COMMENT | Maybe Harapan was too nice, that’s why it’s finishing last
COMMENT | If you look at Pakatan Harapan’s leadership council, you’d realise one thing - they’re all nice people. Since Azmin Ali, Zuraida Kamaruddin and the nine other MPs defected, there is no one you could say has a reputation of great evil.
In fact, the last general election was framed as a moral choice between Najib Abdul Razak and Harapan, and people trusted Harapan because they were nice people - at least they weren’t corrupt.
But being nice doesn’t win you elections.
When I talk about Harapan, I will always think of the former British deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg. In private, his friends and colleagues would describe the former Liberal Democrats (Lib Dem) leader as...
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