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Friday, April 17, 2015

A second chance

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The story now making waves concerns the meeting between Azmin Ali (Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s right-hand man) and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which apparently took place in London last month.
Was that the prelude to some kind of “mother of all meetings” between Dr Mahathir and Anwar? Everyone is now waiting for it to happen—after all, those two personalities shaped Malaysian politics over the past 30 years.
Perhaps they are the only two who can unite the country and lead it out of its present morass, and Dr Mahathir’s presence at the funeral of Anwar’s late father was a good sign of an improvement in the relationship between the two.
I mentioned earlier how Dr Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah could do wonders if they just sat down together to work out how to save the country. That work will be more effective if Anwar were to join the group.
Such a triumvirate would ensure the quick disposal of Najib’s Government because the Parliamentary Opposition combined with the Barisan Nasional will be enough to unseat the Prime Minister, who is now getting support from some Royal Houses (it is interesting indeed if some Malay Rulers have now decided that politics is in their blood.)
Dr Mahathir will have to abandon his dislike for Anwar because that dislike is ultimately personal in nature and should not impair Anwar’s ability to govern the country. Anwar has been convicted and is serving his time. That’s enough punishment for what is essentially a moral offence.
Anwar certainly has a lot to offer the country and Dr Mahathir knows this, otherwise he would not have groomed him as his successor all those years ago. Whatever Anwar’s faults, they are nothing compared to Najib’s wide-ranging failure to govern the country.
Anwar is not an agent of the West, as Dr Mahathir used to describe him in his anger over the financial crisis of 1998. His fault was to swallow hook, line and sinker the prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund as the only solution to manage the crisis. This would have meant massive “restructuring” that would have put the sovereignty of the nation at risk.
Dr Mahathir acted well and saved the country but he is wrong to accuse Anwar of deliberately trying to wreck the country for the benefit of the United States. He must surely know that doctors sometimes use different methods to treat the same ailment.
Anwar too should forgive and forget. He should cease describing his condition as the result of a 20-year “political conspiracy” by Dr Mahathir and others to deprive him of political power.
He must want to open a new chapter of moving the country forward. He must come up with a new plan to overcome systemic corruption, improve and depoliticise the Civil Service, abolish the Sedition Act and yet maintain public order.
He needs a new economic plan to save the country and Government agencies. He should leave conspiracies out of the discussion now and forever.
Dr Mahathir and Anwar conceived of their tag-team in 1989. They now have an opportunity to make it a success with Tengku Razaleigh perhaps as interim Prime Minister for three years in preparation for the next General Election.
Then Anwar can take over with his new plans for the country. If those plans include the so-called Crooked Bridge, why not? It’s not a bad idea to remind Singapore once in a while that we are able to decide what we want for ourselves.
Dr Mahathir will be assured that there will be no more 1MDB-types of ventures, that BR1M will be scrapped and that billions of Government ringgit will be used for proper economic policies.
Dr Mahathir can be assured that Anwar will be very pro-Islam but Malaysians will have their rights protected, and I am sure Anwar will have no difficulty scrapping the Sedition Act and other laws that are unnecessary for our well-being.
If you like my proposal, go tell Dr Mahathir, Anwar and Siti Nurhaliza. Then let’s march together on 1 May and show Najib the way out—peacefully, of course. -zaid.my

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