COMMENT - Is the PM powerless after 2018? By Mariam Mokhtar

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | Has Malaysia’s prime minister really become powerless since 2018? It is a claim that has gained traction in public discussion recently, often presented as an obvious reading of today’s more fragmented political environment.

Coalition tensions are more visible, negotiations are more public, and decisions sometimes appear slower. What is often missed is that this conclusion is based only on what is visible.

The office of the PM remains one of the most powerful executive positions in the country. It can appoint and dismiss cabinet ministers, set national policy direction, and control the main tools of government. These powers remain intact.

It is important to be clear that this authority has not disappeared. What has changed is not the existence of power, but the conditions under which it is used.

Kajang pigeon : The uncomfortable truth is that Anwar was never exactly the brightest bulb in the hardware shop. Mahathir’s tyranny handed him a political gift hamper, and he rode that sympathy train all the way to relevance. 

Then came Najib’s kleptocracy, which he milked so thoroughly even a dairy cow would have filed a workplace complaint. At that point, let’s be honest — even an orangutan in a blazer, with the right slogan and a half-decent prayer pose, could have been launched as the nation’s “great reform hope.” 

We thought Anwar had emerged from prison as a transformed statesman — a man who had seen suffering, understood the rakyat, and would return with wisdom, humility, and justice in his pocket. Instead, we got a political mat rempit with a motivational-poster vocabulary, a shallow reform tank, and the leadership spine of wet tissue. 

He gave DAP the finger, winked at the old racist playbook, and somehow managed to repackage the same rotten rhetoric from the opposite side of the fence — like selling expired sardines in a new tin. Reformasi became “reformasi, but only when convenient.” 

Hope became “please hold, your call is important to us.” And the rakyat? Still standing there like idiots, realizing we didn’t vote for a saviour — we accidentally ordered UMNO Lite with extra disappointment

AntiRacial : DSAI is definitely a powerless and a puppet PM controlled by UMNO. DSAI does not dare to express anything against UMNO, worried that UMNO will pull out from the coalition government, and he will lose his PM position.

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