Searching for an opportunistic pact


PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang

IT looks like Malaysian politics is increasingly about forming alliances simply to gain power to become prime minister and ministers.

The cliche that there are no permanent enemies or friends in politics is simply a euphemism for discarding principles and honour, and merely being opportunists.

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