What will Muhyiddin have to concede to win Mahathir’s approval?
By GE15, Perikatan Nasional would be strongly planted in Putrajaya and can no longer be defeated. By then Mukhriz would have been playing a senior role in the government and will be slotted to take over as the new prime minister once Muhyiddin retires a year or two after GE15 or around 2025 or so.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Now that the dust has settled since the ‘kejutan’ of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s resignation on 24th February 2020 (Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian prime minister in shock resignation) and the swearing in of Muhiyddin Yassin as Malaysia’s eighth prime minister on 1st March 2020 (Muhyiddin Yassin sworn in as Malaysian PM), Malaysians are beginning to wake up to the possibility that things are not really as what you think they are.
Yes, Mahathir is the Bapak Muslihat or Father of Deception. So why should Malaysians not wonder whether things are really what they are made out to appear or whether there is something else going on behind the scenes?
In politics, especially Mahathir’s brand of politics, things do not always move in a straight line. The shortest distance from point A to point B may be a straight line but in politics you need to twist and turn and meander towards your final destination.
Anwar and DAP are the real losers in this ‘blunder’ of Mahathir
Someone was taken for a ride, for sure. But who? The winners and losers of events between 24th February 2020 to 1st March 2020 may seem obvious to most Malaysians, but in politics you do not look for the obvious. You look for the hidden hands with the hidden agenda and the people who baling batu but sorok tangan.
It is now 16 days since the shock and awe of the power shift in Malaysia and Malaysians are beginning to wonder, and are beginning to ask questions, as to what the fook really happened. Is what happened what we are seeing, or saw, or is what really happened what we are not seeing, or did not see?
We have said for a long time that to know Mahathir and to understand his moves you must ignore what he says and focus only on what he does. Mahathir never really means what he says and he will contradict himself ever so often. He can say one thing in the morning and the opposite at night. The only consistent thing about Mahathir is his inconsistency.
Did Muhyiddin stab Mahathir in the back or is there another story behind this whole thing?
Mahathir will bomb London when his real target is Washington. And when everyone focuses on London he will silently wipe out Washington. And Mahathir has no qualms about throwing his friends under the bus as collateral damage. In Mahathir’s game of thrones, victims need to be sacrificed for the great good of the Grand Plan.
It is too soon to write the final chapter of this episode of Mahathir’s game of thrones. There is always the hand of God to reckon with and the Lord moves in mysterious ways. But if I was asked to write what I think the final episode would be, just for sheer entertainment purposes and as a work of fiction, I could probably allow my imagination to run wild.
The script for this work of fiction that I would come out with would be Mahathir had enough of DAP constantly blocking his every move and DAP’s relentless sabotage of the Malay agenda and the Malay institutions, plus of the non-stop pressure and harassment for him to confirm he is resigning on 10th May 2020 to hand over power to Anwar Ibrahim, that he decided to get rid of all these duri dalam daging once and for all.
Mahathir could no longer stand DAP and their treacherous ways
Mahathir had only two choices open to him. Allow the DAP-backed Anwar Ibrahim to take over in ten weeks where Malaysia and the Malays would be buried for good, or do a deal with Muhyiddin Yassin by allowing him to take over and kill two pests with one stone — DAP and Anwar. Then there was his family’s welfare to worry about, which did not look good if Anwar took over with the backing of DAP.
So, an elaborate plan was hatched where Mahathir would resign and PPBM would leave Pakatan Harapan resulting in the collapse of the government. Then Muhyiddin would take over with the support of Muafakat Nasional plus certain parties from Sabah and Sarawak.
Muhyiddin would form his new government and later Mukhriz would be brought in. Meanwhile, Perikatan Nasional will take over the Pakatan Harapan states but they will leave Kedah alone and will allow Mukhriz to continue as Menteri Besar.
Azmin is now the de facto Deputy Prime Minister
By GE15, Perikatan Nasional would be strongly planted in Putrajaya and can no longer be defeated. By then Mukhriz would have been playing a senior role in the government and will be slotted to take over as the new prime minister once Muhyiddin retires a year or two after GE15 or around 2025 or so.
Anyway, this is merely a work of fiction and would be the narrative I would write had I been asked to. I suppose it is easier to imagine that Mahathir made a huge tactical blunder and pandai-pandai tupai melompat akhirnya jatuh ke tanah and that Muhyiddin stabbed him in the back and that finally Mahathir is out of Malaysian politics for good.
