Shadow Cabinet from Pakatan Rakyat?

Seeing recent suggestions and blogs on shadow cabinet by Pakatan Rakyat, I would like to propose a suggestion - instead of appointing direct shadow ministers on par with over 30 ministries, select only important ministries and set up a shadow committee/shadow secretariat/whatever name, to check and balance the respective ministry.

In the shadow committee (just a proposed name, SC hereafter), there will be members from all three PR parties, each from PKR, PAS, and DAP. And if there's no suitable MP who's specialised in that respective area, SC member can come from research/thinktank under that party. For example, we cant find a suitable candidate from DAP who's specialised in finance, but remember that under DAP there are thinktank and advisors who are specialists in that area, and he can be appointed to the SC.

And on my point to set up SC on only important ministries - there are currently over 30 ministers in current government, which makes Malaysia among nations with highest number of ministers. Among these ministries, the jobscope and responsibilities in certain ministires and seriously overlapped. PR does not have to set up SC to oversee all of them. Just set up, say 10-15 SCs, and some of these SC can oversee 2-3 ministries.

There are a few adv in this structure-
- to identify suitable candidates in respective specialisation
- to maintain fair representation of all PR parties
- better communication among PR component parties
- centralised and coordinated action is possible
- more transparent operation
- show to all that PR has the capability to govern in federal level
- last but not least, rakyat know who should they see to voice out problems if one arises.

P/s: remember that members in SC are merely potential candidates. and SC system acts as testing period to identify the best candidate for future minister - SC also eliminate potential criticism and unhappiness among PR component parties, because there is representative from each party - the best wins, no question asked. ALso, in the case of unsuccessful promotion to become 'minister', member of SC can possibly become deputy, or secretary-general, which is very good too.

Whatever form of shadow cabinet structure, PR urgently needs to come up with something, if they aim to take over federal govt - to avoid the messy situations like we saw after the GE12 ie in the states of perak and selangor.

Way to go PR!