NSTopinion: Voters — who are the final arbiters of such disputes in our democracy — must be wise to the ways and games politicians everywhere play.
The idea never had much of a chance, owing largely to mistrust pervading even parties in the then Pakatan Harapan ruling coalition. That is clearly a pity. The nation faces unusual challenges in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic which compounded already gathering global economic clouds.
Some hopes have been pinned on the two states with their more diffused demographics making more of a political difference on the national stage — wracked, as always, by polarisation along racial lines. As this happened, Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen issued a statement suggesting the state opposition party was prepared to support Abang Johari in the interest of the nation. Presumably this meant both the ruling and opposition parties in Sarawak in a unified show of support behind Dr Mahathir.
And GPS, with one eye on the upcoming state polls, has to carefully navigate countervailing political risks between DAP in the PH coalition and Pas in the new one as it seeks the near-impossible prize of pleasing all voters. We have long been held up internationally as a paragon of political stability despite our patchwork demographics. Iraq and Lebanon are other patchwork societies currently in the midst of political paralysis. Another, Syria, is still in the throes of a civil war.
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