LETTER | It’s been difficult to catch a breath with all the political drama unfolding over the last couple of days.
| It’s been difficult to catch a breath, such has been the pace of the dizzying political drama unfolding over the last couple of days. And there is going to be no end in sight for a while as the jostling for power intensifies.Mahathir is not as strong as he was thought to be.There is no doubt on who has emerged the calmer statesperson so far, and who has emerged looking kind of befuddled.
This was where Team Anwar excelled in their reaction. Led by PKR president Anwar, the Three Amigos – the other two being DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mat Sabu – showed calm and a matter-of-fact leadership. That was their ultimate leverage – the ability to disrupt the party from the inside and otherwise occupy Anwar – and now it’s gone.Plus, those cabinet posts he and his cohorts occupied will probably now be vacated.This is purely speculation, but I suspect his family must have had important input in steering him to where he now seems to be going.
Azmin and his group will probably try to keep the Sheraton coalition together, but after what has transpired so far, at least some Umno, PAS and Bersatu members may not have the appetite any longer for Azmin’s plan.
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