COMMENT | Anwar, failure as PM

COMMENT | Anwar Ibrahim is a failure as prime minister. For all the bravado about far-reaching reforms and changes, he is nothing but a weak leader.

While he plays to the ethnic and religious gallery of the Malays, he has proven to be a poor administrator of the country.

Before he was swept to power, he promised an unceasing war against corruption. However, once in power, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) of the corruption case involving millions of ringgit from Yayasan Akalbudi.

The whole world demanded an explanation, even as the government tried to hide the “pumpkin under a heap of cooked rice”, as the Tamil proverb goes.

Not long afterwards, former Umno president Najib Razak, who is still languishing in prison for corruption and money laundering, was given the reprieve of a reduced sentence by the Pardons Board chaired by the former King.

Yet, despite these contradictions, Anwar went after...