Gerakan’s legacy of ideas is at risk
By Neil Khor
November 2010 FEATURE
Refusing to stop smarting from the defeat it suffered in 2008, Gerakan, the party that ruled Penang for almost 40 years, may see whatever is left of its glorious legacy whitt led away and forgotten.Parti Gerakan Rakyat (Gerakan) is regarded in Penang, once its power base, as a remnant from the past. There is little enthusiasm for the party that once governed the state.Old grandees had predicted that the present Pakatan Rakyat government would collapse within six months of coming...
Neil Khor
has recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is co-author of Non-Sectarian Politics in Malaysia: The Case of Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (2008). This article first appeared in Malaysiakini.com on October 6, 2010.
