COMMENT | In DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng’s statement yesterday, he subtly blamed PKR for Pakatan Harapan’s defeat in the Johor election for using its own PKR logo (instead of the Harapan logo) as the major cause, and not the poor voter turnout.

He cannot be more wrong.

The opposition alliance did not use a common logo in both GE12 (2008) and GE13 (2013), and yet it scored spectacular successes in both.

In 2008, it made a historical breakthrough by bringing what DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang then described as a “political tsunami” whereby it captured five states.

And in 2013, it continued its record-breaking streak by winning the popular vote of over 50% of total votes cast.

And even in GE14 (2018) when Pakatan Harapan captured the federal government for the first time in history, this time with a common logo, that common logo happened to be PKR’s party logo, which Guan Eng now attributed PKR’s use of it as the main culprit of Harapan’s defeat.

So, how could Guan Eng possibly justify Harapan’s stunning reversal of its electoral fortune from winning 36 seats in the 56-seat Johor assembly in 2018 to only 12 seats now by simplistically attributing its main cause as PKR using its own...