Anwar Ibrahim has no right to be a leader. So reports Bernama .

According to Bernama news, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a once-upon-a-time prime minister of Malaysia, said that Anwar Ibrahim - a rising star of prime ministerial hope for many, has no right to be a leader.

With the Tun’s latest nightmare tantrum addition, the rakyat will now keep wondering since when did this edit come into place on the Malaysian political landscape.

The question is since when did individuals anywhere on this democratic planet “have a right” to be a leader?

And in making that allegation, the Tun has only further bulldozed home into the minds and hearts of Malaysians and the world-over, the perception that Dr Mahathir is the slayer of democracy and guilty of desecrating the sanctity of voting in a democratic manner.

In the first place no one has any right to be a leader. In a democracy that the world is fighting hard to promote, uphold and defend, it is the voting citizens - the community of people, who choose, anoint and consecrate an individual to be their leader.

By stating that one has a right to be a leader the Tun is certainly marketing tyranny. As long as one thinks he or she has a right to be leader, he or she clings to power. That is tyranny. It is not democracy, Tun!  

Indeed, each time Anwar Ibrahim takes centre-stage on the political circuit, Tun gets all worked-up and jittery. One cannot help but conclude that Tun must be having nightmares at the prospect of Anwar becoming the chosen, anointed and consecrated leader for all Malaysians.

So, his recent media statement through Bernama - the national news agency, that there is a right to claim leadership clearly should ring alarm bells within and outside the nation. Champions of democracy will clampdown the enemies of democracy for democracy is the platform for the new age civilisation taking root across the planet since the dawn of Glasnost (openness) and the democratisation of Communism.

Tun, the people decide. Not you. Not Umno Baru. Not Anwar.

But at least Anwar has the humility to know that fundamental truth, but sadly not you.