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Menanti Bentuk 'Pengorbanan' Tsu Koon Pada PRU13 Menanti bentuk ‘pengorbanan’ Tsu Koon pada PRU13 MINGGU lalu Presiden Gerakan, Dr. Koh Tsu menang pun belum pasti menang. Inilah Koon menyatakan kesediaannya ‘mengor- dilema BN. bankan diri’ sekiranya itu mampu memberi Contohnya di Batu Kawan. Kenapa kejayaan kepada parti dan Barisan Nasional Tsu Koon yang popular dengan kedu - (BN) pada pilihan raya umum (PRU) akan dukan KM tewas? Ramai yang melihat datang. Apakah bentuk pengorbanan itu? Ia Batu Kawan kawasan selamat kerana masih rahsia. Tsu Koon akan mengumum- sebelum ini menjadi milik BN. Dan Tsu kannya kemudian selepas perincian dan per- Koon, jika mahu bertanding, eloklah bincangan dilakukan. Menteri di Jabatan Per- kembali semula ke Pulau Pinang. Pilih- dana Menteri itu menyatakan demikian pada ahli baru membuktikan Ge- lah mana-mana kawasan Gerakan yang ucapan penggulungan Persidangan Gerakan rakan-rakan dalam parti komponen Barisan rakan masih relevan. Te- kini dikuasai DAP sama ada Bukit Ben- Ke-40. Tsu Koon tewas pada PRU lalu ke- Nasional (BN). Lebih-lebih lagi BN pada PRU13 tapi jumlah ahli belum ten- KOH TSU KOON dera, Batu Kawan, Jelutong atau Tan- pada calon DAP, Prof. Dr. P.Ramasamy di mahu menebus kekecewaan yang dicatatkan tu menjamin kemenangan. jong. Ada juga yang mencadangkan Tsu kawasan Parlimen Batu Kawan dengan ma- pada PRU12 yang menyaksikan parti kom- Pengundi atas pagar, pengundi tidak berparti Koon memilih Bagan jika Guan Eng masih joriti 9,485 undi. Angka itu lebih besar da- ponen seperti MCA, Gerakan, MIC kecundang. akan menentukan menang atau kalah calon. berhasrat bertanding di kawasan itu. Tetapi ripada majoriti yang dimenangi Gerakan pada Menyelak kembali keputusan PRU12 itu, tiga Justeru, Gerakan malahan parti komponen apakah keupayaan Tsu Koon? Di Bagan, pada PRU sebelumnya melalui Huan Cheng Guan presiden parti komponen BN tewas iaitu Gera- BN yang lain perlu melakukan sesuatu untuk PRU lalu, Guan Eng menang majoriti 22,070 yang menang dengan majoriti 8,998 undi. kan, MIC dan PPP. MCA bertanding 40 kerusi mengembalikan kecemerlangan BN. Salah sa- undi mengatasi majoriti Lim Hock Seng (DAP) Selepas kekalahan memalukan itu, beliau Parlimen tetapi menang 15, Gerakan 12 (me- tu daripadanya ialah memilih calon yang pada 2004, sebanyak 3,622 undi. Adakah mahu meletak jawatan kerana ingin bertang- nang 2), MIC 9 (3) dan PPP gagal di kerusi boleh menang. menawarkan diri untuk bertanding di Bagan gungjawab terhadap kekalahan teruk Gerakan tunggalnya, Taiping. Dan bagi Gerakan, apakah langkah Tsu sebagai satu pengorbanan Tsu Koon? terutama di Pulau Pinang yang menjadi kubu Daripada tiga kerusi ditandingi di Perak, Koon seterusnya? Ada yang mahu beliau Jika diselak rekod yang lalu, Tsu Koon kuat parti. Bagaimanapun jawatankuasa ter- Gerakan hanya menang di Gerik, di Johor tidak bertanding. Ada juga yang mendakwa mula menjadi ahli Parlimen Tanjong pada tinggi parti menolak kerana bukannya masa menang kerusi tunggal di Simpang Renggam. beliau akan berhijrah ke Simpang Renggam. 1986. Beliau gagal mempertahankan kerusi untuk menyalahkan mana-mana pihak seba- Parti itu tewas di semua empat kerusi di Pulau Dan ada juga yang mahu beliau melakukan itu apabila tewas kepada Setiausaha Agung liknya bersatu memulihkan keyakinan rakyat Pinang, di Selangor hanya satu kerusi ditan- pertarungan ‘hidup atau mati’ dengan meng- DAP ketika itu, Lim Kit Siang yang berhijrah kepada parti. dingi tetapi tewas. Begitu juga di kesemua tiga hadapi Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng ke Pulau Pinang bagi menjayakan misi Tan- Kini selepas tiga tahun, Tsu Koon, Presiden kerusi di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur yang juga Ketua Menteri (KM) Pulau Pinang. jong I pada 1986. Tsu Koon berehat sepenggal Gerakan Ke-4 selepas Prof. Syed Hussein Ala- juga kecundang. Mana satu pilihan Tsu Koon? Wajarkah beliau dan menjadi setiausaha politik KM ketika itu, tas, Dr. Lim Chong Eu dan Dr. Lim Keng Yaik Di peringkat Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) bertanding? Jika wajar di mana? Adakah untuk Chong Eu. Beliau kemudiannya bertanding di terus dikritik hebat oleh kawan dan lawan. pula, Gerakan hanya mempunyai empat kerusi menyelamatkan maruah seorang presiden, ia DUN Tanjong Bunga pada 1990 dan kejayaan Malahan sebelum itu, Ketua Pergerakan Wa- iaitu dua di Johor dan masing-masing satu di perlu diperuntukkan kerusi yang selamat? berpihak kepadanya malahan dilantik se- nitanya, Tan Lian Hoe menyarankan supaya Kedah dan Pahang. Di Pulau Pinang, Gerakan Dalam politik, kawasan yang dianggap se- bagai KM bagi menggantikan Chong Eu yang Tsu Koon tidak bertanding pada PRU13. Niat bertanding 13 kerusi DUN tetapi semuanya lamat belum tentu selamat lebih-lebih lagi ditewaskan oleh Kit Siang di Padang Kota. Lian Hoe hanya untuk menyuntik semangat tewas. Begitu juga tewas semua kerusi di Perak bagi ‘orang luar’ kawasan. Dalam hal ini, ia Pada 1995, di DUN yang sama, beliau me - parti. Sebenarnya apakah motif di sebalik (4), Selangor (4), Negeri Sembilan (2) dan Melaka tidak seperti berlaku pada calon-calon pakatan numbangkan Kit Siang dengan majoriti 7,703 kritikan terhadap Tsu Koon itu? (1). Begitulah wajah lesu dan pengalaman ngeri 3P iaitu DAP, Pas atau PKR. Penerimaan pe- undi dan kekal pada 1999 dan 2004 sebelum Sebagai ahli politik, Tsu Koon tentunya Gerakan pada PRU lalu. ngundi terhadap calon 3P ini tidak menga- ke Batu Kawan. faham maksud tersurat dan tersirat dalam Justeru, apakah Gerakan kini sudah pulih mbil kira dari mana asal usul mereka tetapi Begitulah perjalanan politik Tsu Koon. Ada- kritikan atau teguran terhadapnya. Beliau ten- dan terus relevan? Berdasarkan kenyataan lain pula bagi calon-calon BN yang terlalu kah PRU13 sebagai PRU terakhir atau PRU tu lebih faham kehendak ahli-ahli parti serta Tsu Koon baru-baru ini, pendaftaran 30,000 banyak ‘masalah’ sehingga calon yang boleh untuk beliau bangkit semula?.
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