Can PKR continue as the glue that binds Pas and DAP in a formal coalition?

The defection of 10 of PKR parliamentarians and state assembly representative is the worst thing that has ever happened in the political history of Malaysia.

For Pas and DAP, this cannot be an asset but a liability. Although the political circumstances are different today, yet it dealt a damaging blow not only to PKR but the opposition coalition as a whole.

Clearly, it serves as the evidence of an increasing degree of unacceptable behavior in the opposition coalition. The attacks on the coalition and internal degradation seem to cause the parties to fall apart and mark the beginning downfall of the opposition.

Politically, major party defection is extremely rare and the defection took PKR by surprise. It was a crushing setback for opposition parties, instantly reducing what limited power opposition has in the Dewan Rakyat. The ability of the opposition to stop legislation or to block BN agenda is now crippled if not eliminated in some instances.

The engineering for political defection has long been heavily criticized for being unethical but no effective public effort being made to exert pressure over the issue and especially on the defectors. Typically, PKR too has been criticized for ineffectiveness in its basic mission which needs to bear the political consequences and be prepared for the worst political wave. On the other hand, it’s interesting to take note on the numbers of defectors that have we seen in the other direction.

Apparently, it frees people up to question what they really believe the relevancy of the PKR elected parliamentarians and state assembly representative.

The political climate is more unfavorable for PKR now and the opposition leader’s popularity has dramatically fallen. Several studies concluded that the opposition coalition do not have any takeover opportunity in the Dewan Rakyat, in fact the studies show no indication that the government of the day could be collapsed.

It is skeptical of the urgency of the defection of the PKR parliamentarians and state assembly representative problem. After all, there is some precedence for PKR high leaders changing their minds.

There need to wonder how many more PKR high leaders will be outing themselves as skeptics? Ironically, they may never constitute a majority, and many of them have differing views emanating from contrasting political ideologies in coalition parties, it only need to take few of them to be right for the deflection for PKR to collapse.

The question therefore is not whether Anwar Ibrahim will retain as the Opposition Leader and PKR de facto leader, instead the deteriorating political influence caused by the political defection of 10 of PKR parliamentarians and state assembly representative.

The critical question remains: Can PKR indoctrinate to retain its parliamentarians and state assembly representative as well as continue as the glue that binds Pas and DAP in a formal coalition?