days till polling day.
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