Zahid is free because Harapan supporters enabled it By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Malaysiakini : “The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?”

- Author Umberto Eco

COMMENT | In an attempt to deflect blame from the current Pakatan Harapan government and to give a patina of legitimacy using pragmatism to the mandarins of the state, Andrew Sia wrote a disingenuous piece laying the blame for Ahmad Zahid Hamidi walking free on the unfair weightage of the electoral system.

He also mentioned the voters of Sabah and Sarawak who support corrupt leaders, urban voters who apparently in Sia’s eyes, do not read reform-based political manifestos and of course, the “Green Wave”. 

Zahid is walking free because Harapan supporters, the majority of whom are non-Malays, courtesy of the DAP, allowed this pact with “a lesser evil” in the name of pragmatism.

The people who voted for Perikatan Nasional, a majority of whom are Malays, rejected the corruption of Umno.

Now, you can argue that PN is just as corrupt as Umno but the fact remains that after decades of plundering the country, the majority shifted votes to another Malay/Muslim coalition that campaigned not only on race and religion as Umno did for decades but also on anti-corruption.

It is easy to blame TikTok videos but beneath the easy propaganda, what lies is the rejection by a plurality of Malays of the brazen corruption of Umno, and the belief that a new Malay/Muslim hegemon would course correct this country.

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