PKR and PH collapsing under Anwar’s politics of nepotism and patronage ala Umno-governance

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PKR and PH collapsing under Anwar’s politics of nepotism and patronage ala Umno-governance

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14, 2025: PKR and Pakatan Harapan (PH) are losing voters daily due to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unwavering support for the racial and religious bigoted Dr Akmal “Ham/I Am Malay First unpatriotic” Saleh Umno.

To make political matters even worse for PKR and PH, he has engineered a political contest between incumbent deputy president Rafizi Ramli and his daughter Nurul Izzah whom he appointed as vice-president.

It has become crystal clear that Anwar wants to rid his party of reformists in his leadership.

This is the second time Anwar is attempting to have Rafizi and his young Reformasi (Reformation) team dumped from his party leadership.

In his first attempt in 2022, Anwar failed miserably and was humbled after his support for Saifuddin Nasution fell flat - Saifuddin lost to Rafi by a more than 16,000-vote landslide.

Anwar is fixated because the “Abim and Umno DNA” in him is too overwhelming for him to discard politics of nepotism and patronage ala Umno.

Reformists are a stumbling block or thorns to his political agenda.

 

The same political “animal” under Anwar Ibrahim’s politics of nepotism and patronage ala Umno

This was what was found posted on Facebook today:

C.k. Foo

ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS MADANI GOVT LED BY THE PKR PRESIDENT ANWAR IBRAHIM, WHO PERSISTENTLY REFUSED TO FULFILL HIS ELECTION PROMISE OF REFORMS …. WILL BE A ONE-TERM GOVERNMENT.

… AND PKR DEPUTY PRESIDENT RAFIZI RAMLI IS CORRECT IN HIS PREDICTION … GIVEN THE ON-GOING SENTIMENTS OF FORMER PAKATAN HARAPAN VOTERS, PARTICULARLY THE NON-MALAY VOTERS WHO HAD VOTED FOR PKR.

FACT:

1. The current trend shows a stagnant Malay support and declining non-Malay support. This mean s PKR and Pakatan Harapan are unlikely to win the next general election if current trends persist.

2. There islow confidence among voters in the government’s efforts against corruption.

3. It was Najib regime’s overconfidence that led to the downfall of the incompetent BN Govt led by Najib Abdul Razak during GE14.

NOTE:

The blame must fall squarely on the hopeless leadership of the current PM for reneging his election promises… and for suckering to UMNO warlords and wanting to be the champion among the Middle East Rab leaders instead of focusing our social and economic problems at home.

READ HERE: in MALAYSIAKINI

https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/742959

12 May 2025

Incumbent PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli warned politicians wanting to gain power and positions by winning in the upcoming PKR polls should beware.

He said, contrary to his rivals’ alleged aspirations, PKR and Pakatan Harapan are not currently in a position to win the next general election.

He cited data that shows insufficient levels of Malay support for the coalition, while support among Chinese and Indian voters is crashing dramatically.

For Malay voters, support for Harapan is at 27 percent as of April this year, and has been slowly increasing from 20 percent in Aug 2020.

Meanwhile, combined Malay support for BN and Perikatan Nasional has dipped to 48 percent. A breakdown of how each coalition was performing was not shown.

More starkly, the rate of undecided Malay voters is now at 26 percent.

1. WITHOUT 35% MALAY SUPPORT FOR BUST

He said if PKR wants to maintain 30 to 40 seats in Parliament, it needs Malay support to be at least 35 percent.

“We have two more years, if for every month it (the Malay support) is stagnant or just goes up by one percent per month, I am very worried.

“When we don’t hit 35 percent (Malay support), no matter what we do, hugging, bringing peace to the grassroots, we won’t win the next general election,” he said at a ceramah in Seremban last night.

Rafizi did not show a sample size, margin of error, or methodology when presenting the data.

However, his past work in Invoke had usually used a representative sampling method, albeit with a much larger sample size.

The way he presented the data also suggests he is considering a scenario in which Harapan contests the next general election without partnering with BN.

2. CHINESE AND INDIAN SUPPORT CRASHING

Meanwhile, on top of insufficient Malay support, Rafizi said Harapan’s vote bank among non-Malays is also fast eroding.

Chinese and Indian support crashed from around 56 and 50 percent respectively in Aug 2024, to 31 percent in April.

Rafizi said this is a trend that should worry not just PKR, but also its partner DAP.

“Some people will say ‘don’t worry lah. Chinese voters won’t vote for PN because PN has PAS’.

“Well, what do you think the Chinese voters will do then? They will do the same as we suffered in (the) Sungai Bakap (by-election), they won’t go out to vote,” he warned.

He said in the past several by-elections, Chinese voter turnout has been less than 40 percent while Malay voter turnout has been at least 70 percent.

If this trend continues at the general election, Rafizi said all the mixed constituencies that PKR contests in will become Malay-majority seats, which, with low Malay support, will spell disaster.

He warned that Indian voters are also becoming increasingly angry towards the government.

Confidence in economy, but not anti-graft efforts

In explaining voter sentiment, Rafizi said the incremental increase in Malay support is in tandem with overall voter satisfaction towards the government’s handling of the economy, which is now at 31 percent, while dissatisfaction is slowly decreasing to 47 percent.

The economy minister is hopeful that voter confidence in the economy can reach 40 percent by the next general election.

However, this is being weighed down by a different factor, confidence that the government can handle corruption.

The charts he shared showed that dissatisfaction with the government over graft was above 20 percent starting August 2024, and surpassed 30 percent starting January this year.

Confidence in PKR’s ability to address corruption was especially low among Gen Z voters aged 18 to 27 at just eight percent, and millennials aged 28 to 44.

Overall, Rafizi said, PKR was behind PAS in voter confidence on anti-graft efforts.

3. LEARNING FROM NAJIB’s FALL

The incumbent deputy president said he is aware that some will criticise him for revealing such data publicly.

However, he said this is necessary.

“This is why parties in power lose, because all problems are hidden away.

“Everyone wants to show to (Prime Minister) Anwar Ibrahim, ‘Datuk Seri, you are great, everything is good’,” he said.

He warned that before the 2018 general election, Najib Abdul Razak received 18 reports, of which 17 said he would win.

However, Najib led BN to its first-ever general election defeat that year.

Rafizi is defending his PKR deputy presidency in a straight fight against Nurul Izzah Anwar. Voting in the PKR election is on May 23.

He claimed that the party has been infiltrated by a wave of newcomers who are not interested in the party’s reformist agenda, but are instead motivated by the potential to gain power and positions now that the party is in government.

This is on top of alleged irregularities with the party’s e-voting system, which he said had resulted in the phenomenon where team leaders are defeated in divisional polls while the rest of the team wins.

This has mostly affected those aligned with Rafizi.

Who stays when power is lost?

With his team’s fate in the central elections on the line, Rafizi hence said there was a need for the party to make careful considerations for the future.

“We must plan the party’s leadership with the worst-case scenario in mind, which is if we lose in the next general election, what then?

“If we are forced to contest in a situation where (support) is stagnant, if we can’t get votes, what then?

“We need to consider, in such a situation, what kind of leadership do we want in the party?

“Because when we are in power, we have many friends, but when we lose power, those left are friends who entered the party not because of position, titles, not for money or power,” he said.