Anything But Reform?

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The madness continues, but there is method behind it without a doubt.

The election in Sarawak has been postponed using emergency powers to sideline the Constitution yet again. Yet again, this has been on the grounds of Covid.

Meanwhile, it is known that the Limpet of Putrajaya has been floating a proposed general election in the middle of this same pandemic in the hope he can remain in power rather than stepping down. By contrast again, he has frozen Parliament for another month (again on grounds of Covid) as he tries to buy yet more time to buy back MPs.

Yet over in Johor the Sultan, also brother in law of the Agong who has tolerated weeks of these appalling antics by the minority PM he himself appointed, has today announced he has no compunction in dissolving his own state parliament if it doesn’t do as he wants – or ‘plays politics’ as he describes it. In this case, as with the proposed general election idea, the pandemic doesn’t seem to matter.

What is one to make of this inconsistency and seeming madness by the limpet prime minister and his royal patrons? The simple answer is that it is all consistently self-serving.

The Sultan of Johor met with his former long-standing Menteri Besar Mahiaddin just days before the so-called Sheraton Move that resulted in Mahiaddin’s traitorous defection from his own party and back-door coup (thanks to the ‘surprise’ appointment of himself by the Agong).

The same Sultan expressed no concern when the Johor state government was then switched to a new leadership to suit the post-Sheraton power arrangement set up by Mahiaddin.


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