Rebranding Zahid
The DPM seems to be actively taking measures to repair his image.
Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today
One of the common accusations thrown at Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is that he talks like a tough guy. It hasn’t helped that he once claimed friendship with the Tiga Line group, which many members of the public see as a gang of hoodlums.
At the height of the siege on Prime Minister Najib Razak, many looked nervously at Zahid, fearing the thought of this man stepping up to take over as the nation’s Number One leader. The fear of a more authoritarian government was understandable, given Zahid’s ideology and principles, at least as he articulated them.
Certainly, the foot-in-mouth tendencies he has exhibited do not fill Malaysians with confidence in our country’s Number Two. For one, it is hard to like a grown man who can say, “Don’t expect me to warn you. Expect me to take action. This is Zahid Hamidi, okay?”
However, it appears that our DPM has lately been rebranding himself as a more moderate, even-handed politician.
