In claiming innocence, Muhyiddin set for ‘Bossku’ role as lightning rod for anti-govt dissent

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Like Najib before, Muhyiddin is seeking to propel his party towards electoral gains, and even wrest power despite facing graft charges. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KUALA LUMPUR – Shortly after Najib Razak’s fall from grace in 2018 as Umno – weighed down by the shadow of the– lost power for the first time in Malaysia’s six-decade history, the graft-tainted former premier of aristocratic breeding had a complete makeover.

Muhyiddin’s two dates in court last Friday and on Monday bookended his Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia’s annual congress over the weekend. His offer at the meeting to resign was twice refused by the party’s top leadership council, and then delegates at the general assembly amid chants of “Abah tabah “.

“’Bossku’ was a well-crafted and calculated ground campaign to win hearts and minds by turning Najib into a man on the street who was suffering like everyone else, but at the same time offered populist policy solutions,” BowerGroupAsia political analyst Adib Zalkapli told The Straits Times. That loss gave Malay-Muslim MPs in PH – including Muhyiddin – cold feet, which precipitated the so-called Sheraton Move of February 2020.

As graft charges piled up against PN figures in the past three weeks, coalition leaders, including Muhyiddin and Parti Islam seMalaysia president Hadi Awang, have this month begun to talk openly about a change of government.

 

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