Hamzah Zainudin has failed the Agong test to ensure political stability for the next five years to allow the country to unite a very polarised plural nation, and to reset and return to the original nation-building principles to become a first-rate world-class nation

The Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Hamzah Zainudin, has failed the Agong test to ensure political stability for the next five years to allow the country to unite a very polarised plural nation, and to reset and return to the original nation-building principles to become a first-rate world-class nation.

The minimum that Hamzah could do was to give an undertaking that Anwar Ibrahim would be the last Prime Minister the 16th Yang di Pertuan Agong will swear in before the end of his five-year reign next January, as the 16th Yang di Pertuan Agong will go down in history of having to work with four Prime Ministers during his reign.

Apart from the 16th Yang di Pertuan Agong, no other Yang di Pertuan Agong had to work with more than two Prime Ministers.

Will there be a fifth Prime Minister the 16th Yang di Pertuan Agong has to work with before the end of his five-year reign next January?

The maximum that Hamzah could have done was to give an assurance in Parliament that there would be no change of Prime Minister for the next five years, and that Anwar Ibrahim will be able to serve the full five-year term as the 10th Prime Minister.

But Hamzah could not pass the minimum or the maximum test of the Yang di Pertuan Agong and could only give an amorphous statement that the Opposition would play the check and balance role in Parliament.

But this understandable, as Hamzah is not the real power in Perikatan Nasional, who is the Bersatu President, Muhyiddin Yassin, and the PAS President, Hadi Awang.

For the first time in the history of Malaysia, there is a lame-duck Opposition Leader in Parliament.

Hamzah should refer to Muhyiddin and Hadi to get their consent so that he could pass the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s test, whether at the the minimum or maximum level.

The Yang di Pertuan Agong had called on all Malaysians to “open their hearts” to the results of last November’s 15th general election — to form a stable government to guarantee political stability and generate economic growth, working on issues such as the cost of living, including subsidies for the people, and anti-corruption?

What is Perikatan Nasional’s response reflecting the position of both Muhyiddin and Hadi?