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GE16: Only a real check-and-balanced coalition Government can save multi-racial Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6, 2026: Bersama co-leader Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad says alliances with other parties “almost always come with compromises”.
Staunch reformist Nik Nazmi said the compromises were political and policy-related and would eventually affect the party’s principles.
“This is one of the reasons so many Malaysians have become cynical about politics in the first place,” he added.
His comment follows a suggestion by Prof Dr Tajuddin Rasdi’s for Bersama to work with influential parties to win seats in elections.
His comment follows a suggestion for Bersama to work with influential parties to win seats in elections.
Tajuddin recommended six ways to prevent a Taliban-like PAS-led Perikatan Nasional (PN)-Umno-led-Barisan Nasional (BN) from taking over the federal government in the next general election (GE16).
Under PN-BN, Malaysia is heading towards a Taliban-like/Islamic State governance, spelling the end of multi-racial governance.
However, No News Is Bad News begs to differ Tajuddin’s views.
For a better check and balance coalition federal government, Malaysians should vote according to priorities to prevent the racial and religious bigots and the BN-Umno pencuri-pencuri from taking over multi-racial Malaysia.
All multi-racial Malaysians who treasure national unity and harmony is to unite and vote according to this priority: Bersama, Muda, PSM and PH, and for East Malaysia, Shafie Apdal’s Warisan (Sabah) and Abang Jo’s PBB (Sarawak).
In that order for a check and balance federal government - anything but the racial and religious bigoted PAS-led PN and Umno-led BN.
No News Is Bad News reproduces below articles on the survival of multi-racial Malaysia:
Political alliances almost always come with compromises, says Nik Nazmi
The Bersama co-leader responds to a suggestion that they work with influential parties to win seats in elections.
Bersama co-leader Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said if the only purpose of politics is to get into the state assembly, Parliament or Cabinet, then he and the party’s co-leader, Rafizi Ramli, had already achieved it.
PETALING JAYA: Bersama co-leader Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad says alliances with other parties “almost always come with compromises”.
His comment follows a suggestion for Bersama to work with influential parties to win seats in elections.
In a post on Threads, Nik Nazmi said these compromises were political and policy-related and would eventually affect the party’s principles.
“This is one of the reasons so many Malaysians have become cynical about politics in the first place.”
The former PKR vice-president was responding to political commentator and FMT columnist Tajuddin Rasdi who yesterday wrote that Wawasan’s win in the Negeri Sembilan polls on Aug 1 served as a lesson for Bersama.
Tajuddin contended that new parties needed to join forces with more established parties.
Wawasan won three of the four seats it contested last Saturday under the Perikatan Nasional logo.
Nik Nazmi then wondered who exactly Tajuddin thought Bersama should work with.
“Bersatu, which actually received fewer votes in Negeri Sembilan than Bersama did in Johor? The newly launched Barisan Nasional-PN alliance, which already looks like a marriage of convenience and may well collapse under the weight of its own contradictions?”
Nik Nazmi said Pakatan Harapan had been “far too slow” in delivering many of the promised institutional and economic reforms.
Nik Nazmi said if the only purpose of politics is to get into the state assembly, Parliament or Cabinet, then he and the party’s co-leader, Rafizi Ramli, had already done that.
He said he and Rafizi did not start Bersama because they wanted another position, but because they wanted to push for reforms and offer an alternative.
“In the end, the most influential partner any political party should seek is not another political party – it is the Malaysian people.”
Do the unthinkable: 6 ways to prevent a BN-PN takeover
For all Malaysians who abhor the conservatism of BN-PN, a go-for-broke situation lies ahead, when all bets are off and every single deal is on the table.
With their decisive victory in Negeri Sembilan, the Malay-dominant combination of Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional probably smell victory at the next general election.
If they next win in Melaka, Umno will probably pull out of the unity government and take a few MPs with them to trigger an early general election. It is no longer a matter of if, but when: as early as the year’s end, or by the new year.
Pakatan Harapan has no way to win unless 1.5 million Malaysians living overseas are able to vote easily and effortlessly, or if they can come home to save their country from the certain conservatism that will kill the Malaysia we deserve.
Even with the overseas vote, PH will still have an uphill battle as Malays have made their choice very clear: apparently, they do not care about corruption, economic development or justice, as long as the BN-PN notion of a safe “Payung Melayu” can be realised and the evil DAP is decimated forever.
Thus, PH is left with nothing else but the unthinkable. It still has a few months or half a year left in which to act. The gloves must come off. This will be a do-or-die situation for all Malaysians who abhor the conservative narrative of BN-PN.
PH needs to make “unthinkable” moves that will never be matched by BN-PN for reasons of greed. I will explain and elucidate.
A new coalition
First, PH needs to form a loose coalition with all progressive-minded parties like Muda, Bersama, Parti Sosialis Malaysia and others who do not use race or religion as their main ideological platform. PH must also give a few seats to independent candidates that are honest and earnest enough to stand in the election.
This will set the tone for Malaysians that PH is serious about being progressive and moving forward, leaving Umno to live with PAS and PN.
For Malays, the narrative is total Malay-Muslim dominance while PH Plus will be for a progressive Malaysia aligned with the ideals of both Sabah and Sarawak people.
Recognise the UEC
Second, PH must recognise the Unified Examination Certificate of Chinese-medium schools, as Sabah and Sarawak have done. Umno can scream disloyalty to the constitution, but Sabah and Sarawak as partners in Malaysia have shown the way.
PH should also increase the racial quota in universities to 45:55 and just do it.
Once upon a time, Dr Mahathir Mohamad made an overnight change for the teaching of maths and science to English, after the Malays deserted Umno for Reformasi. He had the courage and shrewdness to offer the juiciest prize to the non-Malays and progressive Malays. PH should meditate seriously on what Mahathir did.
Third, PH should subsidise 20% of private college fees for young Malaysians from M40 and B40 families. Every B40 graduate from public and private institutions should be given a monthly RM400 allowance for a year to look for jobs, with payments ending two months after they secure decent employment.
BN-PN will never do these things as many of their politicians may have other ideas for the money to be spent. It is better for PH to empty the country’s coffers for the good of the people than to leave a chest full of money for other parties to selfishly use for themselves and their families if or when they take over the reins.
Non-Islamic religions
Fourth, PH should establish special departments at the federal and state levels for other religions, headed by an executive councillor or a minister in the prime minister’s office, to deal with the development of houses of worship and their legal registration.
The proceeds from the sin tax on alcohol, gambling and the pig farming industry should be allocated to these departments.
BN-PN under their Malay supremacist narrative will never match this move. Yet again, Sabah and Sarawak have such departments and allocations, although not from the taxes I mention.
An East Malaysian as PM
Fifth, PH Plus must forge an alliance with the dominant Sabah and Sarawak parties and offer them a free path to electoral victory with no challenge from PH at all. Again, BN-PN will not match this move because they are hungry for the states’ wealth for God knows what purpose.
This alliance can further be sweetened by offering to pay whatever is due from oil revenue as a result of past injustices. Again, BN-PN will never agree to this as they want that wealth accumulated in Tanah Melayu, I assume.
Sixth – and this would be the coup de grace – PH can offer the prime ministership to a candidate from Sabah and Sarawak if the coalition wins the day.
Anwar Ibrahim should be okay with this offer, since I am confident that Anwar has no wealth to protect, and neither do any of his children, unlike some other prime ministers before him.
If so, Malaysians will finally get to see a Sabahan or Sarawakian PM before they leave this world.
The end is near for good Malaysians and PH. This is a go-for-broke situation. All bets are off and every single deal is on the table, especially the “unthinkable” ones. There is no other way to save Malaysia from the return of BN’s culture of wealth and the conservatism of PN.
BN-PN will never match these moves.
I think Malaysians will have many nice and exciting things to look forward to and thus come out to vote. In the days ahead, we will see either the end of the line for a progressive Malaysia, or the beginning of a wonderful one for us all.
The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of FMT.
PH must face political realities, acknowledge shortcomings, say analysts
Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri says the coalition has a tendency not to look into the mirror each time it is defeated at the polls.
Analyst Syaza Shukri said PH needs to listen once again to its grassroots, citing a ‘gap between the parties and supporters’.
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) must learn to come to terms with the political realities and acknowledge its shortcomings, an analyst says following the coalition’s loss in the Negeri Sembilan election.
Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri.
Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri of Global Asia Consulting said PH had a tendency not to look into the mirror whenever it was defeated at the polls.
PH blamed its defeat on Saturday on the exploitation of identity politics by its rivals.
But Zaharuddin said such explanations had been recycled so often that they had “lost credibility”, adding that identity politics was not a new phenomenon.
“It has been part and parcel of Malaysia’s political landscape for decades.
“If PH fails to tailor its strategy to such a reality despite being in power for years, then the fault doesn’t lie with the voters but with the inability of the coalition’s leaders to understand the landscape,’ he told FMT.
PH election director Amirudin Shari said there had been much racial rhetoric leading up to the polls, which had led to unease among Malays and non-Malays.
However, Zaharuddin said PH seemed to be trapped in a bubble where it believed it could control narratives and win over voters through social media, despite the fact that elections were won on the ground and “not in the comment section”.
“Voters these days take into account the cost of living, job opportunities, economic stability and the government’s ability to resolve everyday problems. They don’t look at those who are busy playing the victim,” he said.
He said PH was now at a critical juncture: it could continue searching for scapegoats each time it lost an election, “or choose a more arduous but honest path”.
“Politics does not punish parties that lose, but those that fail to learn from defeat,” he said.
Syaza Shukri.
Syaza Shukri of International Islamic University Malaysia said while PH had trouble countering the racial narratives played up by the Barisan Nasional (BN)-Perikatan Nasional alliance, it should acknowledge its shortcomings.
She said PH’s machinery had yet to match that of BN despite the coalition administering the state for the last eight years.
She also said PH needed to listen once again to its grassroots, adding that there was a “gap between the parties and supporters”.
“Supporters want the reform agenda to be continued, but they do not feel that attention is being paid to such aspirations,” she said.
Syaza also said that PH’s campaign, which focused heavily on the state government’s achievements, was ineffective as the public felt they had not benefited from these.
BN keeping solo option open in Melaka, says analyst
Mazlan Ali says Melaka BN chief Ab Rauf Yusoh's statement that the coalition is open to cooperating with any party suggests that it is not under pressure to work with PN.
Barisan Nasional currently holds 20 of the 28 seats in the Melaka state legislative assembly.
PETALING JAYA: The statement by Melaka Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman Ab Rauf Yusoh that political negotiations do not necessarily end in agreement signals that the coalition is prepared to contest the Melaka state election on its own, says an analyst.
Mazlan Ali said the stance also suggested that BN was not under pressure despite speculation of cooperation with Perikatan Nasional (PN), as voiced by BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi following the Negeri Sembilan election results on Saturday.
The BN-PN alliance won 25 of the 36 state seats in Negeri Sembilan, securing a two-thirds majority to govern the state for the next five years.
Mazlan, of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, said Rauf’s remarks reflected Umno’s confidence that it still had sufficient strength to retain Melaka without relying on other parties.
Mazlan Ali.
“If they can work with PN in Negeri Sembilan and Johor, the same possibility is open in Melaka.
“However, that does not necessarily mean the negotiations will end in an agreement… this means BN can also contest on its own,” he told FMT.
Mazlan was commenting on Rauf’s statement on Sunday that BN was open to working with any party in the Melaka election under the BN Plus formula.
Rauf, the Melaka chief minister and state Umno chief, said the door to negotiations was wide open, but discussions would not necessarily lead to an agreement as they would depend on the strengths of each party.
The Melaka state election must be held by the end of this year.
Azmi Hassan.
Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara said Rauf’s remarks were likely directed more at PN than Pakatan Harapan (PH).
He said that as the party leading the Melaka government, Umno was in a stronger position to set the terms of negotiations, including on seat allocations.
“This is a message to PN that it cannot demand seats currently held by Umno in Melaka, unlike the formula used in Negeri Sembilan.
“If PN does not agree, BN still has the option of negotiating with PH,” he said.
The Melaka state assembly comprises 20 BN assemblymen, 17 of whom are from Umno. The opposition has five assemblymen from PH and three from PN.
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