08-17-2022, 10:27 AM
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From P Ramasamy
Whether there is a possibility of DAP or Pakatan Harapan (PH) having a working relationship with Umno cannot be established on the basis of certain specious public utterances in the recent past.
At an official level, there is no such thing as DAP wanting to embrace Umno or vice versa as there is too much history of bad blood.
In fact, the politics of DAP to create a just and united Malaysian society is premised on the notion of defiance and opposition to Umno’s brand of politics that is exclusively concerned with race to the detriment of others.
No right thinking progressive political party would want to condone the nefarious racism of Umno by forming an alliance, even if this alliance is merely thought in terms of an electoral alliance albeit a temporary one.
DAP and PH, in general, paid a heavy political price by bringing in the former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to become the prime minister under the short-lived PH government.
PH, as a whole, lost support due to this marriage of convenience with Mahathir.
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