Kuala Lampur, July 31 -- Politics rewards those who win elections. Governance rewards those who can survive after victory. Can BN and PN govern together? They can't.

BN states pro cinema, PN ones, especially Kelantan, have none. No cinemas. The latter does not trust any business conducted in closed doors, even if it is a movie, in the dark.

BN is pro and PN is against. And Kelantan is where PAS claims it as its proverbial replica of good government. Even though it is the state with tremendous range of social problems from the teenage years of their residents onwards.

The distinction between BN and PAS-led PN is important. That's because Malaysian politics is increasingly obsessed with electoral engineering-while paying less attention t...