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Pemilihan Keadilan: Jalani Tanggungjawab Demokratik Dengan Etika Posted: 13 Sep 2010 08:42 AM PDT Parti Keadilan Rakyat memperkenalkan sistem pemilihan yang demokratik; memberi ruang kepada setiap anggota menentukan calon pilihan mereka. Maka di atas pundak setiap anggota dibebankan tanggungjawab untuk memastikan idealisme perjuangan dan tuntutan reformasi terus dipertahankan dengan penuh rasa tanggungjawab. Prinsip tersebutlah yang kelak menjadi asas pertimbangan, dan bukannya tuntutan luaran atau sogokan. Kaedah etika pemilihan wajib dipatuhi semua. Rakan2 serta pemimpin di peringkat akar umbi juga melahirkan keprihatinan dan melontarkan beberapa cadangan tambahan buat pertimbangan pimpinan. Maka sesuai ditegaskan bahawa adalah hak anggota memilih berdasarkan prinsip perjuangan parti. Saya menginginkan persaingan yg sihat; dengan semua calon yang dikemuka mematuhi etika pemilihan sepenuhnya dan tidak mendakwa mendapat restu saya. Saya juga tidak akan menerima sebarang pencalonan untuk sebarang jawatan dalam parti. ANWAR IBRAHIM |
New dynamics of Turkish politics Posted: 13 Sep 2010 08:39 AM PDT he Constitutional Referendum and New Dynamics of Turkish Politics On September 12, 2010, exactly thirty years after the 1980 military coup, Turkish voters went to the polls to vote on the largest constitutional amendment since the current constitution was adopted in 1982. The amendments seek to cure the many deficits of the current constitution drafted by the army generals who carried out the 1980 military coup. They aim at expanding the sphere of individual rights and civil liberties, bringing the standards of Turkish democracy closer to that of the European Union (EU) in which Turkey is seeking full membership. The new changes include, among others, the establishment of ombudspersons, ensuring positive discrimination for children, women and the handicapped, and collective bargaining for public workers. The most hotly debated changes in the current referendum pertain to the structure of the Constitutional Court and the High Council of Judges and Public Prosecutors, the two key institutions of the Turkish judicial system. The political landscape All these facts reveal the deep fault lines of Turkish politics. Politically speaking, the 'yes vote' is a victory for the ruling AK Party and consolidates its electoral base. Faced with the fierce opposition of nationalist and secularist parties, AK Party will increase its self-confidence in electoral politics and continue to carry out political reforms. The most important challenge for AK Party after this victory, however, is to manage the growing divide between the reformists and groups who cling to the status quo. Not unlike the anti-Obama attitude of the tea party goers in the US, the anti-AK Party segments of Turkish society feel an existential threat in AK Party's growing electoral base and reformist policies. Many of those feelings are misplaced and reflect the petty realities of party politics. A similar dilemma is awaiting Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party. Bahceli had the hardest time explaining his 'no position' to his constituency, a political community that has lived the hardships of the 1980 military coup and the uneven structure of the judiciary. The opposition parties' all-or-nothing style of opposition contributes to the ideological divide and makes it next to impossible to seek nation-wide consensus on Turkey's key issues, a daunting task at which both the government and the opposition have largely failed so far. Such issues as writing a new constitution, the political reforms needed for Turkey's EU membership, and the Kurdish issue all call for a broad-based consensus space in Turkish politics. Paving the way Dr Ibrahim Kalin currently serves as Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey and is a fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is the author of Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy: Mulla Sadra on Existence, Intellect and Intuition (Oxford University Press, 2010) and editor together with John Esposito of Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press; forthcoming). |
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