Malays won’t fare better or worse if BN falls, says veteran newsman

Two Malay girls holding the Malaysian flags during last year’s Merdeka Day parade in Kuala Lumpur. Veteran journalist Datuk A Kadir Jasin believes the Malays will neither be better off or worse off is ruling coalition Barisan Nasional falls. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, June 19, 2015.

The Malays "won't be better off" if opposition parties take over Malaysia in the next general election, said veteran journalist Datuk A Kadir Jasin, but neither will they be "worse off".

But those who knew how to take advantage of opportunities would benefit from a new non-Barisan Nasional government, said Kadir, the former group editor-in-chief of the New Straits Times.

"The opposition pact cannot sideline Malays and Muslims if in the long term they want to govern fairly and preserve national peace," Kadir wrote in his latest blog posting.

Kadir said that he had written this assessment as a response to the numerous questions he received over what will become of the Malays if the Barisan government was to fall in the next general election.