Upon Dr Mahathir’s resignation as Prime Minister in 2003, when Tun
Abdullah took over, the long serving political party Barisan Nasional
has won the next general election with a landslide victory. Many says
that this is a blessing and support from the people are back to BN.
After a term of 5 years Tun Abdullah lead the country, Dr Mahathir
returned and started to be active not only politics but dictating his
usual temperament in criticising openly his successor. For the first
time in our political history, BN lost its two thirds majority in GE 11.
Pak Lah eventually relinquished his position to pass on to Dr
Mahathir’s choice, Najib Razak.
Dr Mahathir’s comeback appears to be a new hope for BN to regain the
Dewan Rakyat majority of 2/3 but it still failed. However, it is more
disappointing when Dr Mahathir had aggressively campaigned throughout
Malaysia for BN. Some constituencies have been Dr Mahathir’s main focus
such as Shah Alam, Gelang Patah and even Pasir Mas and all the three
candidates have lost their seats with a bigger majority for the
opponents.
There are many factors to BN failure to regain the majority of 2/3, and
above all, the urban voters were marred by Dr Mahathir’s presence who
still carries the image of a dictator and an ultra-Malay NGO Perkasa. In
other words, the return of Dr Mahathir into UMNO has the slightest
contribution and is not able to maintain the 2/3 majority.
In their attempt to take over Putrajaya from BN, the opponents are even
fragmented among them. Pakatan Rakyat was dissolved but remain in
Selangor and Pakatan Harapan existence with PAS splinter leaders new
party are still unable to gain momentum and what more to oust BN
especially Umno.
Realizing the support of the majority
could not be obtained from majority UMNO leaders and grassroots, Dr
Mahathir in his mission to bring down DS Najib Razak, he is almost
certainly that all his strategies are at his wits’ end. Dr Mahathir
became even more desperate when his son was also eliminated as Kedah
Menteri Besar after Muhyiddin and Shafie Afdal was dropped from
ministerial team.
Although never denied a private meeting
with some opposition leaders, 1MDB ties a knot between Dr Mahathir and
several opposition leaders through Claire Brown, a fraudelent writer for
them. Dr Mahathir finally had to surface and indirectly acknowledged
their secret meetings, after holding hands with Kit Siang and flanked by Azmin and Rafizi.
With the declaration made aimed to save
Malaysia from DS Najib Razak’s leadership, but many sees it as
Mahathir-Lim Kit Siang declaration pack. Again PKR failed to shine even
Azmin was earnestly beside Dr Mahathir.
o reassure their supporters, Rafizi has
led Dr Mahathir to their PKR stage to speak a few days ago and this
first series was held at Rafizi’s constituency when in the last general
election he won with an increased majority. But it was a terrible let
down even with the two ‘superstars’ present when the expected thousands
audience failed to turn up. We can witness from picutres distributed in
the social medias that Dr Mahathir and Kit Siang could not even put on
smiles or any cheerful gestures.
Many were said to leave the ceramah much
earlier when even towards half of Dr Mahathir’s speech are about
recycled statements that as urbanites such informations are accessible
from the internet. Until almost the end of Dr Mahathir’s talks, there is
still no show of regrets and what more apologies from him to admit his
past mistakes to jail their defacto leader.
Tell us, is this the beginning of Dr Mahathir’s jinx to the oppositions?
Sources ... PRU14.tv
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