Political uncertainties certain.

 Sun 30 August 2020.

What's certain are the political uncertainties.

The pandemic has not stopped the political epidemic.  If anything, politics have overtaken science when dealing with the deadly medical calamity, and the country continues to suffer. The movement control order is extended to the end of the year. The ruling government may not get a more generous extension.

But Malaysian politics seem to take on a life of their own when the chips are clearly down. Convicted crooks become popular, and the bearers of truth  become  disparaged.  A 60-year old rotting party is brought down by a 90-year old  octogenerian, but a sacked leader saved sacks his saviour.

After a hard-fought battle, UMNO lost hold of the government it controlled for 6 decades. Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Japan are countries Malaysians know, that practice some semblence of democracy. The political parties that ruled there didn't last 60 years. So the Malaysian experience is not a first. What may be a first is the return to power of someone like UMNO after  less than 2 years, through either the clever manipulations of erratic events, or the less-than-clever orchestration of erratic leadership.

Sufficient number of voters were swayed into believing that UMNO should be discarded because of,now proven, thievery by its top leaders. Since then, 6 bye-elections have shown that the support has been lost. Not a single UMNO thief has gone to jail yet, even as one is convicted and several others are in different stages of court prosecution. Is UMNO able to change the voters perception of right and wrong, even as the facts are laid bare?

Has the contrived coalition government the numbers in Parliament to hold on to power? If everyone's uncertain, why not simply take a count ? When the votes for the replacement of the Speaker were counted, the government got 111, exactly half of the total. That's no win.

The party holding the key to the hastily concocted coalition, BERSATU, has only 6 of its original MP's. The other 6 are with the opposition faction. That's not real power.  That's why every Tom, Dick and Harry in UMNO are talking down to the poor PM now. And he's there swallowing it, bit by painful bit. His deafening silence is not a show of quiet strength. It's simply loss for words.

So black is not black, white not white ? Nothing is certain ? 

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