YOURSAY | ‘Shafie may not bring enough to the table as PM’

It’s surely long overdue in the overall interests of the Federation of Malaysia to have a deputy prime minister either from Sarawak or Sabah.

Such a move can be misconstrued that our Malay elites, in general, are quite entrenched with a sense of entitlement and exclusivity. Especially given the widening wealth gap within the community.Shafie taking up the PM post will be a disaster. It's less to do with him and more to do with reality on the ground.

His party will grumble that they are not getting cabinet seats, the bigger parties will be arguing they bring more to the coalition and should get more. More importantly, he will have the time and opportunity to develop his own support base to carry him further.Shafie is intended to be a candidate to marshal support to win a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

But for now, we need to take over Putrajaya as the immediate objective, and we are confident that Shafie will have competent cabinet members to assist him.This doesn't look like just a risky gamble; it is nothing more than opportunistic politics and akin to delivering the lamb at the sacrificial altar.

So, besides being whimsical and illogical, there is only one word one can think of if Shafie is chosen as the PM - he will be a puppet PM, and there will be some who would want that.It is not the person per se that is the big problem - it is because Shafie is a leader of a regional party and now elevated as a national leader.

If PKR, Amanah, DAP, Warisan, GPS and Mahathir’s Bersatu block support Shafie, he will have a comfortable majority of 130 plus MPs to govern peacefully.

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