This is the state of the trio of parties that harbours hopes to take over the government by 2013.
- One is a Chinese-based party that Malays fret about. It wants to sell beers wherever it could, never mind if this discomfited many Muslims.
- Another is an Islamic party that the 40 per cent non-Muslims worry about. It wants to stop beer sales and given a chance would push its narrow interpretation of Islam down people's throats. Then again, another group within this party doesn't really care about these issues and is willing to give up some of its Islamic rights in order to come to power. Or so it seems.
- The third party, it seems, is the worst of the lot. It has a great talking-head loved by the foreign media. Someone who is seen by many in the 40 per cent group of saving the country from Umno (not a bad proposal).
But his party was cobbled from liberal Malays, liberal Chinese and Indians, hard-headed NGO types and disgruntled Umno-ians.
So now one has jumped over the cuckoo's nest, in Kedah. He joined the duo in Perak who jumped last March.
And one from the Chinese party who jumped at the same time.
And there are rumours of more defections - three to five - in coming days.
There are suspicions of money having changed hands.
How to run a country like that?
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