The take home message from the panelists at the SDP Forum on the future direction of the opposition held at Orchid Copthone Hotel yesterday is unmistakable: The opposition, civil society and blogging community must work together in order to do a “Malaysia” in the next election.
The political tsunami which hits Malaysia’s shores last year March was cited frequently by the speakers a cause for hope to reinvigorate the flagging opposition movement in Singapore which has seen its key leaders arrested, jailed, bankrupted and exiled for the past few decades since the totalitarian PAP came into power in 1959.
The question often raised by politicians and observers here which must have been in the minds of the PAP too is this: Malaysia and Singapore are very similiar politically, socially and culturally. Will the same feat achieved by the Malaysian opposition be replicated here one day ?
Not for the time being.
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The political tsunami which hits Malaysia’s shores last year March was cited frequently by the speakers a cause for hope to reinvigorate the flagging opposition movement in Singapore which has seen its key leaders arrested, jailed, bankrupted and exiled for the past few decades since the totalitarian PAP came into power in 1959.
The question often raised by politicians and observers here which must have been in the minds of the PAP too is this: Malaysia and Singapore are very similiar politically, socially and culturally. Will the same feat achieved by the Malaysian opposition be replicated here one day ?
Not for the time being.
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.com/?p=4966
