COMMENT | Time for a third force opposition coalition

COMMENT | Would a coupling of Warisan, Muda, Gerak Independent (GI), and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) work for GE 15 and beyond?

Warisan president Mohd Shafie Apdal recently said his party was willing to work with any political coalition that secures the people’s mandate. The leaders of Muda, and GI have made similar statements. PSM, which has the longest-lived and developed programme of policy alternatives relating to the nation’s socio-economic problems has always cooperated with parties taking on the ruling coalition.

With an electorally shaky PKR, which has performed poorly across the last three state elections, it makes sense for Warisan, Muda, GI, and PSM to combine forces in some sort of electoral cooperation, or even coalition for the upcoming general election.

This new and potentially game-changing Third Force grouping has a number of strengths that can appeal to many voters.

For example...