Finally 6 weeks after Gerakan’s humiliating performance in the recent GE14 where not only did they lose in all the seats they contested in, a number of their candidates also lost their deposit, Gerakan has decided to quit Barisan Nasional (BN).
Though it’s a general election too late for Gerakan to finally make the decision, it is still better late than never to cut ties with the corrupt political coalition. This Gerakan’s unsurprising and belated decision is also a wise one and political correct, unlike the other unremorseful and recalcitrant BN parties such as MCA and MIC.
Gerakan, however, has yet to apologize to the rakyat over 1MDB, the world’s biggest financial scandal. Their Secretary-General sat in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and yet he defended 1MDB. The PAC reports have since been made public, and the reports clearly show that what was happening in 1MDB was not above board.
Why is it so hard for Gerakan to apologize for being with the corrupted regime and closing their eye as the nation was being robbed blind?
Finally, the last noble thing for Gerakan to do after leaving BN is to have their 2 senators, their representative in the DBKL advisory board and their many other political appointees in various federal and state agencies resign from their BN appointed positions. They were BN appointees, and now that they are leaving BN, they should also do the honourable thing by resigning from the positions which were given to them by the BN, completely disassociating themselves from their previous partnership.