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TIME FOR ANWAR, AZIZAH TO STOP BEING SELFISH & LET GO: WHOEVER IS NEXT PM MUST BE POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE – MUKHRIZ BUCKS TREND, TELLS OPPOSITION TO NAME PM
EVEN before election day. Pakatan Harapan must name the person it has picked as prime minister of Malaysia, said an opposition leader.
By doing so, Malaysians will be able to measure the stature of the PH candidate against Barisan Nasional’s Najib Razak and decide on the type of leader they want to govern the country.
So said Mukhriz Mahathir, deputy president of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia in an interview with The Malaysian Insight.
The former Umno man’s views on the need to name its PM candidate is a break from the position held by his father, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and other senior leaders from PKR, DAP, Amanah and Bersatu.
The general view is that anything that can cause dissension within the ranks should be put on the backburner till after the 14th general election (GE14).
It is an open secret that the coalition partners have not been able to reach a consensus on who is the future PM of Malaysia should Pakatan Harapan win GE14.
DAP and some segments of PKR support Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail but Bersatu believes that former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin will be able to assuage any fears the Malays may have over the nascent opposition coalition if he is nominated as the future PM.
Then there are others in the opposition who think that, in the interim, Dr Mahathir should be the PM and that Anwar Ibrahim should take over the top post once he is granted a royal pardon.
Mukhriz did not want to get drawn into speculating on who would be the most qualified among PH leaders to be their PM candidate but noted that the candidate must be “acceptable and even popular” with the rakyat.
It is unclear if the opposition wants GE14 to be a referendum on Najib, as opposed to a battle between two coalitions and their ideas.
Below are excerpts from the interview:
Q: It’s been about seven months since Bersatu was set up. In that time, you’ve gone from signing a formal cooperation pact with Pakatan Harapan, to finally joining PH as a full-fledged member. It seems there was hesitance to cooperating with PH. First, Bersatu wanted to be outside and now it’s inside. Can you explain why this occurred? What changed over the few months between signing the cooperation agreement in December and March, when Besatu formally joined?
Mukhriz: Our friends in PH understood that we needed to continue in our attempts to bring PAS into the opposition fold instead of letting them become a so-called “third force”. We all felt that our chances of defeating BN were better in straight rather than three-cornered fights.
By being at the periphery of PH initially, Bersatu could continue to discuss with PAS about a possible political pact while collaborating closely with PH.
Nevertheless, the inconsistent statements coming from several PAS leaders made us realise that we needed to give them ample time to decide for themselves the path they wanted to take.
Will they join hands with Umno, become a third force, or join a political pact with the other opposition parties like us? We felt that their muktamar should be the right occasion to decide on this once and for all.
However, we also didn’t want to waste valuable time waiting until end-April with the GE looming. And so it was decided that we needed to join PH officially while at the same time, keep a window open for PAS if they wanted to continue talking to us.
Q: PAS will have its muktamar at the end of this month and observers say that is when it will finally decide whether it will be a third bloc or be with PH. If it decides to work with PH, Bersatu will have to negotiate seats with PAS. If not, how prepared is Bersatu to face PAS?
Mukhriz: We are prepared for any eventuality. Our studies show that PH can still win in three-cornered fights. But our collective chances are significantly improved if a pact is struck with PAS.
I believe that PAS would surely want to defend Kelantan and perhaps take over Terengganu. If they realise that their chances will improve greatly if they collaborate with us, then surely, they, too, must support our candidates in other states.
Three-cornered fights in Kelantan might land the state in Umno hands. If PAS wants to avoid that, they too must reciprocate in other states. While the top PAS leadership is giving mixed signals, their state leadership seems more practical and know exactly what they want.
And they are very willing to work something out with us. Also, grassroots PAS members can’t imagine cooperating with Umno although they have no qualms doing so with Bersatu.
Q: In a Malay-majority seat, how is Bersatu going to take on PAS and Umno at the same time? What will your message be to undecided Malay voters over who to choose, between PAS, Umno and Bersatu? Especially to those scared of DAP taking over the PH and dictating terms?
Mukhriz: Splitting the opposition vote will only benefit Umno. So, if PAS were to go on their own, it would be as good as handing the seats to Umno on a silver platter. Our campaign under such situation would be to convince the electorate that a vote for PAS would be a vote for Umno.
Voters in the Malay belt are beginning to see through the Umno propaganda that supposedly DAP will be dominant in a PH government.
Going by GE13, DAP contested only 51 out of 222 seats, and won 38. Of course, DAP has strength in numbers from among the current opposition because the opposition has only 91 seats in Parliament.
But we would need north of 112 seats to form government. So, with a win of more than 112 seats, the number of DAP seats as a percentage of the total will be reduced, thus negating the notion that they will dominate a new PH government.
We want Malay voters to see Bersatu as a Malay party ready to assume the responsibility of securing their interests while never undermining the interests of others. We want them to realise that Umno has exhausted the right to expect Malay support as they have betrayed their constituents to the extent of selling the nation merely to save Najib.
While Bersatu does not want to be seen as an Umno 2.0, we do want to replace Umno as the party for Malays with the interests of the nation at heart all the time.
Race-based politics may seem at odds with the times, but as long as the Malays, especially in the rural areas, demand that an Umno-like party looks after their interests, Bersatu will be there to do exactly that.
Only after PH has won in GE14 and formed a new government can we look into allaying the fears of all races so as to move away from ethnic politics.
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