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| Written by Helmi | |
| Thursday, 05 June 2008 01:51 | |
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The Malaysian People's Movement Party or the Gerakan is one of the political and component parties of the Barisan Nasional coalition, the ruling party of Malaysia. It was formed in 1968 and is currently led by Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, the former Penang Chief Minister. He is the current Acting President after the former president Datuk Dr Lim Keng Yaik resigned from his post in 1997. Unlike the other component parties which are more ethnic-based, Gerakan is a more multi racial party although it is predominantly consisted of Chinese who makes up 80% of the membership, while 15% are made up of Indians and the other races total up the rest. Gerakan, who once had a stronghold in certain states like Penang suffered one of their worst defeats in the past elections where they only garnered 2 seats as compared to 10 in the election before that. After the disappointing campaign, Gerakan is set to re-position itself to regain the people's confidence and to re-launch themselves into the political arena. The party identified 3 areas in which are subjected into 3 different thrusts that will help them with these efforts. They are to voice Gerakan's ideology, policy position and advocate Malaysian solutions for various major issues, to rebuild, rebrand and re-empower the party at all levels, and to regain people's confidence. Coupled with the slogan ‘Forward together with One Heart', which was envisioned after a party wide brainstorming and discussion throughout the country, they will embark on 8 main strategies which are: 1) To formulate and voice principled policy positions and solutions for major national issues; 2) To be constructive opposition in Pakatan Raykat-led states; 3) To pursue reforms of Barisan Nasional (BN) as an effective multi-racial coalition; 4) To effectively rebuild and revitalise the party, to forge smart partnership with society and NGOs; 5) To embark on membership expansion and consolidation; 6) To boost and train more leaders; 7) To re-energise and revamp the party at all levels; 8) To further improve communication and public relations strategies.
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