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YOUR OPINION | ‘You tried to put a spoke on the wheel in the process, hoping to derail it …’
Dr. M: I arranged for Anwar’s forgiveness, but he did not support me
Kim Quek: No, former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad did not get PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim to pardon and release. Rather, he tried to put a spoke on the wheel in the process, hoping to derail it, as follows from the sequence of events below.
On May 14, 2018, he said that the clemency process “will take some time as we must comply with the rules.” However, the palace issued a statement on the same day that the Agong was satisfied with the procedure and that the Board of Pardons would meet the following day, May 15.
It was at Agong’s insistence that the clemency procedure be completed before the start of the month of Ramadan (starting on May 17) that the meeting was finally agreed on on May 16.
Significantly, it was not you, Mahathir, but Anwar’s family who submitted the petition for clemency, on the grounds of “judicial error.”
Hood: Mahathir, Anwar’s royal forgiveness was the pinnacle of Pakatan Harapan’s promises. The electorate overwhelmingly voted for Harapan on this premise and appointed him prime minister.
As such, he was asked to work with the Board of Pardons to secure Anwar’s release. What he didn’t expect was when Agong pardoned Anwar based on the premise of a judicial error between 1998 and 2018. That means that all the charges against Anwar were fabricated and politically motivated.
If you had honored your own written and spoken word to hand over the baton of prime minister to Anwar, as then-PKR President Wan Azizah Wan Ismail honored his, you would be our hero today, not a zero.
You stole our hard-fought mandate by toppling a legitimately elected government.
GreenHamster8043: Mahathir, now what? Go see the Agong and ask that Anwar be sent to prison? You are the pot that calls the kettle black. It has done enormous damage to the country.
Since 1981, Malaysia has remained stagnant in many fields, including education, economic development, poverty eradication, to name a few. Malays are still poor, but Umno’s cronies are very rich. You call this success?
The racial and religious polarization is even greater. Tell us what you have achieved for this country. We have lost two generations of progress, all because of you and your selfish policies.
Justice now: Anwar had to mortgage his house to cover election expenses. If I’d had such fabulously rich cronies, I wouldn’t have.
You deliberately mention the president of Umno, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, to suggest that Zahid is your crony and is now supporting Anwar to become the next prime minister. What a cunning and perverse psychological attack.
If Anwar wanted to remove him, he would have been humiliated. His mistake was that he took pity on you and respected you as an elder, but you abused all the power of a nation to destroy him. Although he survived.
He supported his pardon because he would be rejected if he did not, he only had 13 seats. Please do not give any credit.
Karma: In fact, it was Mahathir who kept breaking his promise to hand over the PM post to Anwar. He went on to say that Anwar did not have the support of MPs. Mahathir should have been the one who helped Anwar get that support.
Even the day before the Sheraton Move, Anwar said Mahathir was allowed to freely set a date to deliver the post. That is Anwar’s patience and charisma.
YellowMarlin8834: Mahathir, in this matter you have lost my respect. Regardless of what grievances Anwar and you have, it is not the most important thing right now. If you and Anwar really care about rakyat, you shouldn’t say this today.
Reflect on the MPs who chose to be with you, except your own son, like Maszlee Malik. They could have chosen an easier path.
The only truth is that he has betrayed all the Malaysians who voted for Harapan. We wanted him to be prime minister for two years, after which he was supposed to pass the baton on to Anwar. Why didn’t you keep your promise with the rakyat?
Did his refusal to allow Anwar to be Prime Minister replace his promise to us? This is definitely not the quality of a statesman.
As for Anwar, I really don’t know how you got your numbers. If you include Zahid and any corrupt members of Umno, I don’t think the DAP agrees with this kind of arrangement. Don’t let the whites of your white-collar eyes (death before dishonor).
I suppose many of us are very deceived by the attitude of both. Please, one last time, settle the differences and, together with Warisan and any other party, kick out Perikatan Nasional (PN), Umno and PAS for good.
EM: What Mahathir seems to be saying about Anwar may now well be true, just as it was when he visited the latter during his confinement in a prison before the 14 general elections and each time they were seen photographed together between May 2018 and 2019. .
However, the fact is that almost everything that is wrong with the country today can be traced back to the two of them, whose unforgivable reign of bragging and bragging sowed the seeds of racial and religious intolerance manifested by the machinations of the National Civic Office ( BTN) and the Islamic Development Department (Jakim), and later by any other taxpayer-funded agency.
Between the two, Mahathir made sure that the country will never regain its promising, permanently dimmed future and that what remains of its potential is reduced to the blink of an eye.
So go ahead and groan, not because of wasting every opportunity you Mahathir had to build a great country, but because of your inability to do what your nemesis, former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew, did with such style.
The Wakandan: The take-home revelation from this revelation (from Mahathir) is that the corruption was an orchestration of the government during his administration. That Anwar was able to make a crony very rich, if true, was because it was the government’s policy at the time: to turn Malaysians into millionaires.
Who were these Malays? They were the ones who were lucky enough to be the choice of their leader. In turn, these artificial millionaires created by the government allegedly financed BN, specifically Umno. And this practice also extended to other components of the BN.
Of course, at the same time, the same leaders would choose not only their cronies but also members of their own family, because that is human nature to want their children to get rich.
That is why we see many politicians, the taller they are, the richer they are beyond description. They are like foxes that guard the stables and take the chickens as loot.
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