Umno talak tiga Bersatu dan PAS

But no Malay party can form the government without the non-Malays. So the non-Malays would be able to exploit the situation and place a high price for their support. In the end, the Malay parties would have to sacrifice a lot for the non-Malay support and to be able to form the government. As the Malays say, menang sorak kampung tergadai.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Umno has officially announced it will not compromise or enter any electoral pact or alliance/coalition with Bersatu and PAS in the next general election or GE15. This comes as no surprise considering the many statements that have been made since early 2020 indicating that Umno does not accept Perikatan Nasional or Bersatu, or anyone who is a friend of Bersatu.

PAS is expected to stay with Bersatu, which means PAS can consider itself an enemy of Umno. Several states have already announced that Umno at state level will never enter any electoral pact with PAS even if headquarters does a deal with PAS. They have vowed to fight PAS in every seat in a three, four or more-corner contest.

The relationship between Umno and Bersatu-PAS is beyond repair. Umno fears that Bersatu-PAS will take most of the Malay votes and the only way Umno can claim it represents the Malays would be to wipe out Bersatu and PAS.

The only way Umno can survive would be for it to wipe out all the other Malay parties. This would mean not only Bersatu and PAS but Warisan, Pejuang, Putra, Muda, etc., as well, and to a certain extent PKR, too, which has quite substantial Malay support.

The problem is, there are about ten Malay political parties (if you include Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s plan to revive Semangat 46) while only 60% of the voters are Malays. However, more than 95% of the Chinese are united under DAP-Pakatan Harapan.

This basically makes it a very crowded market for the Malay votes while DAP-Pakatan Harapan have a monopoly on the non-Malay votes.

For centuries the Malays have never been united and have always been colonised by foreign powers. The British realised that the Malays can be divided and ruled when they first landed in Malaya 300 years ago. The Malays are very tribal and parochial and have indulged in wars amongst themselves for as long as history can remember.

To say the Malays are their worst enemies would be to put it mildly. The Malays have never suffered or had to fight for their survival, which means they do not suffer siege mentality like the non-Malay ‘pendatang’. And that is why unity has never been the DNA of the Malay race.

But no Malay party can form the government without the non-Malays. So the non-Malays would be able to exploit the situation and place a high price for their support. In the end, the Malay parties would have to sacrifice a lot for the non-Malay support and to be able to form the government. As the Malays say, menang sorak kampung tergadai.