COMMENT | If Bersatu comes into a coalition with Umno and PAS, it will be eaten up alive by the two Malay parties, especially as Bersatu without Mahathir means very little electorally.
| Since 2017, when Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia aligned with the Pakatan Harapan original parties namely PKR, Amanah and DAP, I had numerous lengthy and candid conversations with Muhyiddin Yassin.
The aim was to raise the racial temperature to break up Harapan and to enable Najib Abdul Razak and his cohorts to “steal” the government during mid-term without having to go through elections. Such simplistic yet popular understanding of the electoral dynamics is unfortunately shared by not just ordinary Malaysians but among top politicians and academics, feeding each other’s doomsday alarm which to a certain extent contributed to the ideological foundation of the political coup.1. The vote for PAS in GE14 was a protest vote against Najib
My point is about the patron-client social relationship that Umno, MCA, MIC and PAS sustain and maintain in rural and semi-urban areas. In GE14, the urban Malay voters went back to their rural family homes to vote against Najib and his wife Rosmah Mansor. This explains why despite having relatively strong machinery in Johor, Umno and Barisan Nasional suffered a landslide loss.
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