Rafizi Ramli Not Entitled To Just Walk Out

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 He may have lost the fight in the party election but the economy minister and architect of the 13MP does not have the right to go back on his promise to help the nation face its economic challenges at such a crucial time.
Rafizi Ramli has been the man in the news lately, but for all the wrong reasons.
He is behaving like a little boy wallowing in self-pity, looking to run into his mother’s arms for comfort.
Granted he has been ousted as the number two man in PKR, but his response to the setback has been quite unexpected of someone whom many had thought could one day lead the nation.
In fact, he had been quite self-absorbed even in the run-up to the contest that saw Nurul Izzah Anwar snatch the post of PKR deputy president from him.
His advice to members and delegates to vote for Nurul Izzah, which he later claimed was a snide remark, showed him up to be a sore loser, even before he had lost.
Perhaps he knew then that the writing was already on the wall.
His pre-election announcement that he would quit his Cabinet post if he lost was yet another example of childish behaviour, unexpected of a man who once charted his party’s road to victory in the polls.
There is little, if any, justification for his response to the election result.
Firstly, he is the main man behind the 13th Malaysia Plan (13MP), a five-year development blueprint that will, to quote him, “prepare the foundation and change the structure that suits Malaysia’s next phase as a developed nation”.
Under the 13MP, Rafizi had said, the focus would be on education and upskilling to navigate the country through a rapidly changing global landscape while addressing domestic challenges.
And with the global economy in turmoil thanks to US president Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs policy, Malaysia cannot risk changing horses midstream.
Unfortunately, he won’t be there to see through the work that he had started, and promised to finish.
Neither will he be available now to help right the wrongs he thinks has beset the party and country. Given that he knows the problems, and has even proposed the solutions, he should be responsible for implementing them.
That shows him to be quite irresponsible, actually.
It is the prime minister’s prerogative to appoint whoever he thinks is capable enough to a Cabinet position, and Anwar Ibrahim would not have picked Rafizi unless he was sure that he (Rafizi) was the right person.
That also makes it Anwar’s prerogative to replace him as economy minister.
Popularity within his party is not a criteria for someone’s appointment as minister.
Rafizi owes it to the rakyat to explain why he has decided to walk out on them. - FMT

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