Malaysia should change PMs like Japan, says Zaid
(The Malaysian Insider) – Kita president Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has suggested Malaysians try changing prime ministers, even as Malaysia faces slower growth prospects next year.
Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda was confirmed today as the country’s sixth prime minister in five years after he outmanoeuvred rivals at an internal party ballot yesterday.
“Japan still an economic power. Despite changing PM every year. We should try it here,” Zaid, the former de facto law minister, said in a tongue-in-cheek post on micro-blogging site Twitter.
This comes after a Merdeka Center poll released yesterday showed that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s approval rating has fallen to 59 per cent after steadily sliding from a high of 72 per cent in May last year.
Najib, who came to power in 2009 with a low 34 per cent approval rating, is under pressure to reign in a ballooning budget deficit by slashing subsidies while trying to keep cost of living increases in check.
Rising inflation, which hit a two-year high of 3.5 per cent in July, was cited as the number one worry by 30.3 per cent of those polled by the Merdeka Centre earlier this month.
