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Friday, March 27, 2015

POLITICAL MAYHEM IN MALAYSIA: It's now or never for Dr M to oust Najib

POLITICAL MAYHEM IN M'SIA: It's now or never for Dr M to oust Najib
If Dr Mahathir Mohamad has only one last reason to live for, what would it be?
I suspect the former prime minister would want to see his former blue-eye boy, Najib Abdul Razak stepping down as the sixth prime minister of Malaysia in the same manner he did to his nemesis, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
At that juncture, when Abdullah was removed, Dr Mahathir still had a strong grip on Umno because of his loyalists. However, some of them have since been removed from Najib’s own cabinet.
So, how Dr Mahathir will be able to achieve his one goal, is everyone’s question, especially when all 160 Umno divisional leaders are solidly backing Najib, for reasons that are too obvious. In the past week, an Umno warlord, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah himself had revealed that each divisional leader was given half a million every year in allowances.
No one has come forward to deny this, including Cheras Umno chief Syed Ali Alhabshee, who talked “big” about the need to declare assets, but despite PKR lawmaker, Rafizi Ramli having declared his assets, Syed Ali has yet to squeak. There is no sign of him walking his talk, despite challenges thrown back at him to declare his assets.
Dr Mahathir would be underestimating Najib’s power within Umno if he chooses to wage the war alone with his old gang of veterans. Although Najib has lost his popularity with the general Malaysian population, he remains in power because of the Umno backing that he received.
Let Sabah and Sarawak take their turn
This is one good reason why DAP advisor, Lim Kit Siang had even asked why it is not possible for the next prime minister to come from either Sabah or Sarawak, since they enjoy the bumiputra status as any Umno member. In fact, being Ibans or Kadazans give them even more ‘bumiputra’ status than the Mamak themselves who have the foreigner’s blood.
PM Najib and predecessor Abdullah Badawi
After all, both States were equal sovereign ‘nations’ in their own rights before they joined hands with the Federation of Malaya and Singapore to form the new nation, Malaysia in 1963.
Umno’s strength may be dwindling but the so-called ‘orders of the day’ allows Umno, and therefore Najib, to still cling on to power. This is something that Dr Mahathir himself cannot help but realise, that unless this social order is dismantled using an “out of the box” solution suggested by DAP’s Lim, Najib’s position would be hard for him to shake.
Swallow your pride, Dr M - put Malaysia first
Business-as-usual (BAU) will only yield the “BAU” outcome. Malaysian politicians have to think out of the box in order to achieve a new paradigm shift. It may be time for both Dr Mahathir to shake hands with Abdullah and Musa Hitam, in order for the Razaleigh-Abdullah-Musa camp to strengthen Dr Mahathir’s own position within Umno.
Dr Mahathir’s power base has already been eroded over the years after he left the office of the prime minister. He was at his lowest, when he stepped down. Now, he is nowhere as powerful as he was. As the proverbial saying goes, “Everyone will kow tow to you when you are in power and have money, but tomorrow, when you are a Tun ‘Nobody’, you are forever a goner!”
Therefore, for Dr Mahathir to finally see his last wish come true, he has to first swallow his own pride and work alongside with the Opposition if he chooses to oust Najib in the name of saving Malaysia from going to the dogs.
It may have to be a person like Tengku Razaleigh, who as the new prime minister, would be able to draw the support from both end of the spectrum. “Ku Li”, as he is fondly known to Malaysians, was speahearding the Opposition when he formed Semangat 46, and later re-joined Umno but remained critical of the party at large. He has been on both sides of the spectrum.
If Dr Mahathir has the sincere “love” for the nation, as he claims, he will do what it takes to save it from Najib; otherwise, we will all be able to see through the real motive behind his campaign against Najib.
As discussed in my earlier article, in politics, anything is possible, including political foes coming together to fight a common enemy; thereafter, they can part their ways.
Dr Mahathir is no stranger to such politics. Being a veteran politician himself, he knows that he cannot continue fighting a powerful nemesis without the support of his allies.
When he refuses to work with his allies, he will not only lose more grounds to Najib, but do a big disfavor to the country, which is already at the brink of bankruptcy.
Even the ordinary people on the street smell the rats from afar. Several years ago, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Idris Jala said that the country would be bankrupt in nine years’ time. After making the ‘explosive’ remarks, he later qualified his statement by saying that this would be reality if the subsidy cuts were not introduced.
Before Idris, Abdullah Badawi had also cancelled a number of mega projects such as the new causeway and the bullet train to Singapore. The reason given was that the country’s coffers could not afford such projects. What is this all pointing to?
1MDB - the hole that cannot be covered?
Dr M and PM Najib
We have been hearing about the financial conundrum that the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has entered into, and questions are being asked whether its collapse would send shocks to the country’s financial system. Although the Bank Negara governor, Zeti Aziz had said that the 1MDB passed the stress tests, Malaysians are generally still skeptical with what they hear from the government officials.
Today, one week before the implementation of the Goods & Services Tax (GST), we are seeing that the government is bulldozing ahead with the GST despite massive protest by the rakyat. Why? Is it to prevent a major financial collapse predicted by Idris?
Now, Dr Mahathir seems to be in the know as well. He has been using this to harp on Najib, but unless Dr Mahathir is willing to cooperate with the other parties, he is as good as an old dog barking at the oak tree. He will not get very far, with his old and dying regime, and veterans such as Kadir Jasin and Daim Zainuddin who are in their twilight years.
Dr Mahathir has to remember that he, himself, may not have many more years to go, given that others in his generation such as the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, are now “resting in peace” forever.
Malaysians are waiting to see if a new coalition will form after Pas is removed from Pakatan Rakyat, and PKR supremo Anwar Ibrahim is still in jail. As proposed by Sabah DAP chairperson, Jimmy Wong would a Pakatan Rakyat Baru without Pas emerge in Malaysian politics? - MAILBAG

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