As Mahathir Mohamad gets more and more ‘visible’ within the political scene, and with Najib Razak as Prime Minister in-waiting awaits his appointment next year in March, Najib has been liken to the former premier Dr M. in doing things.
Will be it be back to the ‘old’ days where the heads of UMNO will not bat an eyelid to use force to suppress political threats.
Dr. M ideas of how to ‘runs’ things are well documented and just read the below excerpts from a recent interview on his views on the local political scene. It is a total opposite of the Opposition leaders Anwar Ibrahim mandate where his Keadilan party revolves around and are drawn from all three racial groups.
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad
“It doesn’t work, every multiracial party is dominated by one race. Even the PAP in Singapore is not multiracial, as is very clear when Hsien Loong says no non-Chinese can become PM. We are still not united if we can’t even agree on having a school where all children study together regardless of race, so how can we push aside racial concerns? Unless people come together and try to have something in common… how can you have a party representing all the different races? You have to have a base first.
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