Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Government vs Pakatan Rakyat

Pakatan Rakyat is adopting the 2008 general election build-up strategy once more to win voters' support for the next coming General Election. Clever! The last GE saw them winning over 80 parliamentary seats and formed four State Governments and retaining Kelantan.
This time around they want to occupy Putrajaya. By their own calculation, Pakatan Rakyat sees itself winning the 14th GE with a simple majority. They see them capturing most of the urban seats,including Chinese majority areas, PAS and PKR retaining most of them, if not all it's current seats.
And to "seal the victory", every attempt must be done to discredit the present Government and its leaders in all aspects. It does not matter if their accusations were wrong, they quickly move on. To them, the public is equally fed-up with the current Government and not bothered with the facts. The public blind support, as seen in most comments on blogs and forums, drive PR leaders to continue raining allegations on the Government.
Hence, we see PR leaders alleging Prime Minister and wife visit to Astana in Krgystan (?) to attend their daughter's wedding on the pretext of an official visit when they knew fully well that a Malay girl's wedding must alway be held at her parents' turf. Despite repeated calls for PR to apologize, they remained deadly silence. Now, another PR leader leader questioned whether the cost of hosting the prime minister's daughter engagement last Friday was paid using taxpayers' money.
The continued bombardment of allegations against the Government is a continued attempt to proof how corrupt and inefficient the BN leaders were. On the other hand, the Government leaders reacted slowly to deny the allegations, most of time after the allegations have set in or overtaken by other events. By then, the replies failed to make any significant impact.
We have come across situation where the Government's PR drives failed miserably because of insufficient information. PR leaders and it's machineries were quick to drive doubts on their viabilities. The Government, despite having all the funds to come up with excellent PR
campaigns, does not seem to come up with the right strategies. Sadly, most of the time the task is left to Prime Minister to spearhead. Whether this is by design or not, Prime Minister must review this and find a more effective strategy. Pakatan Rakyat will also not be taking any nap.

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