COMMENT | What is pragmatic about the big tent?

"Tactically we must join with anyone that can give Harapan victory. It is a tactic we must consider by any means to win the most seats."

– Tian Chua

COMMENT | The big tent strategy would only be pragmatic if we were dealing with honest political operatives.

I do not mean honest in a moral sense but rather honest in their agendas of stopping Umno from regaining power and a belief that the current system in place needs reform for whatever reasons.

So far, only Pakatan Harapan – albeit weakly – supports this agenda.

All the rest of these political parties are the results of the fracturing of the Malay political establishment because of the results of the last general election when Harapan and...