by Sebanaku Sarawak
KUCHING: A significant number of Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) members are hoping that the party to pull out from the Barisan Nasional (BN).
The popular assumption is it can help to get back the support of the Chinese community.
The support for the party has been declining for years and there is a strong possibility that the party would lose all of its Chinese-majority seats in the coming state election.
Therefore, the assumption says, in order to hold onto these seats, SUPP has no choice but to pull out from the BN.
However, SUPP is destined to walk the path of oblivion if it is to withdraw from the BN.
The top leaders of all the three component parties of the State BN have made it loud and clear to the SUPP president Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam and other party leaders that the State BN is ‘mentally’ prepared to see all the Chinese-majority seats to fall under the oppositions in the coming state election if SUPP failed to win the support of the Chinese community before the election.
Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam and other party members are wrong to assume that SUPP would certainly able to get the confidence from the Chinese community when the party is no longer with the BN.
They certainly underestimate the Democratic Action Party’s ambition to be the party that represents the Chinese community.
Even if there was a secret pact between SUPP and DAP on their cooperation, it is very difficult to honour the pact simply because power is extremely addictive.
It was because of the fear that Sarawak DAP’s influence would be waning that had caused the top leadership of DAP to have a rocky relationship with Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in the past.
DAP is now at the front seat as the hero of the Chinese community – and certainly it would not give way to SUPP to share the same limelight with the party.
The best option that DAP would give to SUPP is to sit at the back seat and be the follower.
Even if SUPP agree to sit at the back seat, it has to be wary of PKR.
SUPP could not expect the Chinese leaders in PKR such as the Padungan assemblyman Dominique Ng would agree to give the party anything it wants.
It should be stressed that seniority also plays important role in the opposition pact.
With these in the mind of the BN top leaders, SUPP could not expect them to be on their knees to beg the party not to pull out.
And moreover, there are always the possibilities that a handful of pro-BN Chinese leaders, who are not with SUPP, are actually already making their preparation to replace SUPP.
These leaders know what SUPP has failed to acknowledge until now – i.e. R E F O R M ! ! !
The SUPP leaders have been asked to carry out reform in the party since early 2000’s but nothing significant has happened because they are too busy enriching themselves.
These pro-BN Chinese leaders believe that they could get the support of the Chinese community.
As a matter of fact, it would not be a surprise at all if these pro-BN Chinese leaders issue their statement supporting the BN barely one hour after SUPP had announced its decision to pull out from the BN.
Therefore, if SUPP is to show to the Chinese community that it is honest in championing the interest of the Chinese community, the first step to be taken by the party is to ask some senior leaders to go.
If the creed that “a party is more important that any individual in the party” is being held dearly by the party top leaders, then the first to go is the president himself, i.e. Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam.
He has been sitting on the top of the pyramid for too long.
Or the party would become a mosquito party – as mentioned by the Chief Political Secretary to the Chief Minister YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.
However, at the rate things are going now, DAP and PKR are to benefit from any action taken by SUPP.
In the nut shell, both parties are expected to have more elected representatives in the State Legislative Assembly (DUN).
Also read:
* NEWS FLASH - Sim telling the truth
* SUPP and the calls to reform
* Another conspiracy by Karim & co?
KUCHING: A significant number of Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) members are hoping that the party to pull out from the Barisan Nasional (BN).
The popular assumption is it can help to get back the support of the Chinese community.
The support for the party has been declining for years and there is a strong possibility that the party would lose all of its Chinese-majority seats in the coming state election.
Therefore, the assumption says, in order to hold onto these seats, SUPP has no choice but to pull out from the BN.
However, SUPP is destined to walk the path of oblivion if it is to withdraw from the BN.
The top leaders of all the three component parties of the State BN have made it loud and clear to the SUPP president Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam and other party leaders that the State BN is ‘mentally’ prepared to see all the Chinese-majority seats to fall under the oppositions in the coming state election if SUPP failed to win the support of the Chinese community before the election.
Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam and other party members are wrong to assume that SUPP would certainly able to get the confidence from the Chinese community when the party is no longer with the BN.
They certainly underestimate the Democratic Action Party’s ambition to be the party that represents the Chinese community.
Even if there was a secret pact between SUPP and DAP on their cooperation, it is very difficult to honour the pact simply because power is extremely addictive.
It was because of the fear that Sarawak DAP’s influence would be waning that had caused the top leadership of DAP to have a rocky relationship with Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) in the past.
DAP is now at the front seat as the hero of the Chinese community – and certainly it would not give way to SUPP to share the same limelight with the party.
The best option that DAP would give to SUPP is to sit at the back seat and be the follower.
Even if SUPP agree to sit at the back seat, it has to be wary of PKR.
SUPP could not expect the Chinese leaders in PKR such as the Padungan assemblyman Dominique Ng would agree to give the party anything it wants.
It should be stressed that seniority also plays important role in the opposition pact.
With these in the mind of the BN top leaders, SUPP could not expect them to be on their knees to beg the party not to pull out.
And moreover, there are always the possibilities that a handful of pro-BN Chinese leaders, who are not with SUPP, are actually already making their preparation to replace SUPP.
These leaders know what SUPP has failed to acknowledge until now – i.e. R E F O R M ! ! !
The SUPP leaders have been asked to carry out reform in the party since early 2000’s but nothing significant has happened because they are too busy enriching themselves.
These pro-BN Chinese leaders believe that they could get the support of the Chinese community.
As a matter of fact, it would not be a surprise at all if these pro-BN Chinese leaders issue their statement supporting the BN barely one hour after SUPP had announced its decision to pull out from the BN.
Therefore, if SUPP is to show to the Chinese community that it is honest in championing the interest of the Chinese community, the first step to be taken by the party is to ask some senior leaders to go.
If the creed that “a party is more important that any individual in the party” is being held dearly by the party top leaders, then the first to go is the president himself, i.e. Datuk Patinggi Dr. George Chan Hong Nam.
He has been sitting on the top of the pyramid for too long.
Or the party would become a mosquito party – as mentioned by the Chief Political Secretary to the Chief Minister YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah.
However, at the rate things are going now, DAP and PKR are to benefit from any action taken by SUPP.
In the nut shell, both parties are expected to have more elected representatives in the State Legislative Assembly (DUN).
Also read:
* NEWS FLASH - Sim telling the truth
* SUPP and the calls to reform
* Another conspiracy by Karim & co?
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