The next 100 days: The battle for Malaysia’s soul
JUNE 9 was 100 days since Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as prime minister. The next 100 days until Malaysia Day will likely be the most intense period ever in our nationhood.
But Muhyiddin still has Umno, especially Najib, breathing over his shoulder, waiting for their chance to overthrow Muhyiddin and fully restore the Old Order in which Umno reigns supreme. Anyhow, Malaysians who toppled the Old Order in 2018 should be aware that PN’s situation is precarious and that the only way for us to prevent a full restoration of the Old Order is to put our differences aside, mobilise and gear up for a general election in three months’ time.
During their 22 months in office, Dr Mahathir and PH did, in fact, reduce the powers and the reach of the Prime Minister’s Office and Department. Economic planning was taken out of the Prime Minister’s Department to be part of the Economic Affairs Ministry. Attempts were made to return agencies with duplicating functions to their respective ministries. For instance, public transport is no longer a function of the Prime Minister’s Department but, rightly, a part of the Transport Ministry.
I hope both Dr Mahathir and Anwar see their historic roles akin to that of Nelson Mandela’s. Not the Mandela that was in jail for 27 years but President Mandela who knew that his responsibility was – in his short time in office – to lay a solid foundation that can last a generation or two. After a hundred days under the Old Order, many Malaysians now realise that while the Pakatan government was not perfect it was trying to do good. It was perhaps clumsy, but it was honest.
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