If 1MDB PM Najib’s BN is toppled in GE14, Muhyiddin to be PM first, then Anwar?

If 1MDB PM Najib’s BN is toppled in GE14, Muhyiddin to be PM first, then Anwar?

No News Is Bad News is not doing any writing or commentary in this blog posting.

We are re-posting two articles, both by pro-1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) media propaganda tools.

One story, more professionally presented, is by the mainstream vernacular print media Sin Chew Jit Poh’s mysinchew, and the other obviously by a pro-Umno-BN blogger.

Nevertheless, it makes interesting reading as both articles are on the same subject matter.

Just because they are articles by pro-BN sources, it does not necessary mean they are not worth reading. To be fair, give them some space to air their views or speculations.

Read the two stories and form your own opinion:

"THE ‘FAB FOUR’ WHO WILL INHERIT NAJIB’S THRONE: ZAHID OR HISHAM – BIG FIGHT ERUPTS IN UMNO WHILE IN THE OPPOSITION, IT’S ALMOST SETTLED – MUHYIDDIN FIRST, THEN ANWAR

Politics | October 1, 2016 by | 0 Comments


PM Najib is on a working visit to Germany, and back home, guessing game is rife on who will the country’s next PM be.

Former PM Mahathir said if the opposition were to win the next general elections, PPBM president Muhyiddin Yassin would become the PM. Himself the party’s chairman, it is within everyone’s expectation for Mahathir to name his own man for the top post.

Pakatan Harapan does not quite buy that. PKR, DAP and Amanah have already reached an accord long ago to accept Anwar Ibrahim as their only choice for premiership. In the meantime, there are other discordant voices within the opposition camp. PAS, for instance, has never agreed to Anwar as the PM. Even before the collapse of Pakatan Rakyat, PAS had expressed its preference for Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to assume the post.

While the opposition has not been able to achieve some kind of consensus on the PM candidacy, the PM successor on the BN side is equally drawing attention.

A recent survey conducted by Institut Darul Ehsan (IDE) among the voters in Selangor shows that 32% of respondents support defense minister Hishammuddin Hussein to take over the PM post, pulling ahead of DPM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi with 31% and youth and sports minister Khairy Jamaluddin with 28%.

Anyone with some basic understanding of the modus operandi of Malaysian politics can tell that such surveys will not serve any purpose at all, because we are practicing the Westminster-style parliamentary democracy whereby the choice of PM is determined by the party that wins the election, not by popular votes.

Whether a political leader can eventually become the PM depends solely on his support rate within his party, not public consensus.

Sure enough the next PM guessing game has gained steam, but instead of spending so much time talking about the choice of PM, why not devote a little time to explore in a more profound way the power and role of the PM?

Such a discussion will not entail any particular person but only the PM position.

To put it more forthright, while it is important who will eventually helm the country in the future, a more crucial question is that we need to build up an effective checks and balances system to ensure proper operation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches for the sake of the country’s long-term development.

Under the country’s existing political system, the winning party not only takes control of the executive branch, but also the legislative branch as well. As such, total independence of the three branches of government and the checks and balances operation are difficult to be put into effective implementation, resulting in over-concentration of power in the hands of the executive branch, or to be more precise, the prime minister.

Although there have been talks earlier on that the attorney-general is the most powerful person in this country. Not true! After Abdul Gani Patail was stripped of his AG post, it has become very clear that the PM is the single most powerful man here.

Power needs to be checked and restricted because history tells us human beings are prone to “abusing” things, including power.

To check the power of the PM is a prerequisite in democratic operation, and this is not targeting any specific individual or political party. Perhaps capping the PM’s tenure is a good point for contemplation.

– Mysinchew"

"MUHYIDDIN FIRST, ANWAR NEXT? THE OPPOSITION WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO CON MALAYS OF THEIR VOTES – NAJIB CAMP THROWS COLD WATER ON TOUTED PM-COMBO

Politics | October 1, 2016 by | 0 Comments


With all of the Opposition”s recent chatter over whom their candidate is, one cannot help but to see how desperate they have come of late. Pakatan Harapan is hoping that by there mentioning the name of their jailed de-facto Opposition leader’s name (Datuk Anwar Ibrahim) that it would carry favor within the Malay community. In doing this, it further proves how out of touch Pakatan Harapan is with the rakyat in general and more specifically with Malays.

Does Pakatan Harapan think that the Malays do not know that Anwar Ibrahim is in Sungai Buloh prison and that he is still associated with the Opposition? Malaysians are well aware of where he is and why is there. His (Anwar Ibrahim’s) being the Opposition leader in any capacity did not help bring in votes in Sarawak, Sungai Besar nor Kuala Kangsar.

When the collective votes were tallied, it was obvious that the Lim’s (Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng) Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali, former deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, former Kedah Menteri Besar Mukhriz Mahathir, former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim were all ineffective in the efforts from near and far to bring in the votes needed to secure any semblance of a win Pakatan Harapan.

In looking at the disarray which has become synonymous of Pakatan Harapan’s existence, a line from a nursery rhyme in the West sums up how dysfunctional they (Pakatan Harapan) have become:

All the kings’ horse and all the kings’ men could not put Humpty Dumpty (Pakatan Harapan) together again.

Even prior to the elections mentioned the Bersih 4 fiasco proved that a large segment of Malaysians did not support what the DAP led Pakatan Harapan stood for. If nothing else, the lack of the Malay presence proved that Malays see behind the tricks of the Opposition and by large choose to be supportive of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the government. That is why the rakyat through their votes in East and Peninsular Malaysia gave Team Barisan Nasional the mandate to continue to lead.

The Opposition knows that they do not have a chance of pulling out any type of win in GE14 without the Malay vote so early on they hoped that bringing up the GST and 1MDB would bring out votes for their (Opposition) cause. Seeing how that did not produce results they attempted to recycle Tun Mahathir thinking that he would be enough to create some sort of tsunami of Malay votes.

Again, their effort met with colossal failure as Tun Mahathir was literally a non factor.

Now, they are trying to recycle the name of Anwar Ibrahim trying to create some interest in the Malay community. The Opposition even mentions his name and the job of Prime Minister in the same breadth to get Malays to bite on an invisible apple.

The Anwar card seems to be their (Pakatan Harapan’s) default tactic when they have nothing else and no one else to fall back on. However, Malaysians and Malays in particular cannot be easily fooled; they have become well aware of how the Opposition will do and say anything in their desperation to con Malays for their votes! - https://themalaysianobserverblog.wordpress.com/"