In his article, DAP facing its worst crisis since GE14, Liew Chin Tong unconvincingly says:
The fact is that the Harapan government is a coalition government. No party has absolute power. Most things have still got to go back to the cabinet and the Pakatan Harapan presidential council for endorsement and that is how it should be.
He is right that the Harapan government is a coalition government but it does seem like Dr M wields quite a lot (if not absolute) power. And it doesn't seem like a lot of things go back to the cabinet or the Pakatan Harapan council for endorsement (though he is right in saying that's how it should be).
In his article, Wrong for Dr M to use 'racist' label, but Dong Zong not in the right either, Lim Kit Siang says:
In actual fact, however, the khat subject controversy was a legacy of the former government, as the final decision on the new textbooks for Chinese/Tamil primary schools to introduce the khat subject for Standard Four pupils in 2020 was made by the Education Ministry Curriculum Committee chaired by the then education minister and the then two deputy education ministers in a meeting on Sept. 30, 2015.
Well, it's now 2019 and Pakatan Harapan is the government, not BN. Why can't PH change that decision? The answer of course is that it can.
It seems every attempt by DAP leaders to spin the criticism it has been receiving from the non-Malay community has only made the situation worse.
So what should they do? They need to grow a spine and state their true stance on the matter, instead of trying to justify what Dr M has been doing lately, which is making unilateral decisions that are contrary to what the majority of Pakatan supporter want and expect.
If they don't start to do that soon, they will suffer the fate of MCA, which lost the confidence of the Chinese community.
The fact is that the Harapan government is a coalition government. No party has absolute power. Most things have still got to go back to the cabinet and the Pakatan Harapan presidential council for endorsement and that is how it should be.
He is right that the Harapan government is a coalition government but it does seem like Dr M wields quite a lot (if not absolute) power. And it doesn't seem like a lot of things go back to the cabinet or the Pakatan Harapan council for endorsement (though he is right in saying that's how it should be).
In his article, Wrong for Dr M to use 'racist' label, but Dong Zong not in the right either, Lim Kit Siang says:
In actual fact, however, the khat subject controversy was a legacy of the former government, as the final decision on the new textbooks for Chinese/Tamil primary schools to introduce the khat subject for Standard Four pupils in 2020 was made by the Education Ministry Curriculum Committee chaired by the then education minister and the then two deputy education ministers in a meeting on Sept. 30, 2015.
Well, it's now 2019 and Pakatan Harapan is the government, not BN. Why can't PH change that decision? The answer of course is that it can.
It seems every attempt by DAP leaders to spin the criticism it has been receiving from the non-Malay community has only made the situation worse.
So what should they do? They need to grow a spine and state their true stance on the matter, instead of trying to justify what Dr M has been doing lately, which is making unilateral decisions that are contrary to what the majority of Pakatan supporter want and expect.
If they don't start to do that soon, they will suffer the fate of MCA, which lost the confidence of the Chinese community.
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