KOTA BHARU: Kelantan menteri besar Datuk Hj Nik Aziz Nik Mat said, if given the opportunity, Pakatan Rakyat could still launch its plan to topple the existing federal government.
However, he said Pakatan leaders must work together to face their enemies outside the pact in order to bring about political stability.
"I personally don't like the phrase 'toppling the government.' I prefer to call it 'taking over the government."
He said during an exclusive interview with Sin Chew Daily in conjunction with the first anniversary of the 8 March political tsunami that he preferred things to "take their natural courses."
Different people have different views on the failed "916 takeover plan" of PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, whether to carry on with the plan or to wait for the voters' mandate come the next general elections.
Nevertheless, Nik Aziz said UMNO is in for a hard time now, and even its members are demanding the establishment of an anti-corruption mechanism within the party itself, a fact that UMNO can never deny.
He said UMNO was to be blamed for what had happened in Perak, citing the example of a few state assemblymen who had disappeared before turning up again to show their support for BN.
"In the end, people are arguing tooth and nail over the constitutional issue.
"Someone has pounded a massive rock along the course of the river of democracy! Perak used to have a freely flowing river of democracy, but when the rock blocks the flow in the upstream, the water floods the riverbanks, bringing misery to the people."
He said indignantly that UMNO had snatched Nizar Jamaluddin's assemblymen, causing the state administration to be toppled overnight.
He said UMNO's action was not only undemocratic, but also un-Islamic. More to come...
By HONG WEICONG
Translated by DOMINIC LOH
Sin Chew Daily
MySinchew
2009.03.07
However, he said Pakatan leaders must work together to face their enemies outside the pact in order to bring about political stability.
"I personally don't like the phrase 'toppling the government.' I prefer to call it 'taking over the government."
He said during an exclusive interview with Sin Chew Daily in conjunction with the first anniversary of the 8 March political tsunami that he preferred things to "take their natural courses."
Different people have different views on the failed "916 takeover plan" of PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, whether to carry on with the plan or to wait for the voters' mandate come the next general elections.
Nevertheless, Nik Aziz said UMNO is in for a hard time now, and even its members are demanding the establishment of an anti-corruption mechanism within the party itself, a fact that UMNO can never deny.
He said UMNO was to be blamed for what had happened in Perak, citing the example of a few state assemblymen who had disappeared before turning up again to show their support for BN.
"In the end, people are arguing tooth and nail over the constitutional issue.
"Someone has pounded a massive rock along the course of the river of democracy! Perak used to have a freely flowing river of democracy, but when the rock blocks the flow in the upstream, the water floods the riverbanks, bringing misery to the people."
He said indignantly that UMNO had snatched Nizar Jamaluddin's assemblymen, causing the state administration to be toppled overnight.
He said UMNO's action was not only undemocratic, but also un-Islamic. More to come...
By HONG WEICONG
Translated by DOMINIC LOH
Sin Chew Daily
MySinchew
2009.03.07
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