The 9th. PM

 Sat 28.8.2021.

We'll be celebrating our 64th. "Merdeka" day in 3 days' time. In that time we've had 14 General Elections. That works out to 4.57 years per GE. We've had, by now, 9 PM's. That works out to 7.11 years per PM. But 3 (33%) of the PM's have come in the last 37 months, or less than 4% of the total time.  That works out to  12.33 months per  PM.  There must be  some sort of records, set somewhere, surely.

4.57 years per GE seems all right by any standard. 7.11 years per PM also seems ok. The current Parliament is 37 months old. The next GE isn't due until May 2023, about 2 years away. That's ok, too, even if a fresh GE is called tomorrow. The 3 PM's in 37 months is something else.

When the 8th. PM made the "Sheraton" move in February 2020, less than 2 years after PH pulled the carpet from under UMNO and BN, people were  caught by surprise. It was thought that PH had no less than 130 seats in the 222-seat Parliament. There was no reason for the 8th. PM to dump the PH partners of DAP-PKR-Amanah and the Sabah/Sarawak allies. UMNO was the sworn enemy for GE 14. UMNO had even kicked out the 8th.PM less than 2 years before the GE. And now he personally brought back UMNO to power by renegading on PH and, worse, on the campaign promises! Now the whole gang of kleptocrats, mired in on-going high-profiled court cases, were "invited" back into government ?

The 9th. PM has done what UMNO is always capable of. Play out its saviour, the 8th. PM. There was this new cabinet, with the 8th. PM on top. After the incessant politicking when the people were sufferring  Covid 19, the 9th. PM and his UMNO team pulled the 8th. PM down and got for himself the PMship. He put back a new cabinet. But except for the new PM, himself, the crockery in the cabinet is the same one the 8th. PM put there. Perhaps it's better said in Malay - "kabinet baru dengan mangkuk lama" - new cabinet with old crockery. A cabinet  to put things in, like books and crockery. "Mangkuk" is crockery. But "mangkuk" is also colloquial for "useless, hopeless, stupid, inter alia".

They also say, when something is never going to happen, "don't hold your breath". But I think you can hold your breath for the collapse of the 9th. PM. The proviso is, they start concentrating on Covid 19.

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