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COMMENT | PKR MP for Selayang, William Leong, has penned a long diatribe against the proposal to make Dr Mahathir Mohamad Pakatan Harapan's prime minister-designate.

He warns that acceptance of this would invite Umno's racial politics into Harapan via the former PM's vehicle, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia.

Leong's argument badly misconstrues the point of the proposition to make Mahathir Harapan's head honcho.

It is to benefit from what he could bring to the table, which is the support of portions of Umno's dyed-in-the-wool battalions, voters otherwise thought to be impervious to the charms of Anwar Ibrahim.

Also, Leong commits the error of conflating acceptance of Mahathir as Harapan's numero uno with receptiveness to the politics of racialism which, he says, Bersatu as an Umno clone, is necessarily saddled with.

This, Leong cautions, would constitute a suicidal loss of essence by the reformasi movement, triggered nearly two decades ago by Anwar's travails.

Leong's article sifts the recent history of political reform movements in several countries to make his point that accepting Mahathir as the prime choice of Harapan invites the danger of subversion, even worse, a traducing of reformasi's ideals...

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