Forget Green Wave – Power Crazy Leaders Fighting For PM Post Might See Extinction Of Bersatu After Next Election
Assuming Opposition Perikatan Nasional (National Alliance) could win enough seats in the next 16th General Election to form a government, which it can’t without a shift in Chinese votes, who will become their next prime minister? The precise question should be who is the most qualified leader capable of leading not only the coalition, but also the entire nation?
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Bersatu or Malaysian United Indigenous Party insists its president Muhyiddin Yassin is the only leader who fits the bill. After all, Mr Muhyiddin had the experience as the 8th Prime Minister, never mind the traitor was the nation’s first “backdoor” prime minister. Crucially, he is the current Perikatan Nasional chairman. Therefore, his loyalists argue he is the ultimate “poster boy”.
However, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) disagrees, and actually believes the coalition’s prime ministerial candidate should come from the Islamist party itself. That’s because PAS possesses 43 parliamentary seats compared to Bersatu’s 25 (after losing 6 MPs, who switched sides and pledged support for 10th Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim), not to mention PAS has stronger grassroots and machinery.
Gerakan, the mosquito component party of the National Alliance and the obedient lapdog of Bersatu, supports Muhyiddin as the next premier, of course. Its president – Dominic Lau – argues that eligibility to become prime minister does not depend on the number of parliamentary seats and the strength of grassroots machinery. But who cares what spineless Dominic says?
If it was solely based on seat numbers, then the 10th Prime Minister would have come from DAP (Democratic Action Party), the biggest party with 40 parliamentary seats in Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan coalition. Anwar’s own party – PKR (People’s Justice Party) – won only 31 seats in the Nov 2022 General Election. Unfortunately, the leader of DAP is a Chinese, not a Malay, hence Anwar became the PM.
In fact, without DAP’s 40 MPs, Anwar can’t become the premier even with the full support of rival-turned-ally Barisan Nasional. With 82 seats, Pakatan Harapan had to work together with Barisan Nasional (30 seats) to form the Unity Government after the 15th General Election produced a hung parliament, when there is no single party or a coalition that has 112 MPs to form a simple majority government.
Heck, without DAP’s 40 MPs, Anwar still can’t become the premier even if he could convince Barisan Nasional, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and Sabah Warisan to support him. Without DAP, Pakatan Harapan would have 42 MPs, and together with Barisan (30 MPs), GPS (23 MPs), GRS (6 MPs) and Warisan (3 MPs), they would have only 104 MPs.
The math is incredibly simple – the total seats from DAP (40 MPs) and Perikatan Nasional (74 MPs) were already 114. So, there was no way Anwar could find the magic number 112 in the 222-seat parliament to become prime minister. Therefore, the real kingmaker is DAP, not UMNO as the United Malays National Organization thought highly of itself. Pakatan could still form a government without Barisan.
In the same breath, it’s incredibly dumb of Perikatan Nasional to continue playing racial and religious cards. Consistently promoting Bersatu as a racist bigot party and PAS as a religious extremist party even after the election was over has spooked the Chinese voters. Did Bersatu president Muhyiddin and PAS president Hadi Awang realize that they can form a government with DAP?
Like it or not, Malaysia is one of the most racist countries in the world because only a Malay can become the prime minister. This explains why DAP has to play second fiddle – even third fiddle – despite being the largest political party in the government. Worse, a kingmaker with 40 seats is consistently being bullied, intimidated and threatened by a party with merely 26 seats (UMNO).
It’s the same racism that saw Malay leaders betraying, backstabbing and slaughtering each other for power because they knew ethnic Chinese, let alone ethnic Indian, can never become the prime minister. First, there were backstabbing and betrayal in Mahathir-led Pakatan Harapan government. That government collapsed in just 22 months.
Then, there were similar backstabbing and betrayal in Muhyiddin-led Perikatan Nasional backdoor regime. That illegitimate government collapsed in just 17 months. Subsequently, there were again backstabbing and betrayal in Ismail Sabri puppet government. That lame government collapsed in just 15 months. And now, even within the opposition, Bersatu and PAS are backstabbing each other.
