03-19-2022, 11:55 AM
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By P Ramasamy
Quote:Mahathir’s whim and fancies
Twenty-two months was not a long period, but it was enough to sink the Harapan as a whole in the quagmire of politics.
During these 22 months, Harapan accommodated too much with the whims and fancies of Mahathir who was never comfortable with his association with Harapan in the first place.
Harapan was used and manipulated to serve the short term interests of Mahathir especially to prevent the return of the former ousted prime minister Najib Tun Razak.
Harapan’s reform agenda articulated in its manifesto could not just take off.
Mahathir was the biggest stumbling block in the implementation of the manifesto.
ADUN SPEAKS | There is no end to analyses as to why Pakatan Harapan lost not in the recent Johore election but also in Melaka and Sarawak.
The failure to make comeback in the elections has been attributed to low voter turnout, too many competing parties, lack of opposition coherence in formulating an agenda and the strength of BN/Umno.
These reasons have a role in why Harapan lost the elections and why component parties such as Amanah and PKR had a disastrous performance.
Even the intact DAP lost some seats in all these recent elections.
Harapan reached its political height in the 2018 general election.
What was thought impossible was made possible by the capture of federal power by the opposition.
With Mahathir Mohammed as the prime minister, the victory was a pyrrhic one, it was just a matter of time it became a political disaster for Harapan, something that has come to be a nightmare for PH as a whole until today.
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