Amid doubts over PM’s majority, social media teems with ‘katak’ jokes

 

Netizens were quick to allege that Parliament may soon play host to party-hoppers.

PETALING JAYA: After Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin declared that he was confident he still enjoyed a parliamentary majority amid calls for him to resign, netizens were quick to respond by sharing katak (frog) barbs on social media.

With a number of Umno MPs formally pulling their support for the prime minister and the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government, many have doubted whether Muhyiddin’s previously thin majority is still intact, suggesting that the only way this could be possible is if “frogs” hop parties.

Parliamentarians, in particular, were quick to call Muhyiddin to reveal his supporters immediately rather than wait until September’s Dewan Rakyat sitting for a vote.

On Twitter, PKR’s Setiawangsa MP Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad suggested the September date was to give Muhyiddin more time to gather support.

“Buying time. Buying frogs,” he posted yesterday.

Teluk Intan MP Nga Kor Ming made a similar assertion, asking sarcastically whether the September date had been set so that there was time for “crocodiles to buy frogs”.

While some users simply posted pictures of frogs with captions alluding to their political relevance, others got more creative.

User @aaron16denison compared the political situation to football’s off-season spending sprees.

“JUST IN: The August transfer window has officially opened in Malaysia,” he tweeted. - FMT

One meme compared the prices of different animals, with frogs costing RM32 million apiece, a figure once bandied about as the amount offered to politicians for their support.

Another referenced online shopping sales.