‘No one in Pakatan fit to be PM’
Yayasan 1Malaysia chairman, Chandra Muzaffar, feels Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is not the right candidate because he carries with him too much of baggage.
Priscilla Prasena, FMT
No leader in Pakatan Rakyat is fit to be the Prime Minister, if the opposition pact made up of PAS, DAP and PKR, wins the 13th general election.
Yayasan 1Malaysia chairman, Chandra Muzaffar, said none of the opposition parties’ leaders fit the mould of Prime Minister, while their best bet Anwar Ibrahim carries with him too much excess baggage.
“Anwar Ibrahim will not be the right candidate due to his background. During the Asian Financial crisis in 1997, he made a mess of the Malaysian economy. He adopted policies which resulted in huge losses and as a result businesses closed down.
“During his tenure as Education Minister in 1986, Anwar introduced numerous pro-Malay policies in the national school curriculum which caused ethnic tensions,” said Chandra in an exclusive interview with FMT.
Chandra said one of Anwar’s major changes in the Education Ministry was to rename the national language from Bahasa Malaysia to Bahasa Melayu.
Chandra, who is the founder of International Movement for a Just World, added that non-Malays criticised the move saying that changing the name of the language would make it more Malay than Malaysian.
“His closeness to the powerful lobbies internationally doesn’t support the national agenda and I somehow feel that it is dangerous to the nation.”
“Anwar is known to have close links with Al-Gore [the former US vice-president] who may have his own agenda against this nation. The Malays and general public understand the dangers behind this,” said Chandra.
‘Malays may not prefer Kit Siang’
Chandra also ruled out former DAP secretary-general Lim Kit Siang as Prime Minister should Pakatan win the general election.
