The list of appointed local councillors in Selangor has been published in the local newspaper even though it was not officially announced yet. The question that people starts to raise now is whether those councillors that were appointed are really based on their NGO affiliation as claimed.
Some of the councillors representing the NGOs category are suspected to be nominees of the political parties in Pakatan Rakyat. Not many councillors were appointed from the representatives of residents associations although they represented a main chunk of the stake holders.
What really happened in the selection process? Is PR following the BN policy of appointing their own members as councillors albeit camouflaged as NGOs representatives? Is there a hidden agenda to appoint only their own members, supporters or sympathisers of PR as local councillors? If that is true, then it is not only a slap in the face for those who believes PR is different from BN but it is far more worse than BN because the people has been taken as fools! At least BN did not make any promises to appoint NGOs representatives as councillors.
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I did not place any hope in the nomination of councillors from NGOs from the very beginning as Pakatan and BN make no difference. The fact that the Pakatan state government took more than three months to come out with the list of councillors itself proved that every component party in the alliance is asking for more seats to be allocated. Who cares if you are an effective NGO?
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