Pakatan's manifesto launch puts ball in BN's court
Astro Awani
Februari 25, 2013 07:09 MYT
Februari 25, 2013 07:09 MYT
The launch of Pakatan Rakyat's General Election manifesto, themed "Pakatan the hope of the people", has received its first reactions on Twitter.
While politicians from both sides of the divide begin their online skirmishes on the feasibility of the Opposition's election pledge, there were many from the public who expressed eagerness to see the Barisan Nasional version.
One user even suggested and challenged both sides to hold debates after having launched their respective election manifestos.
There were also those who either expressed indifference or cynicism towards such a document, with comments saying that its obviously a voter fishing exercise.
On the BN side, a post by youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has received a few hundred retweets. The Umno Youth head dismissed the Pakatan manifesto as "not worth the paper it's printed on" as he said the menteri besar of Selangor Khalid Ibrahim had allegedly said before that a manifesto is not a promise.
The same line of argument can be seen in other tweets by Barisan-friendly parties, who also argued that the Pakatan manifesto was akin to a "credit card" manifesto that "spend first" and borrow later. They also said that the proposed policies would be detrimental to the country's economy.
There were also tweets which alleged that there were certain election promises that Pakatan made in the 12th general election that were not fulfilled.
On the other side of the fence, Pakatan politicians were all praises over its own product while there were also a few users who said they were impressed by it.
One Twitter user said he hoped that Pakatan Rakyat would be "morally obliged by it".