The recent by-elections in Cameron Highlands and Semenyih clearly indicate that the race-religion agenda still dominates the political discourse in this new Malaysia, and it is clear that Malay votes are a great concern to some sectors of this new government, since reports from GE14 show that less that 30% Malays voted for Pakatan Harapan. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 25, 2019.
IN a recent speech at UTM Skudai, Johor, former finance minister Daim Zainuddin spoke about the need for a national agenda and not a Malay agenda. When I read his full speech, I couldn’t help but agree with much of what he said about the need for a national agenda. According to him, the “national agenda is not a Malay agenda or a non-Malay agenda.
Halfway reading through his text, the cynical side of me started thinking: “why wasn’t this said when he was in a position of influence in Umno?” Ironically in Malaysia, it would seem that people who were in positions of power and influence speak more sense when they are no longer in those positions. Suddenly, there seems to be a newfound freedom to critique others when it would have made more sense to have done so when they had the world in their hands.
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