MP SPEAKS Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak reversed the New Economic Model (NEM) on Sept 14, 2013, following pressure from right wing Malay extremist group Perkasa, and he went on to launch the Bumiputera Economic Empowerment Programme (BEE).

Najib’s experiments with moderate politics ended when he declared: “Therefore, the Malays and bumiputeras, as the core of the national agenda, cannot be denied by anybody. Indeed, any matter which is national in nature, which does not take into account or neglects the agenda of the Malays and bumiputeras is not fair and just...