Politicians play chess while Malaysians struggle to survive

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The political drama that has been playing out since last weekend has been quite gripping. It culminated on Wednesday with the sudden announcement of promotions in the Cabinet. And this came at a time when Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was warded in hospital with an infection in his digestive system.

There was jubilation all around in the winning clusters in Umno and all the coalition partners in Perikatan Nasional sent non-stop statements of congratulations to new deputy prime minister Ismail Sabri and senior minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

In short, there were expressions of so much joy that the feuding leaders forgot for a moment that the Covid-19 figures had crossed the 7,000 mark again and that the deaths were still mounting.

The story of Rome’s decadent Emperor Nero and his rumoured antics in the first century comes to mind. Nero apparently played his fiddle as Rome burned and citizens suffered. He was indeed an ineffectual leader in a time of crisis.

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