The insinuation that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong 'overturned a democratic election result' is especially malicious.
op-ed on March 3 entitled “The Guardian view on a royal coup: a king overturns a historic election” which portrays recent political developments in Malaysia in a negative, biased and unconstructive manner.
Against the backdrop of the collapse of Pakatan Harapan government, His Majesty had taken extra care when discharging his constitutional role by taking the unprecedented step of personally interviewing all 222 MPs with a view to determining a candidate “who in his judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House”.
The article also appears to cast aspersions on Muhyiddin’s character by painting him as an opportunist who manoeuvred to secure power while others were busy fighting amongst themselves and that he is only a puppet of others. In the time which PAS has held power in Kelantan, it has demonstrated that an Islamically inclined party could govern well. Under PAS leadership, not a single non-Muslim house of worship was forcibly or illegally demolished, and neither has there been any instance of forced conversion to Islam in Kelantan. Seen in this context, allegations that PAS will bring a "Taliban agenda" at the federal level is merely irresponsible scaremongering by its political enemies, such as the DAP.
Results of the 14th General Elections in 2018 clearly show that when combined, the total votes for both BN and PAS exceeded the number of votes for Harapan.
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