A surgical strike too far?

Fractured: Muhyiddin (left) and his party have taken the very decisive step of sacking 17 members, including the perceived ‘leader of the opposition’ within Bersatu, Hamzah. — Filepics/The Star

BERSATU president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has finally laid down the scalpel, having performed the radical political surgery he deemed necessary to preserve his authority over his party. The diagnosis he delivered to the party was absolute: a spreading malignancy identified as Team Hamzah.

To Muhyiddin, this faction was no longer just a dissenting voice; it was an immense threat – a cancerous growth that had developed its own DNA, and that was operating independently of the party’s central nervous system.