COMMENT | Parliament decapitated out of Muhyiddin’s fear

COMMENT | If Pakatan Harapan Plus – PKR, Amanah, DAP, Warisan and Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s faction of Bersatu – can hold together without being cracked, Muhyiddin Yassin will likely have to make one of the two following choices:

• First, to go to the polls to seek a fresh mandate which will be detrimental to Muhyiddin and Azmin Ali but to the delight of Umno;
• Second, resign and allow the king to appoint a new government especially if he fails to pass Budget 2021;

I don’t rule out other possibilities such as Muhyiddin repressing parliamentary democracy altogether. But as long as Harapan Plus is holding on tightly, Muhyiddin is stuck and has no room to manoeuvre.

Delaying Parliament sitting from March 9 to May 18 was meant to give him time to “buy” enough MPs to form a comfortable majority. That objective has clearly failed.

The Muhyiddin government is now afraid of calling Parliament.

First, Dewan Rakyat’s secretary Riduan Rahmat’s removal and...