Pakatan Rakyat: A SWOT Analysis

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
  1. Consists of three non-racial parties which are representative of the following ideologies:

    1. Social democrats who believe in fighting for an equal and secular “Malaysian Malaysia”.

    2. Islamists who believe in fighting for a welfare state, which will eventually be an Islamic state.

    3. A right-of-centre party set up to fight for justice and fairness for the people, starting with their own founder.

  2. It will be a coalition of equal partners.

  3. 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).

  4. 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.
  1. See item 1 in the Strengths column.

  2. See item 2 in the Strengths column.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.
Opportunities Threats
  1. Has indicated that they would call for fresh elections within a year of gaining power, to seek a proper mandate from the people.

  2. Has pledged to free all ISA detainees upon takeover.

  3. Has indicated that they will repeal certain Acts, such as the PPPA, the UUCA, and certainly the ISA.

  4. 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.

  5. Has pledged to reform the judiciary.

  6. Has indicated that the 3rd vote may soon be available again (that’s local councils and municipalities, by the way).

  7. May allow greater freedom of expression, the right to assembly, peaceful marches and gatherings.
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. The New Economic Agenda which would eradicate poverty for all races may end up exactly like the New Economic Policy.

  5. May find that delivering on their promises may not be that easy.

  6. May end up having to deal with endless assemblies, marches and gatherings started by the deposed government parties.

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.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008, by gier and is filed under "Mentera Moden ". You can leave a response here, or send a Trackback from your own site.

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    nat

    Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 at 15:02

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    Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 11:13

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    Eugene

    Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 14:37

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