KUCHING: The greatest hurdle for Pakatan Harapan (PH) in the 15th General Election (GE15) is making Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Malaysia’s 10th Prime Minister.
Having said that, Democratic Action Party (DAP) veteran Lim Kit Siang said it would take a “political miracle,” but he did not rule out the chance that Malaysians will unite as they did four years ago when they voted out the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
“To make Anwar Ibrahim the tenth Prime Minister of Malaysia is a tall order — equally or probably harder than toppling the Umno/BN political hegemony in the GE14.
“But if the Malaysian voters can perform a ‘political miracle’ in the GE14, they can perform another ‘political miracle’ in GE15 on forthcoming November 19 ,” said Lim according to a MalayMail report.
Lim also pointed out that the Sheraton Move that triggered the collapse of the PH government in 2020 was not a “complete failure”.
He remarked that former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak from UMNO ended up in prison after being found guilty of embezzling RM42 million belonging to government investment fund SRC International Sdn Bhd.
Lim said that in this election, Malaysians should ask themselves two questions: “Firstly, Is Malaysia worth saving? Secondly, can Malaysia be saved?”
He added that they (Malaysians) must make their views on corruption clear by voting in the GE15.
He claimed that Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is solely concerned with keeping himself and his party leaders out of jail, rather than rebuilding the country that has been devastated by the post-pandemic global economy.
In the words of Malaysia’s first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Malaysia cannot become a “beacon of light in a challenging and distracted world” unless its inhabitants take a bold stand against “darkness.”
“Malaysia has not reached the stage of a totally broken, divided, and failed nation, although we have fallen considerably from our expectations of a world-class great plural nation.
“But Malaysia is still ‘save-able’ and worth saving,” he said.
Anwar, the chairman of the PH coalition, has been formally nominated as the country’s next prime minister, should it prevail in the general election on November 19.
Anwar has also said that he will not seek reelection to the parliamentary seat he currently holds in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, but rather will stand in Tambun, Perak, where the incumbent MP Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu is a former Bersatu ally and former state menteri besar.
