Three Lorries of Prime Ministers, Please!

OPINION | Three Lorries of Prime Ministers, Please!



19 Sep 2025 • 8:00 AM MYT


Mihar Dias
A behaviourist by training, a consultant and executive coach by profession

Illustration by Microsoft Copilot

By Mihar Dias September 2025


PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin may have just solved Malaysia’s perennial leadership crisis—forget the ballot box, bring in the lorries. https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/755088


Three of them, to be precise, fully loaded with men who apparently look, walk, and perhaps even mumble like Anwar Ibrahim.


It’s an imaginative statement. One wonders what sort of procurement process is needed to source “lorry-loads” of prime ministerial material.


Do they come wholesale from a political warehouse in Kubang Kerian? Buy one, get one free? Or do they arrive flat-packed, Ikea-style, requiring assembly with an Allen key and a copy of the General Orders?


If PAS can indeed muster three lorries of potential PMs, this raises practical questions.


Where do you park them? Parliament’s basement lot is already full. Perhaps KLIA cargo bay could be converted into a “Prime Ministerial Holding Area” where aspiring leaders wait their turn like durian crates heading to China.


The problem, of course, is that when you start producing prime ministers by the truckload, you run the risk of quality control.


Imagine a Customs officer pulling one aside:


“Eh, boss, this one’s got a dent on the forehead. Reject or discount?”


Hashim’s boast is also a thinly veiled jab at Anwar, suggesting that if PMX is the yardstick, then leadership is as common as coconuts in Kelantan.


But by that same logic, why stop at three lorries? Why not a whole fleet? A convoy of PM lookalikes rolling down the PLUS Highway, hazard lights on, each rehearsing their maiden speech about “Madani economics”?


Let’s be honest: Malaysians might actually enjoy this system. Every week, a new PM from the lot.


One Monday it’s “PM No. 22B” promising to abolish tolls, the next Friday it’s “PM 35C” announcing free nasi lemak for all.


The rakyat wouldn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or just set up a TikTok channel reviewing prime ministers like seasonal fruit.


In the end, Hashim may have handed us the most unintentionally hilarious image in Malaysian politics—a lorry reversing into Putrajaya with a “Beep! Beep!” sound, unloading fresh batches of PM hopefuls onto the curb. Malaysia truly Boleh.


Yes, We Can!