Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email After weeks of vague answers, yesterday the acting president, Koh Tsu Koon said that there were 3 options for Gerakan:
1. Quit BN and join the opposition (this would have made everyone’s hair stand!)
2. Quit BN and remain independent (oh..where’s the joy in that? unless you enjoy flirting and milking the most out of the situation)
3. Remain in BN (what an anti-climax!)
No guesses which one was chosen. Even though Koh said:
“We are not ruling out any possibility at this moment. We have to assess the situation, but we are not closing any doors.
“Neither are we saying we will definitely leave. It’s something we need to assess but we cannot do it based on sentiments alone,” he told reporters after launching the KL-Federal Territory (FT) state delegates conference here on Sunday.
Dr Koh said the party was examining how the political scenario in the country would continue to change, and had been getting feedback from the grassroots.
“If you go on sentiments alone, I would say more than 60% (want us to leave), but we are taking a lot of factors into consideration, and a decision cannot be based just on sentiments.
“It’s a very trying time, and there is need for a lot of rational, objective analysis. It cannot be a straightforward simplistic decision,” he said.
Its unlikely that Gerakan will pull out, unless of course another incident like the Ahmad Ismail case is engineered by interested parties to get Gerakan out of BN, and maybe join Pakatan Rakyat.
60% ??? In our country, that’s called the majority.
though members push their GR/MCA leadership to quit BN it will be tough call for the leaders . The main reason i see is ‘maruah’ . Bcos joing PR means it has to share decision making with long time rival , DAP , which already established in PR . Tough call …… BUT it will be viable when the people (chinese in particular) continue to reject GR/MCA in GEs .