What vote of confidence?
If the government has been formed and is running, there is already an implied “vote of confidence” in Parliament.
Kuo Yong Kooi, The Malay Mail Online
I read a news item with amusement on “PAS plans to discuss with partner Umno its proposal to move a vote of confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for him to continue his premiership until the end of his current term.”
Given the current situation where there is no vote of no confidence on Dr Mahathir and the Pakatan Harapan coalition does not seem to be collapsing, it is a bit mischievous for PAS to move the motion of confidence. It looks like they are trying to stir the honest nest on the issue of Pakatan Harapan leadership.
If the government has been formed and is running, there is already an implied “vote of confidence” in Parliament. The government of the day should be given it’s full reign to run the country. There is no need for PAS to move a “vote of confidence” for Dr Mahathir to continue.
A “vote of confidence” usually happens when there is a hung parliament. Let’s say, neither of the coalition of Barisan Nasional/PAS nor Pakatan Harapan command a majority in the Parliament. In this scenario, an independent member or a small non aligned political party gives their vote of confidence to a particular coalition to form the new government for the next term.
PAS and Umno would like the whole leadership debacle to prolong up until to the next election. Their likelihood of winning the next election is high if the leadership transition issue is prolonged because it shows great disunity amongst the parties in the ruling coalition. Unfortunately that is a very unhealthy scenario for country because everything seems to be on hold due to the leadership speculation.
Since there has been many speculations of what the possible scenarios are in an event of a leadership change or no change lets look at some possibilities that can happen.
