Muafakat Nasional imploding
The Muafakat Nasional alliance is on the verge of collapse.
Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has indicated that his party will not work with PAS in the forthcoming Malacca state election.
This is amid a PAS push for Umno to work with Bersatu, which Zahid has completely ruled out.
Zahid said Umno had been betrayed repeatedly in the alliance and that this was the cause for a re-evaluation.
PAS is officially a member of the Bersatu-led Perikatan Nasional coalition and has repeatedly shown that it would side with Bersatu over Umno.
Unless Zahid's rival in Umno, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob - who is Bersatu friendly - postpones the Malacca polls with a localised emergency, a major rift at the national level may break out.
Don't worry there is still Pejuang to prop up muafakat national.
ReplyDeleteNothing surprising.
ReplyDeleteEven at the peak of their success about 2019, when they won a series of by-elections defeating Harapan, perceptive observers already saw clearly this was about
a) An alliance of convenience
b) PAS and UMNO have a long history of betraying each other.
c) Cries of Malay/Muslim unity are easily drowned out by more materialistic urges.