Social reforms could only be succeeded by civil society but not political parties alone. The civil society has to ensure that all political parties realise their promises.
Many perceived that there is a change of guards in government and GLC positions as “political reforms”. Most of those who hold official positions hold onto their positions by breaking their election promises.
I urge PH leaders should not equate individuals’ own positions and GLC appointments as “political reforms” without the actual institutional reforms. After all, keeping promises made to the people is what really counts.
The government of the day has to listen to the people and maintain two-way communication because at the end of the tunnel people are their boss. Those who issue statements against PH election promises should step down from their positions.
Malaysian shall not evolve into a stagnant democracy like Japan where there is no actual bipartisan system and LDP could win with low electorate support. Japan’s Social Democratic Party joined the government with LDP in the 1990s and it now has become an insignificant opposition party. The Democratic Party could only rule one term due to relegation and infighting. It has since then been dissolved.
Pakatan Harapan’s Component parties especially DAP, PKR and Amanah learnt from Japanese experience where a conflict of values and ideology with PPBM has threatened very survival of each component party as PPBM top leaders have broken promises more than once and too often.