OPINION | Harapan Nasional – The New Boss in Town

OPINION | Harapan Nasional – The New Boss in Town


13 Aug 2025 • 8:00 AM MYT


TheRealNehruism
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From independence until 2018, Malaysia was ruled by BN.


Barisan Nasional, however, fell in 2018, and since then political instability has rocked the nation because there has been no one able to replace Barisan Nasional after it fell.


Well, soon the political instability might end.


Move aside, Barisan Nasional — there is a new boss in town, and tentatively, I am going to name it Harapan Nasional.


It will be composed of PKR, DAP and Umno.


PKR will compete in the mixed seats with a significant Malay electorate, DAP will compete in the mixed seats with a significant Chinese electorate, while Umno will contest in the Malay-majority seats.


I am predicting that there is a move to create such a coalition because the Umno-led BN is already moving to divorce MIC and MCA.


In terms of optics, it might look like MCA and MIC are eager to leave the Umno-led BN — but in reality, it might actually be Umno that is trying to divorce MIC and MCA.


First, they are making MCA and MIC feel unwanted, to prod them to leave. When MIC and MCA leave, Umno will make a half-hearted attempt to get them to stay — without really wanting them to stay.


When MCA and MIC leave, Umno will be free to join DAP and PKR to form Harapan Nasional, while not being blamed for dumping MIC and MCA when it no longer needs them.


If I was Umno, I would want to divorce MIC and MCA too. I would want to divorce them because they are a burden to me. I gain no benefit from having them with me, but it is expensive and burdensome to take care of my relationship with them.


Both MCA and MIC cannot win anything on their own, but whatever I manage to win for myself, they want a share of it too.


Rather than be with them, I would rather be with PKR and DAP, because then instead of being perpetually harassed by defeat because I am with a bunch of losers, I can be on the winning side for a change and expect to court fortune.


Currently, it is PKR that is leading the team that I am in, with DAP and me being the supporting actors, because fortune is favouring PKR more than it is favouring me. In the next election, if fortune favours me, there is no reason why I won’t be the leading winner, with PKR and DAP as my supporting actors.


By getting rid of MIC and MCA, I will also win in another way — because MIC and MCA will likely join my opponents, Bersatu and PAS in Perikatan Nasional, and become a burden to them as they are to me.


Bersatu and PAS are my biggest competitors after all — in an election, they are the ones I will be fighting head-on.


Right now, Bersatu and PAS have an edge over me. But after MIC and MCA weaken them the way they are weakening me now, who knows — it might be me who has the edge over them.


Once I have an edge over them, I will win when I compete against them. And when I win against them, I might be the apex winner in my own team, with PKR and DAP as my wingmen.


I can see that the age of race-based parties, of which I was once the champion, is over.


Today, if you want to rule Malaysia, you have to be a multiracial party, like PKR or DAP.


The only powerful race- and religion-based party in the country today is PAS — but PAS is only able to remain strong because it has not been troubled by the need to take care of the interests of other race-based parties.


Sure, it has Gerakan and MIPP in its midst, but they are not strong enough to pose a problem to PAS.


Once MIC and MCA join them, then PAS will be burdened — and if PAS is burdened, I will benefit the most from their troubles.


A lot of people are seeing MIC and MCA thinking about leaving BN as a decision by MIC and MCA, but in my view, it is actually a decision by Umno.


Umno is just creating the conditions for MIC and MCA to leave it, so that it won’t be blamed for breaking up BN — instead, MIC and MCA will be blamed.


If I am right, not long after MIC and MCA leave BN, I believe that Umno, PKR and DAP will form a new coalition — and I am tentatively going to call it Harapan Nasional.


Harapan Nasional will then replace BN as the dominant coalition in the country, and bring back political stability to the nation.

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Aeons back, Aziz Nazri had openly said he wanted DAP to replace MCA in BN - see below:

I respect DAP because they get votes, while you’re a ‘reject’, Nazri tells MCA man





Monday, 12 Sep 2016 12:20 PM MYT


KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz hit back at his MCA ally Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker today, calling the latter a “reject” who is unable to garner votes from the Chinese community during elections unlike their DAP political foe Lim Guan Eng.

In an extended war of words, the Umno supreme council member told the MCA central committee member that he respected the DAP and its leader because they had earned it through the democratic process, which he also respected.

“I am good with Lim Guan Eng because I respect democracy as the Chinese community chose Lim Guan Eng and DAP.

“So I have to respect democracy and respect them. Why would I want to respect Ti when the people reject him.

“I am confident even if he were to contest in the general election, the rakyat will also reject him because the Chinese people truly hate people like him,” Nazri was quoted telling news portal Malaysiakini.