Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary leader of DAP, had admitted earlier on during a media interview session, that formation of Pakatan Rakyat in a rush, not only has led to many internal problems,  it also lacks common consensus and goals amongst its component parties.

He also admitted that the landslide victory Pakatan Rakyat had enjoyed during last general election was unexpected, hence, all promises that Pakatan candidates had given must be fulfilled not matter what.

From this statement we come to a conclusion: Pakatan Rakyat did not even expect that they could take over the state government of several peninsular states, which led us to believe, that all promises during the campaigns were made only to wow voters’ support, Pakatan candidates never thought those promises need to be “cash in”.

Lim said, that Pakatan is going through some tough ordeal now, conflicts and differences amongst the component parties need to be solved, and people should give Pakatan a chance to do so.  Question is, Pakatan has been given a chance to govern, but other than creating so many havocs, what else they have achieved so far? 

Obviously, we cannot rely on Pakatan when it comes to our nation’s future and development.  Yes, Malaysian is eager to change, but the one who delivers it does not necessarily have to be Pakatan Rakyat.  Furthermore, is Pakatan completely free of corruptions and bureaucracies？     

Lim also said that people are slowly losing their confidence towards Pakatan Rakyat and are disappointed to see the conflicts and some internal problems have yet to be resolved.

For the past 17 months, after the general election, states that are under Pakatan Rakyat have been politically unrest.  People voted for changes back then, but are these the kind of changes they are voting for?

When asked if he was confident in solving the internal crisis faced by Pakatan Rakyat, Lim was unable to give a sure answer.  His best answer was that he believed there are common desires within Pakatan to do so.  Obviously Pakatan has been given a “mission impossible” when it comes to solving differences within the alliance.

The major conflict between DAP and PAS as we all know, is on issues relating to PAS’ ultimate goal of turning Malaysia into an Islamic nation.  Even though Lim stressed that component parties of Pakatan do have certain things in common, but when the differences are so great, that they have overwhelmed what the 2 parties share in common, not only it will lead to split up of the alliance, even worse, people will suffer from this split.

Even though Lim had assured, that since Pakatan was formed by 3 opposition parties, it is impossible to amend the federal constitution, as long as either one of the party is not in favor of doing so. But since Pakatan took over government of several peninsular states, we have seen DAP and PAS’ despotism is Penang and Kedah.