Presiden UMNO, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi secara sinis berkongsi harga “katak politik” dalam tempoh sebulan ini dijangka melambung kepada RM32 juta seekor.Ahmad Zahid Hamidi secara sinis berkongsi harga “katak politik” dalam tempoh sebulan ini dijangka melambung kepada RM32 juta seekor.Katanya, bagi tempoh beberapa minggu ini, rakyat akan melihat sama ada tragedi “katak melompat” berulang.
“Kena tahu sifat ‘katak” bukan saja-saja melompat. Sama ada cari habuan atau mahu menyelamatkan diri. “Sebab itu kita minta usul undi percaya atau tidak percaya di Dewan Rakyat disegerakan, sebelum ada lagi yang terperangkap, terpedaya atau terpesona sanggup menjadi ‘katak’,” katanya. - fmt
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It’s checkmate - PM Muhyiddin has fallen...
As the panicked minions of Muhyiddin Yassin scrambled to buy and solicit Statutory Declarations (SDs) of support for the illegitimate prime minister, UMNO president Zahid Hamidi and his mentor, former Prime Minister Najib Razak, was busy collecting SDs to withdraw the support for the premier. And it’s not rocket science to guess the winner.
The game was easy – fish for as many votes as possible in a small pond of 38 UMNO MPs. With the deaths of 2 MPs, Muhyiddin must possess 111 in the 222-seat Parliament for a simple majority support. And with the Opposition in command of 107 MPs, Muhyiddin government has only a razor-thin 113 MPs, a majority of only 3 seats, without which it will collapse.
Clearly, it’s more difficult for Muhyiddin to catch all the 38 fishes than for Zahid to fish for just three to create trouble for the regime. That was why Muhyiddin bootlickers have been foaming at the mouth with hilarious and fake claims that 40 Barisan Nasional MPs (including 2 MCA MPs, 1 MIC MP and 1 PBRS MP) supported the prime minister. But they failed the Math.
With claims of 40 Barisan votes, it means there were 36 UMNO loyalists (or only 2 UMNO rebels). But UMNO veteran Tengku Razaleigh had already moved his chair out of the government bloc. Does that mean only UMNO president Zahid was alone in rejecting PM Muhyiddin? Then, they plucked another number from the sky – 30 Barisan MPs have signed declaration letters to support the PM.
But even with 30 Barisan votes, it simply means only 26 UMNO MPs were with the government. In other words, Zahid and Najib managed to catch 10 fishes, excluding themselves. With 12 UMNO rebels, the regime’s 113 seats would plunge to merely 101, effectively loses its simple majority. Heck, it would have fewer than the Opposition’s 107 seats.
However, it got worse, with insiders revealed that there were only 19 MPs from Barisan Nasional who had turned up for a meeting with the newly promoted deputy prime minister “turtle egg” Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Essentially, it means Muhyiddin administration has only maximum 92 MPs compared to the Opposition’s 107, while 21 MPs from Barisan Nasional remain neutral.
Perikatan Nasional vs Muafakat Nasional - Zahid Hamidi vs Muhyiddin Yassin
And on Tuesday (August 3), UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi found his balls to finally withdraw the party’s support for not only PM Muhyiddin, but also the Perikatan Nasional government. Mr Zahid said – “I have the sufficient number of declaration letters withdrawing support from Muhyiddin Yassin as prime minister signed by UMNO MPs and they have been presented to the YDPA Agong (King)”.
Including UMNO MP Shamsul Anuar Nasarah, who had earlier resigned as the energy and natural resources minister before Zahid’s announcement, at least 12 UMNO MPs have quit. They are Zahid Hamidi, Najib Razak, Azalina Othman Said, Abdul Azeez Rahim, Noh Omar, Nizar Zakaria, Ahmad Mazlan, Tengku Razaleigh, Ramli Mohd Nor, Ahmad Maslan and Ahmad Nazlan Idris.
But the official number could be as high as 14, after UMNO’s two MPs in Sabah – Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamad Alamin – declared as early as July 8 that they will withdraw support for Perikatan Nasional in compliance with the party’s decision to reject the federal government.
It was all about UMNO from the beginning. Without UMNO, the biggest party in the Perikatan Nasional coalition, Muhyiddin would not have become the prime minister in the first place. And now UMNO is telling Muhyiddin that the game is over. The corrupt party, which had lost the May 2018 General Election, is now redeeming its credit points, demanding that UMNO gets the prime minister post.
In truth, Najib and Zahid have nothing to lose. Najib has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined RM210 million after he was found guilty of all 7 charges of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and money laundering – involving RM42 million stolen from SRC International Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of 1MDB). Zahid, meanwhile, is still on trial for corruption charges.
The game plan was to install a new puppet as Muhyiddin’s replacement so that Najib could win his appeal and Zahid’s charges could be dropped before the next 15th General Election, without which both may become good neighbours in prison. And the prospect puppet is none other than UMNO vice president Ismail Sabri, who was promoted as the deputy prime minister less than a month ago.
However, “turtle egg” Ismail Sabri is more clueless and incompetent than Muhyiddin. Sabri was the Senior Minister cum Defence Minister in charge of combating the Coronavirus pandemic from the beginning. There’s no difference between the man with an “IQ of a carrot” and a donkey. Therefore, if he could become the next prime minister, a donkey is equally qualified.
The biggest problem with elevating Sabri as the new premier is the fact that the current Perikatan Nasional coalition will still remain fragile, even if Muhyiddin reluctantly chooses to go into early retirement (and lose face as the worst prime minister ever produced). And there’s still the elephant in the room – Azmin Ali and his gang of 10 traitors.
With Sabri and Azmin do not see eye to eye, could UMNO still work with the traitors who betrayed their own PKR party and Pakatan Harapan government? What if Azmin demands the position of deputy prime minister in exchange for his support, in addition to the status quo of the current ministers and deputy ministers enjoyed by his own band of loyalists?
As much as UMNO can threaten Muhyiddin to quit, Bersatu too can threaten Sabri, or any UMNO appointed prime minister for that matter, to quit too. The instability and infighting will continue, which will see little change in the current sagging economy, increasing unemployment, deteriorating Covid-19 infections and deaths, fleeing of foreign investors and whatnot.
With Najib and Zahid as the puppet masters, it’s also not possible for Mahathir to swing his support for an UMNO-led government. Hence, even if the captain is replaced, Perikatan Nasional is still old wine in a new bottle, commanding only a razor-thin 113 MPs. After believing Muhyiddin was the best thing since sliced bread, will King Sultan Abdullah make the same silly mistake again?
Alternatively, Tengku Razaleigh could command a bigger pool of support from both sides of the political divide. A Kelantanese prince, he will present an easier choice for the Palace. More importantly, he is expected to get the full support from former PM Mahathir, who in addition to his 4 MPs, can swing additional 9 MPs from Sabah-based Warisan.
Sure, 84-year-old Razaleigh is not perfect. But he’s the least controversial compared to Ismail Sabri or Hishammuddin Hussein, let alone Azmin Ali or Zahid Hamidi. It would be harder for both Najib and Zahid to reject Razaleigh, one of their own comrades, if the King prefers the UMNO veteran, who had lost marginally the UMNO president post to Mahathir in a close contest in 1987.
Unless Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim could quickly boost the Pakatan Harapan coalition’s current seats from 88 to above 110 in the next few days, he could miss the boat again to yet another old man. Still, there’s a possibility of a Razaleigh-Anwar tag-team. With its strong army of 88 MPs, Anwar is more than qualified to be given the deputy prime minister post.
With Prime Minister Razaleigh and Anwar as his deputy, a more stable government can be formed to focus on the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and to arrest the tumbling economy. This option will also be immune to the potential threat of plotting, scheming, sabotaging and backstabbing from power-hungry traitors like Muhyiddin, Azmin Ali or Hamzah Zainudin.
The Razaleigh-Anwar combination is the least favourable option for Najib and Zahid. There’s no guarantee that Razaleigh will intervene to free both crooks. Likewise, there’s no guarantee that Najib and Zahid will support Razaleigh. But with the public pressured stacked against Muhyiddin government, and Muhyiddin’s refusal to free them, both crooks had to take a gamble.
True, UMNO and DAP are bitter enemies, but so are Najib and Mahathir. Zahid may have screamed “No DAP” and “No Anwar”, but he can still claim victory – the throne. The first option is to install Ismail Sabri, failing which they have to live with alternative. Besides, it’s still unknown if PAS Islamist party will make a spectacular U-turn and start sucking, hugging and kissing UMNO, as the fake holy men would normally do.
Like it or not, the UMNO rebels have crossed the Rubicon – a point of no return. If Sabri is unacceptable, Razaleigh provides the middle ground for everyone to topple a common enemy – the Muhyiddin regime, which has turned the country upside down. With less than 2 years before the next election, it won’t hurt to temporarily try a new formula. The country badly needs a new effective government.
More crucially, Muhyiddin and his top lieutenants, Azmin and Hamzah, finally get the taste of their own medicine – being backstabbed and betrayed by their own ally UMNO. The withdrawal of support from Zahid is the same betrayal pulled by Muhyiddin last year, when he withdrew his party Bersatu’s support for the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan government. - FT
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