BUBBLE OF COLLUSION BURSTS OPEN - ALL EYES ON HOW LOW ANWAR REGIME WILLING TO SINK OVER BERSATU ROGUE MPs
Written by Stan Lee, PoliticsNow!
KUALA LUMPUR (politicsnowmy.blogspot.com) - After the recent slap conclusively delivered by the High Court, 'rogue' MP Azizi Abu Naim is now relying on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to save him from political oblivion.
And judging by snail's pace at which Parliament speaker Johari Abdul, a senior member in Anwar's PKR party, is taking to decide on whether Azizi's seat in the federal house is vacant or not, it looks like Azizi's chances of survival are the still alive, whether he deserves it or not.
Collusion, conspiracy, crooked politics or not - even a seat vacancy in the Selangor state assembly is taking way longer than usual to be decided. Although Selangor is far away from Kelantan, where Azizi's state assembly seat was recently confirmed vacant by the court, the coincidences have spurred accusations of political interference against Anwar as the Selangor speaker hails from the DAP party, a key component in Anwar's unity government.
“I leave it to Allah, leave it to fate. I am confident that the Parliament speaker will decide based on the Constitution,” Azizi told the media a day ago.
“I will ask the party leadership of Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional to allow me to contest."
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
Azizi lost his membership in the Bersatu opposition party led by ex-premier Muhyiddin Yassin after trying to exploit a loophole in Malaysia's Anti-Hopping law, which allowed him to indirectly switch political allegiance to Anwar's government, while at the same time declaring he still 'loved' his own Bersatu party and would be loyal to it.
And the 'reward' for such a twisted and conflicted stance? Azizi, who was the elected representative of the Gua Musang federal Parliament seat and the Nenggiri, Kelantan state seat, received millions of ringgit in constituency allocations that had been withheld by the Anwar regime in a controversial way that drew accusations of being aimed at luring and poaching support from weak MPs in the opposition, such as Azizi and six other of his Bersatu colleagues.
However, as the saying goes - one can't have it both ways. And Azizi learnt this the hard way when the courts slammed the door on his appeal - confirming the Nenggiri seat had been vacated after he failed to reiterate loyalty to Bersatu and withdrawing his declaration of support for the Anwar regime.
POLITICAL OPPORTUNIST REVEALED?
Lau Weng San, former DAP rep, and current speaker of Selangor state assembly
The chances of Azizi winning back Nenggiri on August 17, when the by-election will be balloted, are almost zero and perhaps Azizi knows this. Fearing the backlash and anger of the mainly Malay voters there, he has rushed to voluntarily 'surrender' the seat to the Anwar regime to contest.
"I do not mind 'giving' the seat to Barisan Nasional orUmno or any other party to contest," said Azizi, referring to another key component party in Anwar's ruling regime.
But why not 'give' the seat back to Bersatu, the party that he had all this while insisted he 'loved' and was loyal to - or even to some other ally party in the opposition, such as Pas? The glaring political opportunism as well as dishonesty was not missed by players in Malaysia's hyperactive and often unscrupulous political scene, nor by its followers or his own constituents.
Azizi now faces the almost certain fate of becoming another piece of rubbish in Malaysia's political flotsam and jetsam. His only hope lies in Johari refusing to declare his Gua Musang seat as vacant.
NO FEELING OF SHAME LEFT?
All eyes are now on Anwar and Johari - how low will they go? Will they ignore Bersatu's notification of seat vacancy as well as bin recent court ruling on the Nengiri seat.
Speaker of the Selangor state assembly Lau Weng San, who reportedly was due to announce his decision on July 4, appears to have pulled back - mumbling when queried by the press that he was still 'looking at documents' in what is mostly a straightforward case - that can get complicated only when there are crooked motives or manipulations by unseen hands.
Few expect Lau not to make the same 'decision' as Johari - so as to be able to offer each other's decision as justification for their own.
Many expect the Lau and Johari decisions to reek of abuse of power and to stink of might is right. Both men are now seen as 'hiding' behind the 21-day grace period they are entitled to before announcing their stands.
"There is no feeling of shame in the Anwar regime anymore. The professionalism that they promised when they were in the opposition was the first to be thrown out of the window when they finally became the government," a veteran watcher told PoliticsNow!
"In the coffee shops around the country, even their supporters no longer defend them. Initially, they were called an embarrassment but now they are openly acknowledged as a total disgrace. And the more Anwar tries to cling to power by clamping down on the people's social media or tighten press freedom, both of which impinges on freedom of speech, the angrier the people will become."
Written by Stan Lee, PoliticsNow!
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