Emergency! Emergency! There aren’t enough froggy ADUNS in Selangor! Emergency! Emergency!
The People's Parliament
Be not in any doubt that on the night of 8th March, last year, as the fall of the mighty BN began to unfold as the election results were announced, the move by UMNO to re-take Selangor from DAP, PAS and PKR and thwart the will of the voters, had already begun.
Remember the revelation much later, after the Pakatan Selangor state government had been sworn in, of Khir Toyo and Hassan Ali’ s clandestine meetings in the days immediately after the elections, with a view to negotiating a PAS-UMNO/BN coalition government in Selangor?
If Hassan had been able to swing enough crossovers then, he would be MB of Selangor today.
He couldn’t then, and he still can’t now.
Not that they haven’t tried.
As Selangor State Assembly YB Teng has pointed out, getting 9 Pakatan ADUNs in Selangor to crossover is not as simple as getting the two donkeys and the other Hee-whore in Perak to sell out.
It would cost far, far more and besides, Pakatan, possibly learning a lesson or two in Perak, have been more guarded in Selangor.
Several forces in UMNO are still determined to take Selangor back.
On 9th August, this year, Malaysiakini reported Najib as saying that he wanted Selangor, which he described as the heartbeat of the nation, back in BN’s grip, calling on all the component parties within the coalition to bring about the necessary changes, to win back the state, implying taking back the state in an election.
Yet anyone with any credible source of information from within the BN coalition will tell you that the major component parties are all, without exception, in total disarray.
Gerakan has lost all credibility, MCA is split and MIC has become incresingly irrelevant to the Indian community.
Some speculate that Najib’s intelligentsia had hoped that the release of the Hindraf 5 from Kamunting might, amongst other things, spell the end of Aiyo Aiyo Samy’s allready tottering political career.
Can Najib still confidently count on UMNO’s ‘fixed deposits’ in East Malaysia?
