Sunday November 1, 2009
PR: Only credible candidates in future polls
IPOH: The Pakatan Rakyat has vowed to field only credible candidates in future elections, to avoid a repeat of the “tragedy” that costs it the Perak government, former Perak mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said.
He said this pledge, which was among the 10 resolutions passed during Pakatan’s first state convention at a hotel here yesterday, would ensure that the coalition would not be compromised.
During the one-day convention, the 600 delegates also voted for the registration of Pakatan as a political party to be carried out soon.
“We are already in the process of registering ourselves with the Registrar of Societies.
“A committee has been assigned to look into this,” Nizar, who is also Perak PAS deputy commissioner, said at a press conference after the convention.
The delegates also voted to reject ethnic segregation within the Pakatan and its component parties.
Nizar said that Pakatan’s struggle did not contain any racist elements, be it in the PKR, DAP or PAS, unlike the Barisan Nasional.
Perak DAP chairman Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham said the Pakatan had moved one step forward after yesterday’s convention.
“There is common understanding, a sense of common destiny and common value in that Pakatan bases its value system on human value.
“We are humans first. We are all fellow human beings, then only are we Malay, Chinese, Indian, Kadazan, or any other ethnicity,” he said.
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