22 Sebab Mengapa Mahathir Tidak Boleh Jadi PM Lagi..

Dalam catatan di Facebook pagi ini, Ronnie Liu berdasarkan pengalaman mempertikaikan kenapa nama Tun Mahathir sekali lagi dicadangkan sebagai Perdana Menteri andaikata PH kembali menerajui Kerajaan..

<!--more-->Katanya dia bimbang Mahathir mungkin menggunakan kedudukan calon perdana menteri PH sebagai tawar menawar untuk berunding dengan bekas sekutunya yang kini merupakan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin. 

"Dia mungkin bersekongkol dengan Muhyiddin dan Azmin Ali lagi jika tawaran itu bagus dan pinggirkan PH," katanya yang mempunyai sejarah mengkritik Mahathir.

Beliau juga mempersoalkan apakah Mahathir mempunyai kemampuan untuk mendapatkan jumlah sokongan yang cukup dari anggota parlimen dan berpendapat bahawa jika bekas perdana menteri itu gagal melakukannya, PH akan berisiko kehilangan semua kredibilitinya sebagai gabungan politik.

Liu juga tertanya-tanya apakah Yang di-Pertuan Agong bersedia berjumpa dengan Mahathir sekiranya mempunyai sokongan yang cukup?

"Mahathir mungkin tidak mahu mengundurkan diri setelah enam bulan seperti yang dijanjikan dan sekali lagi menolak untuk menyerahkan jawatan perdana menteri kepada Anwar.

"Dia mungkin mengundurkan diri dan keluar dari PH lagi. Atau dia mungkin hanya membubarkan parlimen," ...

Itu pendapat atau persoalan yang dibangkitkan oleh Anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Sungai Pelek, Ronnie Liu meskipun pada ketika ini , DAP, parti yang dianggotai Liu menyokong usaha Mahathir untuk menjadi perdana menteri sekali lagi di bawah gabungan yang disebut "Pakatan Harapan plus" .

Berikut adalah 22 sebab kenapa Tun Mahathir tidak boleh jadi Perdana Menteri sekali lagi yang disenaraikan oleh Ketua Pengarang Focus Malaysia, P. Gunasegaram yang berpengalaman lebih dari 40 tahun dalam dalam bidang kewartawanan, penulisan dan perundingan.

Sebelum menyertai Focus Malaysia, beliau pernah berkhidmat sebagai wartawan, penganalisis dan kolumnis , menubuhkan portal berita perniagaan, KINIBIZ, pada Februari 2013.

Pernah juga berkhidmat sebagai editor di penerbitan utama di Malaysia, termasuk The Star, The Edge, Waktu Perniagaan dan Perniagaan Malaysia. Dia terkenal sebagai kolumnis dalam kedua-dua masalah perniagaan dan sosio-politik.

Without further ado, let’s get into the reasons. In the interest of brevity and readability I am not going to say too much but state one or two of the most important supports for my assertions. Here goes:

1- He cannot be trusted as he breaks promises and lies. He promised over and over again that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would succeed him when he had no intention to let him do so. He said much earlier that his only aim was to remove Datuk Seri Najib Razak as PM but changed his tune later.

2- He broke manifesto promises. He excused that by saying he did not expect PH to win. The truth was he did not want to because many of the promises could be quite easily met. He even pulled out of a commitment to sign ICERD, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

3-He did not reform and he had no plan. He did not make any of the reforms promised, especially with regard to balancing powers within the administration and reducing the power of the PM. Instead he became dictatorial despite having only 13 MPs out of 222 under his wing, including himself, in the 2018 elections. He offered no plan for the nation going forward.

4- He gave more power to Daim than the cabinet. One of the first things he did after becoming PM again was to appoint his bosom buddy and crony Tun Daim Zainuddin to head the controversial Council of Eminent Persons and gave them 100 days to come up with a plan. They usurped the powers of the cabinet and their recommendations were filed away under the Officials Secrets Act. No plan.

5- He divided Harapan by playing the parties against each other. He schemed to do this, and sad to say, it was so good that PH itself broke down and there was a change in government.

6- He drove a wedge between PKR and DAP by cleverly making DAP stalwart Lim Guan Eng finance minister, earning the DAP’s eternal gratitude and grovelling which made them say it was the PM’s prerogative over every questionable action Mahathir took.

7- He encouraged Azmin to rise against Anwar. Secure with DAP support but not wanting Anwar to succeed, he drove a wedge between Anwar and his long-time supporter Datuk Seri Azmin Ali by simply offering him the post of Minister of Economic Affairs - no cabinet post for Anwar though. Simultaneously he took some power off Lim, now desperate for the third coming of Mahathir which would ensure his corruption charge would not be resurrected.

8- His cabinet was out of all proportion to popular representation. Every single MP of his 13 got important posts - Prime Minister, Home Minister, four other full ministers, six deputy ministers and one chief minister (his son). Other chief minister posts went to Bersatu assemblymen for example, Perak and Johor.

9- He was not consultative. He was brutally open about it - prime ministerial prerogative.

10- He made dubious appointments. Again he claimed it was his prerogative. A standout example: An Anwar opponent became MACC chief.

11- He wanted another Malaysian car. He went back to this old nonsense which cost Malaysian car buyers hundreds of billions in extra duties - this time it was to be some sort of electric vehicle.

12- He is too close to cronies. One example - he holds meetings at the Albukhary Foundation where he and his wife are given huge offices. How can he not favour businessman billionaire Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Albukhary?

13- He tried to sell national assets to cronies. His pretext was that Khazanah Nasional was not selling assets to bumiputeras - it had no such mandate. He used pressure to force the entire Khazanah Board to resign.

14- He made bad deals with China. Originally, that RM66 bil East Coast Rail Link project was supposed to be cancelled but miraculously Daim saved it through secret negotiations. Through other undercover deals he “saved” other projects too, projects Malaysia did not need. How brilliant!

15- He has no significant Malay support. His party, which was supposed to bring in the Malay heartland votes was thrashed by Umno and Pas. Bersatu contested only in Peninsular Malaysia, and among Harapan coalition partners contested the most seats here with 52, followed by PKR with 51, DAP with 39 and Amanah with 27. PKR won over 80% of seats contested in the peninsula but 67% overall. DAP won 89% of seats contested. Also remember Tanjong Piai. Enough said.

16- He has only five MPs, including himself. Much of his own party abandoned him and he got sacked from Bersatu, and is now challenging that decision. Still he wants to be PM? How ridiculous! Ask him to go get some numbers first.

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