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OPINION | No worries about Johor, not flogging a dead horse.
19 Jun 2026 • 12:30 PM MYT
Pointless flogging a dead horse while opponents have a prancing horse.
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Johor is a lost cause. That is the reason why Prime Minister Anwar is so nonchalant about it when asked if he is worried about the Johor polls. He is not going to flog a dead horse.
PKR only held a solitary single seat. DAP had 10 seats but are expected to lose some seats due to their supporters’ anger and frustration towards them.
The other component party of PH, Amanah, similarly held a single seat. Amanah has now drifted to irrelevance and near anonymity.
BN had 40 seats out of the 56-seat state assembly. Economically the state is galloping away and investment is pouring in especially for data centers and high-tech industries. This is the one and only state where graduates are supposedly to be paid RM4,000 per month.
Johor is the prancing horse for UMNO. They want to use it as a springboard for other upcoming state elections in Negri Sembilan, Melaka and Perlis.
Rafizi Ramli new party Bersama has thrown their hat in the ring and this will dilute PKR and to some extent DAP support even further.
DAP, who will steal horses with Anwar to stay in power, has lost the confidence and trust of their supporters with their subservient and muted role in government, both federal and state. After the Sabah debacle, apart from announcing a July conference to decide whether to remain in government subject to reforms being accelerated, they remained mainly supine and subdued. To further demonstrate their lack of backbone, this conference has now been postponed to August.
In their attempt to switch Marina Ibrahim to the Tiram seat from Skudai, DAP lost a winning horse. Their horses for causes debacle lost them a winnable Malay candidate and made a mockery of their election promise not to appoint any party member to a GLC or statutory organization post.
BN, especially UMNO is ultra confident of winning the Johor election with caretaker Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz openly declaring they will never work with DAP. BN Chairperson Zahid Hamidi drove in the wedge deeper by pointedly reminding the 30 UMNO MPs is what give the Madini government a majority in Parliament and further thrown down the gauntlet to Pakatan Harapan in the Johor and Negri Sembilan polls.
Anwar Ibrahim and DAP cracked their whip at Onn Hafiz and told him to get off his high horse which he did but Zahid Hamidi did not bother to rein Onn in.
This oozing self-assurance and the gall to thumb their noses at their political allies in some state and at federal level must have brought reality to Anwar Ibrahim. He was late off the starting blocks for the polls and has been out maneuvered and is trailing badly behind.
Anwar Ibrahim will not flog a dead horse; there will be no regime change in Johor after the elections. He is playing uninterested and cool about it. Instead, he is trying to redirect the narrative and plot to national issues, especially fuel subsidize which he will not budge and hopes to be his redemption.
By diverting attention with the notion of solving national issues and problems, it could be spun and perceived as a contributing factor to PH loss and save face for himself and PH.
But of course, his main and only concern now is clinging onto the PM position till full term and hoping the fuel subsidized crisis, shaky economy situation, and political mess will turn around before GE16. Then he may be the winning horse galloping past the GE16 winning post.
PKR only held a solitary single seat. DAP had 10 seats but are expected to lose some seats due to their supporters’ anger and frustration towards them.
The other component party of PH, Amanah, similarly held a single seat. Amanah has now drifted to irrelevance and near anonymity.
BN had 40 seats out of the 56-seat state assembly. Economically the state is galloping away and investment is pouring in especially for data centers and high-tech industries. This is the one and only state where graduates are supposedly to be paid RM4,000 per month.
Johor is the prancing horse for UMNO. They want to use it as a springboard for other upcoming state elections in Negri Sembilan, Melaka and Perlis.
Rafizi Ramli new party Bersama has thrown their hat in the ring and this will dilute PKR and to some extent DAP support even further.
DAP, who will steal horses with Anwar to stay in power, has lost the confidence and trust of their supporters with their subservient and muted role in government, both federal and state. After the Sabah debacle, apart from announcing a July conference to decide whether to remain in government subject to reforms being accelerated, they remained mainly supine and subdued. To further demonstrate their lack of backbone, this conference has now been postponed to August.
In their attempt to switch Marina Ibrahim to the Tiram seat from Skudai, DAP lost a winning horse. Their horses for causes debacle lost them a winnable Malay candidate and made a mockery of their election promise not to appoint any party member to a GLC or statutory organization post.
BN, especially UMNO is ultra confident of winning the Johor election with caretaker Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz openly declaring they will never work with DAP. BN Chairperson Zahid Hamidi drove in the wedge deeper by pointedly reminding the 30 UMNO MPs is what give the Madini government a majority in Parliament and further thrown down the gauntlet to Pakatan Harapan in the Johor and Negri Sembilan polls.
Anwar Ibrahim and DAP cracked their whip at Onn Hafiz and told him to get off his high horse which he did but Zahid Hamidi did not bother to rein Onn in.
This oozing self-assurance and the gall to thumb their noses at their political allies in some state and at federal level must have brought reality to Anwar Ibrahim. He was late off the starting blocks for the polls and has been out maneuvered and is trailing badly behind.
Anwar Ibrahim will not flog a dead horse; there will be no regime change in Johor after the elections. He is playing uninterested and cool about it. Instead, he is trying to redirect the narrative and plot to national issues, especially fuel subsidize which he will not budge and hopes to be his redemption.
By diverting attention with the notion of solving national issues and problems, it could be spun and perceived as a contributing factor to PH loss and save face for himself and PH.
But of course, his main and only concern now is clinging onto the PM position till full term and hoping the fuel subsidized crisis, shaky economy situation, and political mess will turn around before GE16. Then he may be the winning horse galloping past the GE16 winning post.
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