MP SPEAKS | Keep faith in Anwar’s leadership
MP SPEAKS | From Nov 6, with the first reading of Budget 2021, we knew it would be a battle all the way until Dec 15.
We are aware of how the final vote count went, which shows that Perikatan Nasional does not have a clear majority in Parliament. There are about 17 motions in Parliament calling for a confidence vote on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, but this has not been entertained by Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun.
From the time the Pakatan Harapan government was overthrown by a group of traitorous individuals, the leaders of Harapan have been planning to re-take the government.
In this aspect, the person who played the most important and aggressive role, taking the fight to PN was none other than Anwar Ibrahim...
MP SPEAKS | From Nov 6, with the first reading of Budget 2021, we knew it would be a battle all the way until Dec 15.
We are aware of how the final vote count went, which shows that Perikatan Nasional does not have a clear majority in Parliament. There are about 17 motions in Parliament calling for a confidence vote on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, but this has not been entertained by Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun.
From the time the Pakatan Harapan government was overthrown by a group of traitorous individuals, the leaders of Harapan have been planning to re-take the government.
In this aspect, the person who played the most important and aggressive role, taking the fight to PN was none other than Anwar Ibrahim.
He was the sole leader who took it upon himself to fight and bring down the PN government. We should all be praising and thanking him for doing this, as he was the only one putting his neck out to achieve what all the other members of Harapan were hoping for.
Imagine if he had succeeded, everyone would all be rejoicing and enjoying the fruits of his labour.
However, since the vote was lost in Parliament, can we now say he failed and must be removed?
What about some of the other parties, who abstained from voting during the committee stages?
If we had shown unity with all in attendance, many of the ministries’ budget votes would have been lost by PN.
I would say thank you to Anwar, for trying to bring back the people’s mandate. We need to remember that we live in extraordinary times and this means that extraordinary measures need to be taken to save the nation.
I agree we need to put aside our enmity and find ways to move forward to stabilise the nation.
The people need to understand that the state of the nation is in now and the downfall of the Harapan government is not because of Anwar, but due to Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s unilateral decision to resign as prime minister without consulting other Harapan leaders.
This was after we gave him a chance to join us in making those changes. His party was a minority in the government, even then we gave him the opportunity to become prime minister and yet he failed to deliver.
Well, enough is enough. We in Harapan must move on.
Malaysia is in a position of transition in terms of politics. No one party will be able to govern without a coalition. This is clear in what is happening to the PN government.
Umno is holding them at ransom and they will get whatever they ask for, along with PAS. This is when the people will see how corruption will be on the rise and how our institutions of government will end up sidestepping the rule of law to satisfy the greed of their political masters.
This, we are already seeing now, and it will continue to happen until a more stable government is put in place.
On this aspect, I congratulate Anwar for his efforts in trying to bring about change and we should all be in support of him, whichever way it needs to be done.
DR XAVIER JAYAKUMAR is Kuala Langat MP.
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