Bersih 2.0 is not only "disappointed" that several key issues were not dealt with or not dealt with in sufficient depth but also intends to hold another rally to push for the reforms that it wants. Whatever one may say about the PSC, it has been open and thorough and has listened to everyone who has an opinion on the matter.
While the PSC recommendations may not be everything Bersih wants, their views have been considered and not completely ignored. Whatever the expertise and eminence of its steering committee, Bersih should not think that it knows best and has all the answers. No one does. Though the parliamentary panel's recommendations may have fallen short of expectations, the answer is not to take on a strident tone or convene a confrontation in the streets.
The focus should be on working together and finding common ground to improve and strengthen the electoral process.
Read more: Debate, not demonstrate - Editorial - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/editorial/debate-not-demonstrate-1.71112#ixzz1r82PuTfn
The long-term effects of the weekend’s events are hard to judge. They might help to unite a normally fractured opposition in common cause against what they can all see as an assault on democracy and peoples’ basic human rights.
For the analysts like Ibrahim Suffian, a director of the Merdeka Centre, one of Malaysia's premier opinion research outfits, believe that the government's heavy-handed response to the rally may have provoked some among Malaysia's growing middle class, who were previously fence-sitters, to take a more partisan role in opposition politics.
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