Why Should Anwar Become The Prime Minister?

 

So, what right does Anwar have to claim the post of Prime Minister? Is it because 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament say so? What right do 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament have to decide who should be Prime Minister on behalf of 32 million Malaysian citizens or 16 million registered voters?

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

For the last six years since December 2014 (actually, it has been longer than that if we take into consideration the creation of DAP in 1965 and Barisan Nasional in 1973) we have been hearing politicians from both sides of the divide scream and shout about serving the rakyat and arguing that what they are doing is for us. But when you closely analyse the political developments over the last six years (and longer), you can see it is all about power, position and other selfish interests.

The rakyat is the last thing on their minds.

One favourite slogan politicians use is “democracy” and about fighting for democracy and upholding democracy. Anwar Ibrahim’s favourite line is “democratic process”.

What does this mean? And is it the best system in the world?

Since DAP and Pakatan Harapan say democracy and majority rule should be the system which Malaysia adopts, why protest when the majority want liquor and gambling banned in Kelantan?

Democracy simply means if ten million people want things done a certain way, then the nine million people who do not wish for the same thing are forced to agree with the ten million people and accept what the ten million people want. This is what is meant by democracy or the democratic process.

Is this fair, just and the best system in the world? Politicians are trying to make us believe it is.

Umno has 191 divisions. If 100 of these divisions choose a certain person as the Umno party president (opposed to 91 who do not), then that person becomes the party president.

Umno then has, say, 80 parliament seats opposed to their other coalition partners who all have less than 80 seats each to make up a total of 130 seats. In other words, Umno has 80 of the 130 seats while four, five, six, seven, etc., other parties have a combined total of 50 seats.

This means Umno takes the post of prime minister based on their 80 seats. And the person who becomes prime minister is the person who 100 of the 191 Umno divisions chose.

In the so-called “best system in the world”, democracy, the majority Malays decide what happens and the minority non-Malays have no say

Did the voters choose that prime minister? No! The 100 Umno divisions and 80 Umno MPs did. The 32 million Malaysian citizens or 16 million registered voters did not. The 80 Umno MPs and 100 Umno divisions chose the prime minister on behalf of 32 million Malaysian citizens or 16 million registered voters.

And this is supposed to be the best system in the world? And democracy or the democratic process is what these politicians are fighting for and are upholding?

Democracy and the democratic process sucks — and do not allow politicians, especially Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Kit Siang, tell you otherwise.

What’s so great about democracy when 80 people or 100 Umno divisions decide who becomes prime minister?

Okay, Malaysia’s current prime minister is Muhyiddin Yassin. Umno and Pakatan Harapan say he should not be prime minister because his party, PPBM, has less seats than Umno has.

How many seats out of the 222 seats does Umno have? 112?

No, both Umno and PPBM do not have 112 seats in parliament. Hence both do not have a simple majority in parliament. Hence, also, both do not quality to take the prime minister’s seat. But then Umno has a couple of more seats than PPBM. That’s all, but both have less than 20% and not 51% of the seats. And Umno won just 21% of the popular votes.

So, yes, PPBM did not win enough seats and votes to claim the post of prime minister. But then neither did Umno. So, both do not qualify — or, as Pakatan Harapan says, did not receive the people’s mandate — to become prime minister. So how can Umno claim they should be the legitimate prime minister while PPBM is not?

100 MPs on behalf of 32 million Malaysians say Anwar Ibrahim should be the PM and they say that system is the best in the world

Anwar Ibrahim says he should be prime minister. But his party, PKR, won only two million votes. So did DAP and PAS. They both won two million votes each as well. Hence Lim Kit Siang and Abdul Hadi Awang have as much right to become Prime Minister as Anwar does.

So, what right does Anwar have to claim the post of Prime Minister? Is it because 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament say so? What right do 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament have to decide who should be Prime Minister on behalf of 32 million Malaysian citizens or 16 million registered voters?

Did I give these 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament the right (or mandate, as Pakatan Harapan likes to say) to decide who should be Prime Minister on my behalf? Did 51% (or more) of the 32 million Malaysian citizens or 16 million registered voters give those 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament the right or mandate to decide who should be Prime Minister on their behalf?

Yes, who gave these 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament the right or mandate to decide who should be Prime Minister? Just because 100 Pakatan Harapan members of parliament want Anwar Ibrahim to become the Prime Minister, this does not mean 32 million Malaysian citizens, or 16 million registered voters, also want Anwar.

As I said, democracy or the democratic process sucks. But politicians are trying to make it look like democracy and the democratic process is the best system in the world. And 113 members of parliament say Muhyiddin Yassin should be Prime Minister while another 100 say it should be Anwar. And they are pretending that they speak on behalf of 32 million Malaysians.

This is also how democracy works