‘Politics have no relation to morals’

PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (left), Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (middle) and Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali onstage at Dataran Rantau during the party's 20th anniversary celebration in April 2019. - Filepic

THE Machiavellian plot to derail Datuk Seri Azmin Ali’s political ascension has triggered a situation described in an Niccolò Machiavelli quote.

As veteran politician Tan Sri Rais Yatim put it, the police must know who started the ember of the scandal, now that they have grilled Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, the main actor in the sex tryst video allegedly involving Azmin.