We’ll have to see next 2 days for further developments/defections if any.

From what YB Kit said, it sounds like SAPP (assuming in conjunction with DSAI) embarked on an amateurish attempt without considering standing orders. If they have not consulted you, it is worse, how come such an ambitious project of voting the government out under the auspices of Pakatan Rakyat or its defacto head can be embarked upon without first consulting strategy co-ordination or standing orders with DAP & DAP’s supremo, LKS?? This really eludes me!

Want to defect – you defect, and number of defections totalling up eventually will, by logic of the situation, dictate the course whether the government will resign & King dissolve parliament for fresh election.

No need for the melo drama of making public an unprecedented call to move a motion of no confidence on PM in Parliament on Monday when one is not sure whether Parliamentary standing orders support it (or that the Speaker will defect along with you)!

You are dealing with a government of 50 years reign that has all the reason in the word to remain in power and thwart your ambitious project and you come unprepared! It is like beating the grass to alert the snake.

What the latest development has precipitated is uncertainty and unpredictability. I am not surprised if BN even imposes emergency rule!

Will there be a political domino effect? This is not certain. Now I am not even certain of the PR’s defacto head (DSAI)’s leadership that he could pull it through to bring others to follow SAPP’s step.

There are two reasons for this.

First, I am aghast that when SAPP made announcement for vote of no confidence on PM on Monday, Kit has said that there is no parliamentary standing order providing for it to be done, which suggests to me that this major project to dislodge the BN government has been undertaken by DSAI without proper consultation with DAP’s top leaders or else SAPP would not have opened its cards on something that this thread says is subject to procedural limitation. A notice of 14 days can change everything. During such a time anything can happen. SAPP can change its mind; PAS can join UMNO and even BN can invoke emergency rule. What kind of planning is this???

Second, when DSAI is supposedly on verge of initiating a take over of government starting with SAPP’s announcement today, PAS Youth, unrestrained by PAS top leadership could throw a spanner in the works by presenting, at this very critical juncture, a memorandum to Selangor Mentri Besar’s Office to protest and demonstrate against performance of rock queen Ella and Dangdut singer MAS Idayu on July 6th, heedless it would alienate non Malays and moderate Malay PR supporters at the time when unity is important before the take over!

What does that suggest?

It suggests that even PAS have not been properly consulted and coordinated in the big move scheduled on Monday.

The fact that PKR and Selangor did and said nothing against PAS memorandum suggests that they don’t care about the image and voice of the DAP state assembly men in the Selangor State Government or that they want to prioritize appeasing PAS and overlook its excesses.

More important for YB Kit not to be consulted in a major initiative to be launched on Monday (if he had, surely this matter of standing order would not be raised in this thread) it reflects that DAP is of no great standing in Pakatan Rakyat’s scheme of things as run by Anwar which makes DAP’s supporters wonder whether they will really be better off under the new regime led by Anwar appeasing PAS, and not consulting DAP and that tolerating the BN to carry on might not actually be the lesser of the two evils!