Muhyiddin’s most patriotic duty is to abstain from the vote of confidence in Parliament as his opposition to the motion would mean he subordinates the country’s stability and future to his own personal and selfish zeal to become a “backdoor” Prime Minister again

Muhyiddin Yassin’s most patriotic duty is to abstain from the vote of confidence in Parliament as his opposition to the motion would mean that he subordinates the country’s stability and future to his own personal and selfish zeal to become a “backdoor” Prime Minister again.

I think I have the qualifications to tell Muhyiddin a thing or two how to be a responsible Opposition Leader having served as the longest Opposition Leader in the country — even in the darkest days of parliamentary democracy in the country.

I remember the first vote of confidence in the history of Malaysian Parliament in 1976, after the second Prime Minster Tun Razak died and Hussein Onn became the third Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The DAP MPs abstained and did not oppose the vote of confidence in Hussein Onn as the third Prime Minister, but in my speech on the motion, I spoke of how Malaysia could be a united, progressive, purposive, and prosperous nation.

I spoke of the growing discontent among the Malay poor that the fruits of development were enjoyed by the owners of privilege, properly, and instruments of production and the growing frustration among non-Malays who were more and more convinced that they did not have a future in Malaysia with large numbers of non-Malay professionals who had left or were preparing to emigrate overseas; the decline in moral authority of the government because of rampant corruption in high political places, whether at the Federal or State government levels, and increasing deception and dishonesty in public life.

I gave four proposals to solve the ills of the nation, namely:

1. Re-define the class relations in Malaysia, so that the government ceased to protect and promote vested interests or privilege and the possessing class but to abolish and end exploitation and poverty;
2. To regain the confidence of all races that they and their children had an assured future in this country;
3. To restore the moral authority of government by stamping out corruption and eliminating dishonesty in public life; and
4. To reinstate public confidence and trust in the efficacy and meaning of democratic processes and rights.

The vote of confidence in Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minster of Malaysia will be the second vote of confidence in the history of Malaysian Parliament.

Let Muhyiddin stand up in Parliament on the motion of confidence to state what are his proposals to resolve the paramount questions of the country: the unity of Malaysians and how Malaysia could end the decline of the nation from a first-rate world-class nation to a second-rate mediocre country, in danger of becoming a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial?

If Muhyiddin opposes the vote of confidence in Parliament, it will mean that he is not prepared to subordinate his selfish interest to be “backdoor” Prime Minister again and that he will do his utmost to topple Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th Prime Minister through the creation of a Sheraton Move.2 political conspiracy.