NSTopinion While that summation neatly captures what animates much of the political goings-on of the moment, there is of course much more than the interplay of the two foremost party leaders within the Pakatan Harapan (PH) ruling coalition.
While that summation neatly captures what animates much of the political goings-on of the moment, there is of course much more than the interplay of the two foremost party leaders within the Pakatan Harapan ruling coalition.
Those who voted based on such an understanding are likely to be rather disappointed if things do not turn out as agreed. It might well have been that many — especially among the Malay majority — overcame some anxiety about overturning a nationalist political force that had the backing of that majority all these past decades to turf out an increasingly rotten and static political regime.
Meanwhile, non-Malay opinion predominantly has it that it is high time we all moved on and stick to the original political script. There is much impatience that racial thinking and politics have made a comeback, perhaps flippantly ignoring that they hardly ever left. It puzzles me endlessly why we keep hearing voices that multi-racial politics and political parties are the most natural state for the nation when in election after election, this has been disproven. PKR never quite made it until a well-known quantity on the most natural state of national politics helped nudge the coalition PKR nominally leads over the top.
The inescapable political truth is that as in all other democratically-inclined nations, what passes for majority opinion ultimately carries the day politically. Dr Mahathir has not been shy in needling his coalition partners about the fact that being in the same political bed with him has somehow injected political realism into them.
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