COMMENT | Has Gerak Independent lost the plot?

“Pride goeth before a fall” - traditional

COMMENT | The withdrawal of public interest group Gerak Independent’s (GI) candidate, former journalist and lawyer Charles Chow, for the Subang parliamentary constituency has not only thrown GI into disarray but raised questions as to whether it has lost the plot as far as GE15 is concerned.

GI has been very heavily criticised for targeting constituencies held by the opposition, PKR (4 seats) and DAP (1), and in seats which were easily won by them in the last elections. So what does it hope to do for the greater good by targeting these seats? Are the candidates going for winnable seats?

One can reasonably assume that most right-thinking Malaysians do not want Umno and its allies, which have demonstrated that there is no end to the corruption and malpractices they are prepared to descend to, to come to power.

The idea therefore is to cobble together, if at all possible, a grouping of opposition groups which will cooperate to ensure that the current Umno/Bersatu/PAS/MCA/MIC and other alliances will collapse and return power to the opposition.

Surely that cannot mean further dividing opposition votes by coming in as...