The first of the fixed deposits in East Malaysia to go was Sabah. Enough BN state reps jumped ship to make it possible for Pakatan to control the state. It took a bit longer for BN reps in Sarawak to bail from the sinking ship that is BN but jump they did... and en masse.
The entire Sarawak BN has collapsed as PBB, SUPP, PRS and PDP have left BN to form a new alliance with a catchy acronym called "Gabungan Parti Sarawak" (GPS).
That doesn't mean GPS will join Pakatan (the Pakatan parties there oppose the GPS parties) but it does mean they are definitely out of BN. Most likely what will happen is GPS will try to forge a friendly relationship with Pakatan at the Federal level. In other words they have woken up to the new reality.
This development will have repercussions beyond Sarawak shores. In the coming weeks and months, we will probably see more defections in neighboring Sabah, for example. Why? Because nobody wants to be left on a sinking ship. Perhaps reality had not sunk in yet with some in Sabah BN but now there is no doubt which side they should be on.
The trickle effect will reach the Peninsula too. We already saw some movements in Perak which allowed Pakatan to control that state. What we will likely see happening in the near future is more and more state reps and MPs looking to switch camps simply because they don't want to be on the losing side.
As the old song goes, "Nobody knows you when you're down and out".
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