Dreaming Is Free – How Bersatu & PAS Try To Scam Chinese & Indian Voters Again For Extra 22-37 Seats

Dreaming Is Free – How Bersatu & PAS Try To Scam Chinese & Indian Voters Again For Extra 22-37 Seats


September 16th, 2025 by financetwitter


Although Bersatu and PAS are supposedly equal partners in the Perikatan Nasional coalition, both Malay-centric political parties do not see eye-to-eye. Distrust, greed, ego, and even jealousy were some of the reasons the two opposition parties tried to show who’s the boss. If not for the fact that they still need each other to hoodwink voters, both would have split yesterday.




For almost three years since the November 2022 General Election that produced a hung parliament, yet PAS-Bersatu failed to form the federal government due to arrogance, the relationship between racist bigot Bersatu (PPBM or Malaysian United Indigenous Party) and religious extremist PAS (Malaysian Islamic Party) has seen nothing but bad blood, tension, suspicion and whatnot.



On one side, Bersatu under the weak, directionless and boring leadership of Muhyiddin Yassin remains adamant that the post of prime minister belongs to the party, despite the fact that it had won 31 parliamentary seats in the previous 15th national polls thanks to the grassroots and machinery of Islamist party PAS. On its own, Bersatu was just an empty vessel.



Bersatu members believed the premiership was their birthright. After all, it had given birth to two (treachery and treasonous) premiers since it was founded in 2016, never mind the 7th Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and the 8th Prime Minister Muhyiddin had served for only 22 and 17 months respectively. Ironically, Mahathir was betrayed by Muhyiddin, who in turn was betrayed by a faction aligned to Najib Razak, another ex-PM.



On another side, PAS under the ambitious, radical and dangerous leadership of Abdul Hadi Awang remains committed to returning to power after having tasted blood as a governing partner under Muhyiddin’s 17-month and Ismail Sabri’s 15-month backdoor governments. Holding 43 of the 222 seats in the Dewan Rakyat (Lower House), PAS has become the largest party, something unthinkable before 2022.



PAS members believed the time had come to claim the premiership. After all, without its strong machinery and loyal grassroots, parasite Bersatu would be just a mosquito party. It was PAS’s generosity and charity that power-hungry Muhyiddin became a prime minister. Besides, Bersatu leaders were untrustworthy based on how 6 Bersatu MPs had defected, leaving the party with just 25 MPs.




Unlike Bersatu, which has plunged into chaos due to an internal power struggle between Muhyiddin and his deputy president Hamzah Zainudin, PAS remains strong and united. Hadi cleverly says the next prime minister should be below 70 years of age, delivering a slap in the face of 78-year-old Muhyiddin, whose party has shamelessly nominated him as the prime ministerial candidate about a week ago.



To further insult Mr Muhyiddin, Mr Hadi says he is not qualified to be the next prime minister because of his age and health. The tactical move – comparing power-crazy cancer survivor Muhyiddin with Hadi – was designed to impress and brainwash more Malay-Muslim voters to flock to PAS. Make no mistake – Hadi can play the magnanimous card because his clueless deputy, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, can be controlled like a puppet.



Even though Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim could call for a snap election as early as next year, the due date is as late as 17 February 2028. But the egoistic PAS leaders have already started counting chickens before they hatch. At the PAS’ annual congress on Sept 15 and Sept 16, its vice-president Nik Amar Abdullah bragged that the Islamist party could win 80 parliamentary seats in the next general election.




That’s a huge jump for PAS – from current 43 to 80 MPs – as the extremist Islamist party began beating the war drum in its bid to return to federal power. Assuming Bersatu could retain its current 25 seats and snatch back 6 seats lost due to defection, Perikatan Nasional needs one more seat to form a simple majority government. Muhyiddin was equally boastful, but not as bombastic.



According to Muhyiddin, Perikatan Nasional is targeting an additional 15 to 22 parliamentary seats, pushing the total seats it won in November 2022 from 73 to 95, just shy of 17 seats to form the federal government. However, there’s one huge problem with PAS’ prediction to win a jaw-dropping 111 seats (PAS’ 80 seats and Bersatu’s 31 seats) under the mixture of PAS and Perikatan Nasional banner.



Even at the peak during the previous ruling government of Barisan Nasional under “Mr Clean” Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, UMNO had won only 109 seats in the 2004 General Election. Even then, it was made possible due to the overwhelming support of ethnic Chinese and Indian voters, which PAS and Bersatu had failed to capture, and are now trying to convince, but will never succeed.




When 90% of the non-Malay voters abandoned the Najib administration in the May 2018 General Election, the ruling government lost power for the first time in history. Based on PAS’ latest fantasy to swing an additional 37 seats, it means not only UMNO would lose its entire 26 seats and close shop, but also at the same time an extra 11 seats where Chinese were the kingmakers would mysteriously vote for PAS.



Meanwhile, Muhyiddin’s wet dream of securing an additional 15 to 22 parliamentary seats was based on the wishful thinking that a collaboration with non-Malay parties could help deliver the Chinese and Indian votes with a snap of a finger. But the biggest and the most influential Chinese-dominated party is the Democratic Action Party (DAP), the biggest party in Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan coalition.



DAP managed to win 40 parliamentary seats courtesy of 95% of Chinese votes. The next biggest non-Malay parties willing to work with racist and extremist Perikatan Nasional are MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) and MIC (Malaysian Indian Congress), possessing only 2 and 1 seat respectively. Even then, MCA’s 2 parliamentary seats were at the mercy of UMNO-Malay hardcore supporters.




There’s a reason why PAS deliberately drags its feet, leaving Bersatu to prematurely – and foolishly – claim the prime minister post. The toxic Islamist party wanted to trick non-Malays into thinking that Muhyiddin was the front runner in the race. Only after Perikatan Nasional has the numbers to form the federal government will PAS demand that Bersatu surrenders the most powerful job.



Yes, Bersatu and PAS wanted to scam non-Malay voters, without which it would be difficult to grab power. But both parties have a different priority to achieve the same goal. PAS’ top priority is not to overly appease the Chinese or Indians, but to replicate the “green wave” tsunami associated with the rise of the right-wing party riding on Islam to hoodwink gullible Malays, especially among “Generations Z and Alpha”.



Gen Zs are those born between 1997 and 2012, and Gen Alphas are born from about 2010 onwards. They will form a key voting bloc aged 18 to 31 by Malaysia’s next general election, due in 2028 or earlier. That’s why PAS Youth Chief Afnan Hamimi purposely revved his Yamaha RX-Z motorcycle, filling the conference hall with the smell of petrol and exhaust smoke during the opening of the PAS youth wing annual meeting.




It was a cheap political gimmick to reach out to young people – working-class youth fence-sitters not entirely indoctrinated by partisan ideals yet – who would “rev their RX-Z” much like he had done earlier. In 2022, that sizeable voter base formed much of the anti-establishment vote that nearly took PAS and its Perikatan Nasional coalition to power – known as the “green wave”.



It was also a copycat of a tactic previously used by now-convicted former PM Najib Razak with his “Bossku” image that appealed to the motorbike-riding culture of the working class, after his Barisan Nasional coalition fell in 2018. But Afnan’s stunt could also mean that PAS was struggling to reach out to the modern-minded “jeans and caps” youth, who were not interested in religious scholars donning “jubah” and “kopiah”.



In truth, PAS-governed four states – Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Kedah – have become toxic, where Malay youth are facing serious youth issues – unemployment, drugs, flood, social mobility, incomes, and other social issues. Therefore, to divert attention from PAS’s incompetence, Hadi tries to undermine comrade Muhyiddin, blame PM Anwar, and deceive PAS members that the Islamist party is ready to form an Islamic state.




Bersatu’s top priority, on the other hand, is to maintain its relevance among its increasingly restless and demoralized members. At the same time, to preserve its ultra-Malay image in competition with the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), Bersatu allows partner PAS to mock, attack, insult and belittle the Chinese community, including Perikatan Nasional junior partner Gerakan president Dominic Lau.



But PAS needs to offer more than “revving their RX-Z” or “Islamisation” (with 72 virgins thrown in). The “green wave” in 2022 was merely a form of protest voting against perceived failures of the ruling elite, which explains why Najib lost his power, reducing UMNO’s parliamentary seats to 54 (2018) from 88 (2013), before another corrupt UMNO leader – Zahid Hamidi – drove UMNO to its worst result in history with merely 26 seats in 2022.



Rather than voting for Islamisation, Kuala Lumpur-based think-tank Iman Research in its study revealed that voters were instead motivated by a demand for integrity, fairness and honesty in Malaysian leadership. Malay youth were also concerned about their economic livelihoods and futures, an area where PAS has yet to show it is competent to handle.




Arguably, PAS and Bersatu’s results in the 2022 general election was its peak already. Insulting the non-Malays as “kafir”, warning the non-Malays that only PAS-Malays can lead, intimidating the non-Malays with Islamisation, attacking the non-Malays for the sake of bullying, and interfering in non-Malays’ internal affairs would only convince the non-Malays to avoid Perikatan Nasional with a 10-foot pole, despite growing discontent with the current unity government led by Anwar Ibrahim.