Pakatan rakyat
The Pakatan Rakyat ( PR , Malay for People's Alliance ) was an informal opposition alliance founded on April 1, 2008 in Malaysia as an opponent of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional . The alliance disbanded on June 15, 2015 due to ideological differences between the DAP and the PAS.
The PR included the People's Justice Party (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DAP), and Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS). These three parties and the Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM) had already come together for the parliamentary elections in 1999 under the name Barisan Alternatif ( alternative front ), but fell out after the election. For the parliamentary elections in 2008 they reunited without the PRM.
Each of the parties has its own thematic focus: the PKR focuses on social justice and the fight against corruption, the PAS is Islamist and the DAP is social democratic. The leading figures in this alliance were Lim Kit Siang , Anwar Ibrahim and Abdul Hadi.
The alliance collapsed in 2015 due to irreconcilable differences between the moderate DAP and the PAS, which had set itself the goal of punishing crimes within the scope of Islamic law more severely (e.g. by chopping off limbs as a punishment for theft). Lim Guan Eng, the general secretary of the DAP, announced on June 16, 2015 that further cooperation would not be possible under these circumstances.
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC News: Malaysia's sex trial of Anwar raises political stakes , February 18, 2010, accessed April 2, 2010
- ↑ The Straits Times: Malaysian opposition alliance no longer exists, says DAP's Lim Guan Eng ; June 16, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016