COMMENT | Harapan’s fatal attraction to Muda

“Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

- Mary McLeod Bethune

COMMENT | Desperate times and situations lead to desperate measures. Reeling from a defeat in Malacca, Pakatan Harapan is taking all the wrong steps to make itself relevant again, ignoring the fact that it won the last general election.

Harapan’s tenuous waltz and courtship with Muda for state seats in Johor, reminiscent of its previous fatal attraction to Bersatu in 2018, looks all set to end in disaster as the coalition shoots itself in the foot by assigning seats it could win to young upstart, Muda.

Recall that in GE14, Harapan made a horrendous mistake, giving Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s fledgling Bersatu 52 Parliament seats to contest in Peninsular Malaysia. Bersatu won just 13 for a win rate of only 25 percent while Amanah won 50 percent, PKR won nearly 90 percent, DAP over 90 percent of seats contested in Peninsular Malaysia.

Nevertheless, Mahathir became PM by prior agreement, supposedly interim, He thwarted reformation dreams by effectively handing over power to renegade factions and eventually power went to Umno.

So momentous was the turn of events that the tide now seems to have...