08-14-2021, 02:21 PM
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By Murugesan Sinnandavar
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has finally come out to make an offer to form a unity government with bipartisan support from MPs across party lines.
A commendable move. However, it is a little too late in the day.
This call should have been made at least a year ago when he had his slim majority and just before the second wave of the pandemic was about to hit us.
The PM didn’t make the call back then. He didn’t even do it when Parliament reconvened for a special sitting last month.
He let loose members of his bloated Cabinet to run the show as they wished, ignoring all advice from experts and members of the opposition. He then advised the King to declare a state of Emergency and suspended Parliament.
He didn’t talk about the need for checks and balances back then. He didn’t call upon opposition leaders to join forces to fight the pandemic when he had the power.
He held absolute power during the Emergency and ran along with it. The results are here for all to see. Daily Covid-19 cases are in the region of 20,000, the daily death rate in the hundreds and our economy is in tatters.
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