Will the Perikatan Nasional MPs vote in support, abstain, or oppose the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?
Will the Perikatan Nasional (PN) MPs vote to support, abstain, or oppose the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia?
It will be asking the PN MPs to do a very tall job to put nation before party, coalition, and self to support the vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister in Parliament on Tuesday to ensure that there is clean, transparent, responsible, and stable political eco-system in Malaysia, which is the PN manifesto for the 15th General Election.
But the person who unconstitutionally and illegally suspended Parliament in fear of a vote of confidence motion by using the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic and who tried to save his “backdoor” premiership with a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is the last person to talk about Anwar lacking confidence to gain a majority in Parliament on a vote of confidence motion.
At least, the first thing that Anwar is doing as the 10th Prime Minister is to seek a vote of confidence in Parliament, emulating the third Prime Minister, Hussein Onn, in 1976.
In contrast, Muhyiddin did everything possible to avoid a vote of confidence vote in Parliament, to the extent of illegally and unconstitutionally suspending Parliament. The first “backdoor” Prime Minister would have continued to suspend Parliament in August 2021 if not stopped by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and the Conference of Rulers, and he chose to resign instead of having to face a vote of confidence in Parliament.
Where was the MP when Parliament was illegally and unconstitutionally suspended in 2021 but who now claimed that Malaysia is heading towards a dictatorship if there is a vote of confidence on the Prime Minister in Parliament on Tuesday? The MP concerned was then enjoying the perks and privileges of a Deputy Minister to bother about any vote of confidence in Parliament!
The least to expect of a respectable and honourable political coalition is to abstain in the vote-of-confidence in Parliament, but this is an equally tall order.
The strength of the opposition of Perikatan Nasional MPs to the vote of confidence motion in Parliament will be a reflection of the tenacity of efforts to create a Sheraton Move 2 scenario to topple the legitimate Anwar Ibrahim government to bring about a third “backdoor” government in Malaysian history.
There is no doubt that the PN leaders are doing their utmost to bring about a Sheraton Move 2, and they are talking in terms of months instead of years.
That is why they are so dead set against the unity government and the second MOA which could not only usher in a period of political stability but assure a five-year tenure for Anwar as Prime Minister of Malaysia, but be the basis for Malaysia to stop its national decline and to become a world-class nation again before Malaysia’s Centennial.