“We have won 13 times and lost once. They lost 13 times and won once. The difference between us and them is that after we lost, many ran away.”
DAP and PAS won 42 and 18 parliamentary seats respectively in GE14 with none crossing over to any other party. PKR succeeded in winning 48 seats but 13 of its MPs have switched to PPBM or become Perikatan Nasional friendly. In not so many words, he denounced party hopping, something that is tearing the nation’s political stability apart. By highlighting arch rivals DAP and PKR as examples, he has shown his political maturity.
Instead of blindly defending his father’s policy for racial and political reasons, Nazir was brutally honest in saying many of the principles in the NEP no longer work and have instead led to dysfunctional politics and growing divisions among Malaysia’s communities. He said studies showed that elected representatives were increasingly losing touch with voters, and that they cannot rely on Parliament or on political parties, which basically have very short-term agendas.
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