Muafakat Nasional Umno Pas Mca Mic The New Barisan Nasional If So Malaysia S Doomed

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Ecstatic by the Tanjung Piai results the BN now wants Pakatan Harapan to call for fresh elections as according to opposition leader Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri, the Pakatan Harapan government has “lost the people’s confidence”
People confidence or no it is obvious BN in particular Ismail ,believe the big win in Tanjung Piai will “propel ” BN back into power it lost last year in GE14 .That’s how I read his remarks to mean anyway
To PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang the Tanjung Piai by election results showed the multi racial public has accepted the political charter that Umno and PAS sealed recently known as Muafakat Nasional or MN
Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in echoing Hadi say the Tanjung Piai win “shows the people’s recognition of Muafakat Nasional
Taking the remarks made by the PAS and Umno presidents , that would mean the Chinese have accepted MN because both used the term “multi racial public’ and “people’
So is that the situation ? I mean are the Chinese embracing MN when many of them voted for BN in Tanjung Piai ? Zahid had also said The Chinese are back with BN. If that is true no wonder Ismail is excited to say the least
But first thing first – is MN the new BN
Political analyst Dr Sivamurugan Pandian tells me it is a political ideology platform “to start a new collaboration initiative with various platforms to strengthen BN and others including PAS”
Hence will MN replace BN ? Meaning Umno, MCA,MIC to name three sitting with PAS in MN? “ I cant see that just yet – the collaboration will remain without merging – they can work closely on certain issues but to merge will need lots of sacrifice and compromise,” say Siva
But bear in mind as stated in my previous article for this newspaper , research outfit Ilham Centre say if the Umno PAS alliance want to have a realistic chance of winning GE15 it must contest under one common logo .This can be done by PAS using the BN dacing logo
Or for a brand new coalition be formed comprising Muafakat Nasional ( Umno PAS ) together with non Malay parties like MCA and MIC as well as parties from Sabah and Sarawak
Based on Siva’s observation that is not about to happen and as rightly pointed out by Ilham Centre CEO Mohd Azlan Zainal ,the BN brand has been known for ages among the components but with it comes a heavy burden because of previous bad experience
As Azlan sees it MN is more “significant as a catalyst movement for Malay support” . As such according to Dr Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at Singapore Institute for International Affairs, Umno and PAS “ would certainly like MN to be in essence the new BN , what with MCA, MIC and the likes to act as tokens of multiculturalism ,while masquerading their racially supremacist and religious extremism political agendas”
Now back to the earlier question – are the Chinese embracing MN ? Based on the way they voted in Tanjung Piai
To Oh , the huge Chinese vote swing in Tanjung Piai is no doubt a resounding vote of no confidence on Pakatan Harapan’s determination and performance thus far in addressing what they perceived as “entrenched racialist and overly religious policies first propounded by the previous BN administration
However say Oh “ it would be far fetched to surmise that the vote swing is an automatic endorsement of the Chinese for Muafakat Nasional which is an intensified manifestation of the alliance between the racially supremacist Umno and religiously extremist PAS”
If I may add. Many Chinese interviewed by the media days before the Tanjung Piai poll said they had wanted “to teach Pakatan Harapan a lesson “. Many see teaching a lesson do not mean severing ties forever . Now that the Chinese have taught Pakatan Harapan a lesson can it be concluded that if Pakatan Harapan have indeed learned from their mistakes then Chinese support will come back
I dont know if Ismail Sabri is still excited wanting fresh elections
Mohsin Abdullah– Mysinchew

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