八点最热报 | 有分析认为，行动党现在正站在一个关键的世代交替十字路口，这绝不仅仅是林冠英个人的去留，而是行动党未来政治路线的终极搏杀，最主要的原因是，行动党如果要继续当政府，要面向更广大的马来群众，林冠英身上的标签就不适合再以行动党的权力核心人物的身份出现。（主播：萧慧敏）
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00:04The Action Party will hold a central party election on March 16 next month.
00:11Although the party has been creating a sense of unity recently,
00:16it still can't get rid of the rumor that someone in the party is going to kill Lin Songshen.
00:21Why do some people think that Lin Guanyin, who was once a high-ranking official in the party,
00:28is now about to be sent away?
00:32As mentioned in our report yesterday,
00:34the Action Party is now standing at the crossroads of a very critical generational transition.
00:41The Australian University of Tasmania,
00:43Director of the Asian Research Institute,
00:45Zhan Yunhao pointed out when he was interviewed by the 8 o'clock Zui Rui Bao,
00:48that this is not just Lin Guanyin's personal departure,
00:53but an ultimate slaughter of the Action Party's future political path.
00:57The main reason is that if the Action Party continues to be a government
01:02and faces a wider audience of Malay people,
01:05the label of Lin Guanyin is no longer suitable to appear as the core leader of the Action Party.
01:12Zhan Yunhao pointed out that the Action Party has not been seen as an anti-party for ten thousand years,
01:19but now it has become one of the ruling parties.
01:23This is a completely opposite role.
01:26In the past, what the Action Party relied on for a long time was the support of Chinese votes.
01:30But we can see from the election in the previous few years
01:34that the Chinese support for the Action Party is almost close to the ceiling,
01:38and the space for growth is tiny.
01:42If the Action Party wants to continue to grow,
01:45simply relying on Chinese votes is far from enough.
01:49The Action Party must walk out of the comfort zone of the Chinese community,
01:53and attract the support of the Malay community and the non-Chinese community.
01:57However, Lin Guanyin and his father Lin Jixiang have long been labeled as anti-Malay and anti-Islam by state governments and Malay right-wingers.
02:06This image can be said to be deeply ingrained in the hearts of the Malay community,
02:11making the Action Party seem to have hit an invisible wall when fighting for Malay votes.
02:17In contrast, the image of the new generation of leaders, such as Lu Zhaofu, is more gentle and easier to be accepted by the Malay community.
02:24Therefore, he believes that the action party's mission is to adapt to the new political reality.
02:30Lin Guanyin must also accept that it is time to change his role,
02:35and no longer walk the streets as the core leader of the Action Party.
02:41They think that the future of the DAP is really not in the Chinese community.
02:45The future of the DAP is really to promote this idea of a Malaysia without racial distinction,
02:51or minimize the racial distinction.
02:53And that the future of the DAP is really to reach out to the majority group.
02:57And in this case, this is the Malays in Malaya and the non-Muslim Bumibutra in Sabah and Sarawak.
03:04Zhan Yutao emphasized that the current leaders of the Action Party clearly know that if the Action Party wants to maintain political influence in the future,
03:10it must expand the non-Chinese, especially the Malay voter base.
03:14Whether they like it or not, the Uyghurs and the E-Party have been labeling Lin Guanyin as anti-Islam and anti-Malay for years.
03:22This negative image has become the burden of the Action Party.
03:25Compared to this, the new leadership is easier to be accepted by the Malays.
03:29Therefore, there is public opinion that only by sending God to replace the new leadership,
03:33can the Action Party truly achieve a diversified transformation.
03:36You have to remember that Guang Eng has a very bad image in the Malay community.
03:41So, because of the years of Barisan indoctrination and propaganda,
03:45Guan Eng and his father have been portrayed as anti-Islam and anti-Malay.
03:50While on the other hand, the new leader of the DAP has a very positive message in the Malay community.
03:56So, among this group, it's common sense that if we want to make DAP relevant in the future,
04:02we have to widen our voting base to include the Malays,
04:05and we need Chinese leaders who can reach out to the Malay ground.
04:09And people like Anthony Locke have been doing what I call a better job than Guang Eng.
04:14Zhan Yuntao said that although Lin Guanying has not worked hard,
04:17but in the past 30 to 40 years,
04:19Wu Tong and the DAP's political blackmail against him and the Lin family
04:22has been deeply rooted in most of the Malays,
04:25making it difficult for him to break through this situation.
04:27However, for the Action Party, it should start to embrace a diversified approach.
04:30Politician Pan Yongqiang pointed out that
04:32whether the Action Party can truly achieve diversification is subject to multiple factors.
04:37To a certain extent, the Action Party already has other ethnic representatives
04:40who have shown a certain diversity.
04:42Although diversification is important,
04:44how to ensure that the core values are not blurred while fighting for Malay voters
04:49is a key challenge that the Action Party must face.
04:52If it's not right, even the original supporters of the DAP will be lost.
04:56If we over-accept the Malays,
05:00but we have to compromise on some basic principles,
05:04then the party's position and claim will be blurred.
05:07The result of the blur is that all aspects are not adjusted well.
05:10So the Action Party must still have its own positioning and clear position
05:15in order to help voters.
05:17If it is purely for diversity,
05:19but it is simplified or blurred in many principles,
05:24it may even lose its original supporters.
05:29Pan Yongqiang believes that
05:30if the dissatisfaction of the Chinese community is caused by facing the Malays,
05:33the Chinese community may not come out to vote.
05:36But Pan Yongqiang believes that
05:37if the good and the harm are taken lightly,
05:39the Chinese will be more afraid of unilateralism.
05:41And after the Xi Jinping coup in 2020,
05:45this time the Chinese community may be more patient to continue to support the Action Party.
05:49My gut feeling tells me that the Chinese are not willing to give up on the DAP yet.
05:54For very simple reasons,
05:55that the Chinese in Malaysia has changed,
05:57the demography has changed.
05:59They understand the sort of constraints the DAP is working under
06:03and they are willing to give the DAP more time.
06:05So in 2018, when they did not handle the reforms properly,
06:09they spooked the Malay community,
06:11the government fell within 24 months.
06:13So they understand it,
06:14so this time I think they will give the DAP a bit more time.
06:18Huang Qingfa, a political scholar at Shuanghui University,
06:20believes that the biggest challenge for the Action Party now is
06:22how to be the second largest party in the government representing the Chinese and non-Malays,
06:26and not to let the main political parties of the Malays feel threatened.
06:29The problem that the Action Party is facing is that
06:31the Action Party has not found a position in the country yet.
06:35The key is not in the Action Party,
06:36the key is that the Malays found that
06:39the way they attack each other
06:42is to say that you are controlled by the Chinese.
06:44So unless the Action Party becomes a eunuch,
06:47otherwise the Malays who are against it
06:50will describe it as a monster.
06:53The Action Party wants to eliminate the foreigners.
06:56In the eyes of its voters,
06:58it is equivalent to saying that
06:59you sell the ball, you become a quiet party.
07:02So the Action Party is actually stuck in this dilemma.
07:10Zhang Yunhao also pointed out that
07:11the Action Party has attracted a lot of professionals to join in 2015.
07:16And these young people are looking at the party's future with a completely different attitude.
07:21In their opinion,
07:22to promote real change,
07:23the key is not to stick to the Chinese issue,
07:25but to win the regime
07:27and go deep into the process of public policy.
07:30In other words,
07:31the Action Party can no longer be trapped in the support of a single ethnic group,
07:35but to expand the map to a broader political stage.
07:38Therefore, Zhang Yunhao believes that
07:40this election is not just a power shift,
07:43but a choice about the future path of the Action Party.
07:46If it does not change,
07:47the Action Party will fall into a bottleneck
07:49and become a Chinese party that can never expand its map.