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If 10 Barisan Nasional MPs support Muhyiddin as the next PM, but their party and coalition leaders do not, does that mean their support counts as valid? If this question is asked today, the answer is likely to be yes.
Nehru Satyamurthy
The debate over whether Muhyiddin has the support of 115 MPs to become the next prime minister after the 15th general election continues, with another UMNO supreme council member Puad Zarkashi has already joined Pointing out that Muhyiddin does not actually have as much support as he claims.
Despite pressure from both sides police and Pahang Palace In response to his statement, Muhyiddin refused to retract or amend his statement, but decided to double down on his claims. By persisting Everything he said on the issue during the recently concluded Nyangiri by-election campaign was factual.
“I want to stress that the speech I delivered in Njiri was a statement of fact and was not intended to insult the monarchy or contain any inflammatory tendencies.
“I believe my remarks did not violate any national laws. I will fully cooperate with the police to clarify the facts related to my remarks.” Muhyiddin said.
In response to the insistence of the Bersatu chairman, Puad Zarkashi retorted“If this is true, I ask Muhyiddin to release the names of those MPs who he claimed supported him to be the 10th prime minister.”
I personally do believe that Muhyiddin has 115 seats as he claims, not only because I tend to believe that Muhyiddin is basically an honest person — or at least as honest a politician as possible — but also because public records show that Muhyiddin has at least 113 of the 115 seats he claims.
As we all know, The 15th General Election is overPakatan is limited to 81 seats, Pikatan is limited to 74 seats, while GPS Sarawak is limited to 23 seats.
We also know that 10 BN MPs supported Muhyiddin as prime minister at the time because UMNO president Zahid Hamidi himself Recorded A few months later, in January 2023, he expressed this opinion.
By Zahid’s own admission, 10 of the 30 Barisan Nasional MPs (6 from UMNO and the remaining 4 from Barisan Nasional component parties) did sign SDs in support of Muhyiddin as Prime Minister at the end of the 15th General Election as he claimed to have forgiven them for their actions and instructed the 10 MPs to withdraw their SDs in support of PN chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
We also know that according to public records, Muhyiddin also persuaded 24 MPs from GPS and 6 MPs from GRS to support Muhyiddin as Prime Minister. Because immediately after the 15th General Election, GPS chairman Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg said, Publicly announced GPS, Barisan Nasional (BN) and Parti Rakyat Sabah (GRS) all support Muhyiddin.
If the 10 MPs from Perikatan Nasional, Gabungan Nasional, Sarawak Party Alliance and Barisan Nasional are added together, Muhyiddin will get 113 seats.
Muhyiddin claims that he has 115 seats, and while I don’t know where the other two seats came from – they may have come from the eight seats won by smaller parties or independent candidates in the 15th General Election – I will give him credit and believe that he probably does have the 115 seats he claims.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof Confirmed in an interview with MalaysiaKini Muhyiddin has actually submitted the National Constitution Declaration containing the list of 115 MPs to the National Palace.
In any case, the 113 seats he publicly and officially holds alone are one more than the 112 minimum seats needed to form a new government.
Now, if all of the above is public record and confirms that at the end of the 15th General Election, Muhyiddin did have 113 or 115 MPs supporting his candidacy to be the next Prime Minister of Malaysia, then why did Umno’s Puad Zarkashi so boldly challenge Muhyiddin to reveal the names of the BN MPs who Muhyiddin claimed supported his candidacy for Prime Minister?
Well, I think the reason why Puad Zarkashi said this is because although Muhyiddin has 115 National Security Orders to support his claims, there are doubts about the validity of some of his National Security Orders, especially those from 10 BN MPs, because the decisions of these 10 BN MPs were most likely not endorsed by the BN top brass.
If 10 BN MPs support Muhyiddin as the next PM, but their party and coalition leaders do not, does that mean their support can be counted as valid?
If this question were asked today, the answer would most likely be yes, because there is already a precedent. 6 rebel coalition councillorsthey were allowed to support Anwar for prime minister, even though their actions were opposed by senior members of the United Malays National Organization.
However, at that time, both the BN and UMNO leadership did not support the decision of the 10 BN MPs to support Muhyiddin, which was seen as invalidating their support for Muhyiddin, which also led to Muhyiddin’s request to form a cabinet being rejected due to insufficient numbers.
So, to the question of whether Muhyiddin had the support of 115 MPs at the end of the 15th General Election, the answer is yes.
If anyone asks why Muhyiddin did not form the next government, the answer is because the validity of 10 of the 115 state legislative council certificates he holds are questioned.
If one asks whether it is fair to question the validity of these 10 standard deviations, then things become even more fuzzy, complex, confusing, and ambiguous.
Perhaps the best way to answer this question is: it depends on who you ask.
I received an email from Raja Petra from Malaysia Today stating that Raja Petra thought it was fair to question the validity of the 10 National Security Declarations.
But if you ask me, I think these 10 SDs are effective.
I personally think that even if you ask this question to 100 objective and neutral judges, it is likely that 50 will say yes and 50 will say no.
All in all, I think that whoever had to answer this question decisively at the time would inevitably find himself in a situation where “it’s neither good nor bad to do it.”
P/S: On second thought, although I did receive an email from the editor of Malaysia Today regarding this matter, I am not sure if the respondent was Raja Petra. For all you know, Malaysia Today may have more than one editor.
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