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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Will Muhyiddin please stand up?

The movement to oust Najib lacks a candidate for PM
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Muhyiddin Yassin looks like a defeated man. Not a whisper is heard nowadays from the former deputy prime minister, who has been slowly but surely marginalised as the Deputy President of Umno since he lost his government job.
Muhyiddin, once considered the strongest candidate to spearhead the campaign to oust Najib, has been silenced and cast aside.
There was a time when he could have grabbed the torch and ridden the wave all the way to Putrajaya, but his decision to kowtow to the party line has essentially cast him out of the public eye. In fact, we are talking about Muhyiddin today only because former premier Mahathir Mohamad and analyst Shahbudin Husin have called upon him to take up the standard against Najib.
Shahbudin is particularly invested in the notion. He has long been pleading that Muhyiddin not let Mahathir struggle alone, and now he has urged him to react to being sidelined despite pledging his loyalty to Umno.
Both also point out that Muhyiddin no longer has anything to lose, and that it is better to go down fighting for what is right than to stand silent in the face of blatant abuse of authority and widespread corruption.
More important, though, is the need for a figurehead to emerge. The movement to oust Najib has lacked a face that can be its rallying point. Some have called for Mahathir to take the seat of PM again, but at 90, he knows he cannot, to the best of his ability, repair the damage done to our economy, let alone quiet the current racial strife in the country.
Without that rallying point in the form of a willing candidate, Mahathir can go to every ceramah, every public forum, and every protest to spread his message, and it will all come to naught. This candidate will become Prime Minister when all is said and done, and Muhyiddin’s position as Deputy President of Umno puts him in prime position to be that person.
Muhyiddin must know that his position in the party now means nothing. Stripped of his duties, he serves no purpose. It is perhaps only fear of earning the displeasure of his supporters that Najib has not cast him out of the party. Those supporters come mostly from one of Umno’s fixed-deposit states, Johor, and they include its outspoken clan of royals.
So will Muhyiddin stand up? The reasons given by Shahbudin and Mahathir are concrete, and Muhyiddin himself knows that. The question is, does he believe in Najib more than he believes in Umno?

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