Anwar’s most elusive strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority
Yes, the price for the post of PM9 is very high indeed. Can whoever who wants to be PM9 afford that price? If not, then in the meantime, Muhyiddin will continue to be prime minister until a higher bidder comes along and ups the price. And it will have to be a price that will not benefit the rakyat but will only benefit the person who wants to become PM9, plus those people who support him to become PM9.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
In October, Anwar Ibrahim claimed he has a strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority in parliament. This means he has more than just 113 members of parliament who support him to take over from Muhyiddin Yassin as the new Prime Minister or PM9. He has about 135 to 140 MPs with him.
Anwar claimed he had met up with Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong to show the evidence of this alleged strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority. This evidence was supposed to be a list of names of those 135 to 140 MPs who want him to oust Muhyiddin and take over as PM.
Istana Negara, however, denied this. The official statement from Istana Negara said Anwar just claimed he had this strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority in parliament — or 135 to 140 MPs who want him to oust Muhyiddin and take over as PM — but he did not reveal the list of names.
Anyway, whatever it may be, Anwar was going to demonstrate this strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority that he had by passing a backdoor vote of no confidence in parliament last Thursday, 26th November 2020. And this backdoor vote of no confidence would be in the form of sabotaging Budget 2021.
Anwar’s most elusive strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority is proving to be a farce
Before they could even see what Budget 2021 was all about, Umno and Pakatan Harapan rejected it because, it seems, it did not include certain things. But when Budget 2021 was finally tabled, it included all those points that Umno and Pakatan Harapan said was not included but now was included.
That gave very little room for them to reject Budget 2021 — since it was now a budget that Umno and Pakatan Harapan wanted. The fact that Budget 2021 was not seriously flawed in the first place, and that there was nothing that could not be fine-tuned to perfection — but they were opposing Budget 2021 merely as an excuse for a backdoor vote of no confidence — made it very difficult to continue with the farce.
But now the Pakatan Harapan grassroots and supporters are angry. They feel cheated. Anwar told them he has a strong, formidable, convincing and close to two-thirds majority in parliament. But then only 13 MPs stood up, not enough to make any impact. Where are the 135-140 MPs who support Anwar and Pakatan Harapan to oust Muhyiddin and his Perikatan Nasional government?
The problem is, even if there are 135-140 MPs who oppose Muhyiddin, not all 135-140 MPs support Anwar to take over as prime minister or PM9. Some support Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, some support Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, some support Azmin Ali, some support Najib Tun Razak, some support Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, and so on.
The bottom line is, the anti-Muhyiddin group is split into many factions. However, while these many factions might be opposed to Muhyiddin, not all of them want Anwar as prime minister.
And herein lies the problem. What happens if they do successfully oust Muhyiddin through a backdoor vote of no confidence by sabotaging Budget 2021? Who will take over as prime minister?
They cannot agree who should be PM9 if they successfully oust Muhyiddin Yassin
They cannot seem to agree on a mutual candidate acceptable to everyone. They were hoping that this mutual candidate acceptable to everyone would be Tengku Razaleigh. But Tengku Razaleigh cannot even get three MPs to support him. So how to unite Najib, Dr Mahathir, Anwar, Zahid, Tengku Razaleigh, Azmin, etc., (plus PAS, Sabah, Sarawak) and agree on a common or mutual candidate for PM9?
Well, first of all, the common or mutual candidate for PM9 will have to make many concessions to get accepted as the common or mutual candidate. If that person is made PM9, who is going to be the deputy prime minister (must be an Umno man)? And are they going to drop all the court cases against the Umno leaders and Rosmah Mansor? Are they going to return Umno’s money they confiscated and the RM1.1 billion cash and valuables they confiscated from Najib’s condo?
Yes, the price for the post of PM9 is very high indeed. Can whoever who wants to be PM9 afford that price? If not, then in the meantime, Muhyiddin will continue to be prime minister until a higher bidder comes along and ups the price. And it will have to be a price that will not benefit the rakyat but will only benefit the person who wants to become PM9, plus those people who support him to become PM9.
