September 24th, 2008 gier Posted in Mentera Moden | 3 Comments »
Are you unsure whether you should be a supporter of Pakatan Rakyat? Well, we can help you by providing a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the opposition coalition as they attempt to take over the government which you had (apparently inadvertently) voted for in the last elections.
A SWOT analysis is a tool used by consultants to draw tables in their reports for their clients, or when they decide that a report does not have enough bullet points. Additionally, it is also a tool for the consultants to indicate to their clients that they, the clients, should pay the consultants a lot of money. So, a SWOT for Pakatan Rakyat would look like this:
| Strengths |
Weaknesses |
- Consists of three non-racial parties which are representative of the following ideologies:
- Social democrats who believe in fighting for an equal and secular “Malaysian Malaysia”.
- Islamists who believe in fighting for a welfare state, which will eventually be an Islamic state.
- A right-of-centre party set up to fight for justice and fairness for the people, starting with their own founder.
- It will be a coalition of equal partners.
- Has dynamic leader, hell-bent on toppling the current government because of the government’s ineptitude, corruption, nepotism, cronyism and several other -isms (and scams involving land).
- Has a collection of professionals, civil society members, clerics and former members of the ruling coalition to ensure a transition would not be too onerous.
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- See item 1 in the Strengths column.
- See item 2 in the Strengths column.
- Has dynamic leader, hell-bent on toppling a democratically elected government by enticing the government’s MPs to crossover into his coalition, effectively forcing a regime change without going to the polls.
- Has a collection of street demonstrators, agitprop practitioners, hard-line fundamentalists and former bitter members of the ruling coalition to ensure that a transition would be a circus.
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| Opportunities |
Threats |
- Has indicated that they would call for fresh elections within a year of gaining power, to seek a proper mandate from the people.
- Has pledged to free all ISA detainees upon takeover.
- Has indicated that they will repeal certain Acts, such as the PPPA, the UUCA, and certainly the ISA.
- Has pledged that the New Economic Policy and its successors will be replaced with a New Economic Agenda, which would eradicate poverty for all races as one of its main thrusts.
- Has pledged to reform the judiciary.
- Has indicated that the 3rd vote may soon be available again (that’s local councils and municipalities, by the way).
- May allow greater freedom of expression, the right to assembly, peaceful marches and gatherings.
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- May not call for fresh elections within a year, and may instead wait until 5 years later, to shore up power and influence so that they can ensure themselves of gaining the mandate from the people – and the opportunity to gerrymander.
- May appoint up to 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, one each from the Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan and Other communities, resulting in a continuation of the aforementioned circus.
- May be conducting a myopic hunt for abuses of power, corruption and other nasty things (allegedly) committed by the outgoing government that they might forget to actually govern.
- The New Economic Agenda which would eradicate poverty for all races may end up exactly like the New Economic Policy.
- May find that delivering on their promises may not be that easy.
- May end up having to deal with endless assemblies, marches and gatherings started by the deposed government parties.
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So, there you have it, a brief SWOT analysis of a potential Pakatan Rakyat government. We hope that it has helped in your decision making process.
September 24th, 2008 at 15:02
lol!
September 28th, 2008 at 11:13
dacing senget!!
October 23rd, 2008 at 14:37
I am seaching for some idea to write in my blog… somehow come to your blog. best of luck. Eugene