Anwar doesn't deserve a second term

Malaysiakini

24-06-2025

YOURSAY | 'If Anwar remains, PKR and Harapan are doomed.'
COMMENT | Anwar's second term needs Rafizi's base
GP225: Wong Chin Huat, after all of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's betrayals, why are you rooting for him for a second term?
Like you said, the majority are fatigued by Anwar simply because there is no way out, because of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Umno.
The fact that you don't want to accept is that Anwar, because of the MOU, is occupying the PM's office without the mandate of the people. This is because of the deals through the MOU you suggested.
He is using that office through rampant abuse of power to help Umno get Malay support back.
This is both unethical and undemocratic to win majority support by manipulating the people who don't want him as PM. This is unacceptable. Why are you supporting this?
Dr Suresh Kumar: Anwar should not be given a second term. He has proven that he is not a leader but a dealer and a political schemer.
A second term for him may bring more disasters to our economy and foreign policies.
The only way for PKR to be relevant again is to get rid of Anwar for good. Then we will talk about PKR/Pakatan Harapan's future.
His failure to address domestic policy concerns, his mendacious propaganda and wheeling and dealing with corrupt scoundrels have rendered reform-minded voters mentally fatigued and sick.
If Anwar remains, PKR and Harapan are doomed.
MS: Like its misleading name, Harapan is a sick joke.
Tired of living in hope, which, like Godot, is always arriving but never comes, the long-ignored minorities, by and large, will simply not turn up. But watch ambitions crumble and hopes dashed from the sidelines.
It will finally come down to the spectacle of Malays going at each other, gnarling, growling, and yelping for their turn at the swill.
Unlike previous general elections, which always had villainy on one side and righteous underdogs on the other, the next one will be a contest among moral and intellectual pygmies of all varieties.
It will not be a contest of ideas for the betterment of the country. Rather, it will showcase the worst impulses of the contestants - their unvarnished bigotry - as they huff and they puff to bring each other down.
IndigoGoat3056: This is a timely and thorough analysis of the internal tensions within PKR and the broader Madani government.
The central point is clear: Anwar's path to a second term hinges not just on managing Malay voter sentiment or Umno cooperation, but also on whether he can retain the reformist soul of PKR and Harapan.
Former PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli's departure, along with Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, should not be dismissed lightly.
They represent an increasingly disillusioned base, not just with broken promises, but with a leadership that appears more concerned with survival than reform.
If Anwar sidelines this idealistic faction, PKR risks the same fate as other centrist parties globally, punished by their own base for drifting into pragmatism without purpose.
Institutionalising reform voices through stronger parliamentary roles and empowering backbenchers may be the only way to preserve PKR's identity and stem the bleeding of voter trust.
The choice Anwar faces is strategic: protect the party from within or win GE16 with a hollowed-out base. Either way, time is ticking.
Reformati5X: Almost every day, the rakyat take to social media to curse and bash Anwar non-stop.
If 50 percent of non-Malays boycott GE16, the 50 marginal seats won by Harapan in GE15 will be lost!
What's the point of voting? Both political divides are equally corrupt.
Smart and intelligent non-Malays will stay home, boycott, and abstain from voting, a perfectly democratic form of protest and watch ketuanan (supremacy) battle it out.
Anwar must be defeated by hook or by crook.
As for DAP, the dead-in-power party, they too will suffer heavy losses in GE16 for their silence on the 10 high-profile DNAA cases.
Let's admit it: PKR and DAP can only be credible in opposition, where they excel.
After three years in power, Harapan has proven that it lacks the ability to govern, and corruption is now institutionalised.
ACR: BN and Umno have a track record of bringing some economic development over decades, something Perikatan Nasional/PAS cannot do.
Corruption is endemic in this country, and it has also afflicted Harapan.
Doing nothing that was promised just to remain in power is a corrupt act. By the time GE16 is called, there will be very little difference between Harapan and BN.
But boycotting the GE is a bad move, as you would inevitably usher in a party or coalition that would be detrimental to your well-being.
The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka boycotted the 2005 GE due to some unhappiness over Sri Lanka's ninth president, Ranil Wickremasinghe, which led to the ascendency of ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Within the term, that is 2009, the community and its leader were decimated.
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