AUGUST 13 — The mountain heaved and, as in the fable, produced a mouse. Or so it may seem. To some. But more than that was happening. The headline stands. After months of...
AUGUST 13 — The mountain heaved and, as in the fable, produced a mouse. Or so it may seem. To some.The headline stands. After months of protracted mobilisation and two weeks of intense campaigning, the end result was “status quo”.
The entire campaign run by his opponents was a nationwide effort not just to undermine Anwar’s federally governing PH coalition but to immobilise it and tear it down. And in the pursuit of that objective, it failed. He failed, they say, to take on the Malay ethno-supremacists and their “shari’ah-minded” Islamist authoritarian allies. The whole “blood and soil and faith” nationalist phalanx.
He chose instead to say that this, his, was a government for all Malaysians and to try to act in that way. And to seek popular, general support on that basis.They chose to act not like frothing ideologues but as responsible political managers and leaders. This, they warned, might prove disastrous. A low overall turn-out, and as part of it, a low Malay urban middle-class turn-out could cruel his party’s chances, even bring his whole national government into question and disrepute.
In Malaysia over recent days there may have been a reverse kind of “shy voter” who was choosing to remain vague or guarded about their intentions.
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