{"id":2614,"date":"2008-11-12T23:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/11\/12\/anyone-can-be-pm-says-mahathir\/"},"modified":"2008-11-12T23:15:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:15:41","slug":"anyone-can-be-pm-says-mahathir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/11\/12\/anyone-can-be-pm-says-mahathir\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone can be PM says Mahathir"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, we have to agree that anyone can be a PM<\/a> because Mahathir himself is a living proof. In fact, I have mentioned that all our PMs are of mixed ancestry<\/a>. None of them are actually pure Malay (if got such a thing).<\/p>\n

But he is smart enough to highlight that the person must command the majority of the house (Dewan Rakyat). In current scenario, its only UMNO because they conquered most of the seats. So, in order to change the PM, another party must take over. For sure MIC, MCA, etc. are out of the question. In fact any other BN coalition member cannot be considered because among them, UMNO stands in most seats. So, that leaves us with the opposition coalition – which because it consists of only 3 parties – are quiet evenly represented. Thus any leader from PKR, DAP or PAS can be Prime Minister if they win the next elections or manage to command majority support from current MPs.<\/p>\n

Thus it is clear that under BN, a non-Muslim can never be a PM unless UMNO changes its membership rule.<\/p>\n

Under PR, PAS has firmly said that it would only support a Muslim Malay for PM post if the PR takes over the government. Thus, its very difficult for PKR and DAP to go for it by themselves and take over the government.<\/p>\n

So, when can we see a change? When the rakyat can accept the idea. We cannot depend on politicians because once they sense the rakyat are changing, these politicians will do anything and everything to cling on to their powers.<\/p>\n

It does not matter if the Prime Minister is Malay or non-Malay, as long as he enjoys the trust of all Malaysians.<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said there was no
\nspecification in the country that a Prime Minister must be a Malay.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when you talk about having a non-Malay as a PM, you are being
\nracist yourself because you shouldn\u2019t ask the question if one is Malay
\nor non-Malay.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he is acceptable to all Malaysians, yes, he
\ncan become PM. The specification is that he must be the leader of a
\nmajority party and if he can be such a leader of that majority party.
\nDon\u2019t ask if he is Malay, Chinese or Indians,\u201d he told reporters after
\ndelivering a keynote address on \u201cBangsa Malaysia\u201d at the Perdana
\nLeadership Foundation on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, we have to agree that anyone can be a PM because Mahathir himself is a living proof. In fact, I have mentioned that all our PMs are of mixed ancestry. None of them are actually pure Malay (if got such a thing). But he is smart enough to highlight that the person must command […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,225],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}