The deep state refers to a 'state within a state' pursuing its agenda outside of the national political leadership.
Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah has reiterated that the deep state in Malaysia is out to undermine the Pakatan Harapan government.against a deep state that may want to remove the new government through undemocratic means.
Now, he said, the deep state is at work to sabotage the Harapan government’s plans to sign four other human rights treaties.“It can be inside the government and you can’t identify it.“On social media, they distribute all kinds of stories and campaigns. It could be fake news, half-truths, but the idea is to stop certain reforms from going through or to sabotage good projects from being carried out,” Saifuddin said, as reported by The Malaysian Insight.
The Harapan government hopes to ratify more international treaties within this term, that are the covenant on civil and political rights, the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, the international convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance, and the convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families.
“In these things, we as the government have to be bold and come out with our narrative and should there be any deep state people who want us to fail, we have to have our counter-narrative ready,” he said.
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