{"id":2383,"date":"2008-09-29T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T02:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/09\/29\/gerakan-thought-of-leaving-bn\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T02:31:48","slug":"gerakan-thought-of-leaving-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/29\/gerakan-thought-of-leaving-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerakan thought of leaving BN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of vague answers, yesterday the acting president, Koh Tsu Koon said that there were <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/9\/28\/nation\/20080928173217&amp;sec=nation\">3 options<\/a> for Gerakan:<\/p>\n<p>1. Quit BN and join the opposition (this would have made everyone&#8217;s hair stand!)<br \/>\n2. Quit BN and remain independent (oh..where&#8217;s the joy in that? unless you enjoy flirting and milking the most out of the situation)<br \/>\n3. Remain in BN (what an anti-climax!)<\/p>\n<p>No guesses which one was chosen. Even though Koh said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are not ruling out any possibility at this moment. We have to assess the situation, but we are not closing any doors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither are we saying we will definitely leave. It\u2019s something we need to assess but we cannot do it based on sentiments alone,\u201d he told reporters after launching the KL-Federal Territory (FT) state delegates conference here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very trying time, and there is need for a lot of rational, objective analysis. It cannot be a straightforward simplistic decision,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>60% ??? In our country, that&#8217;s called the majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s hair stand!) 2. Quit BN and remain independent (oh..where&#8217;s the joy in that? unless you enjoy flirting and milking the most out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131,70],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn","tag-gerakan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}