WHEN I was in the corporate sector, I discovered that with an affiliation, a corporation can be sustainable with more potential customers that can be pulled to buy the products or services it serves.

There’s no way for customers, especially those who do not really know the corporation’s core businesses, to spend their hard-earned money for seem-to-be-similar-to-others services that the corporation provides.

That’s the best befitting analogy to describe how the unsettled local politics could be fixed, at least before the next general elections kick off.

The political crisis that is happening these days seriously needs to be fixed with immediate alternatives that must be made available and ready by any political leaders who keenly aspire to reinvigorate this beloved land.

One of the alternatives that can be offered is a comprehensive political affiliation that can formulate strategies that would not just efficiently steer the existing recovery plan, but could also prove to the rakyat that the politicians, whom the rakyat electorally chose, can be politically together to mend the problems that we are enduring.

That political togetherness means that, regardless of partisanship, a federal governance must be stably concerted with all political leaders, whose parties have membership in both Houses of the Parliament, sitting together to head this nation towards recovery that the rakyat are loudly demanding.

No one would be pleased with the political characters that are being shown and played by certain politicians, especially those whose political beef is very minuscule. 

At this very time when the pains suffered by the rakyat need an instant heal, the electorally-entrusted politicians, be they ambitious or not, have to eradicate their personal and political interests and find corrective ways that can temporarily stay them away from their political egoisms that bring nothing but durable uselessness.

A very certain political affiliation that is beyond a brand has to be formidably formed with a very credible, eloquent and experienced lower-house parliamentarian being given a room to captain it.

That affiliation will be just fictional if there are political leaders of weaker competitiveness who still egotistically think that, “Why should I jointly be in a venture with that man when I can be the one who can lead?”

Political egoism does not and will not benefit the wellbeing of the rakyat whom the political leaders must have their allegiant focus on.

The wished political unity or affiliation, if it is made a reflection in the mirror by a politically-uncompetitive party leader, will make him question himself, “How could I not be with them, a stronger bloc, since I am not that adequately credible to be alone?”

If it is not an affiliation that those ‘you-are-no-good-I-am-better’ politicians can offer, what else can be done by them to really work for us, the rakyat, their master?


* Amerul Azry Abdul Aziz is an independent writer who now views politics as something that can be researched.

** The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of Astro AWANI.