"Past experience teaches us that a political culture surrounded by corrupt practices is a destructive evil.“

– Perikatan Nasional chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin

COMMENT | Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin who was a beneficiary of treachery in declaring war on Umno/BN claimed that PN and BN were “as far apart as heaven and earth", which is true in the sense that PN is the nadir of the mythical social contract that Malaysians have had to live with for decades.

BN always believed that it needed a fig leaf of non-Malay participation in government and paid lip service to the idea that Malaysia was a diverse country with equal participation for all.

PN, on the other hand, with a virulent PAS in play, is the apex of the ketuanan ideology, bankrupt of ideas, disguising its entitlement programmes as populist moves for “the people”, which really means for the Malays.

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim, when discussing the fallout from former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s incarceration...