Pakatan Harapan can win outright and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister, if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday

Open Letter to the Voters of Malaysia

Pakatan Harapan can win outright, and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday

I have tried my very best to impress on Malaysian voters in the 15GE to focus on one issue: how to regain Malaysia’s original dream to be a “beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” as Malaysia has fallen to a second-rate mediocre nation after six decades, and we do not want to be a third-rate failed, divided, rogue, and kleptocratic state by Malaysia’s Centennial.

But the toxic politics of race and religion, and the toxic politics of lies, falsehood and fake news were fully activated in the 15GE to distract Malaysians from this greatest issue in Malaysia ⁠— how plural Malaysia is not to fail in nation-building and end up as a third-rate failed and divided state after 100 years.

I have been to eight states and clocked some 15,000 kilometres in the last two weeks of election campaign, and everywhere I went, I do not come across any anti-Malay, anti-Chinese, anti-Indian, anti-Dayak, anti-Kadazan or anti-Muslim, anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu, anti-Christianity sentiment on the ground, confirming that Malaysians are the most tolerant and sensitive of people.

But during elections, there are political parties and personalities who want Malaysians to believe that the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Dayaks, Kadazans or Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity are under threat and face extinction and there were lies, falsehoods and fake news galore to sustain this fake impression.

Why is this so? Who want to threaten the Malays, Chinese, Indians, Dayaks, Kadazans or wipe out Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity in Malaysia?

I always believe that Malaysia can be a great plural nation because Malaysia stand at the confluence of four great civilisations ⁠— Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western ⁠— and if we can leverage on the values and virtues of these four great civilisations, Malaysia can be a great nation, better than the countries in the Middle East, China, India, and Indonesia.

What is stopping Malaysia from benefiting from our strategic position as the confluence of four great civilisations?

The guilty parties are the lies, falsehood, and fake news which the age of information and the social media have given wings to misinform and misguide the public.

Can Malaysia be liberated from these lies, falsehoods, and fake news?

Pakatan Harapan can win outright and Anwar Ibrahim become the 10th Prime Minister, if Malaysians go all out to vote and achieve over 80 per cent voter turnout on Saturday.

This is the question that will be decided in Malaysia on November 19, 2022.