Distance doesn’t make the heart grow fonder


WE are living in very dangerous times. This is the direct result of GE15, which did not give any political coalition a clear majority. In the end, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim did prevail to finally become our 10th Prime Minister by getting Barisan Nasional to join forces with Pakatan Harapan and set up his so-called unity government.

But that really wasn’t the end, because those who are now relegated to the opposition bench in Parliament – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s Perikatan Nasional-cum-PAS – have never accepted gracefully that they lost the general election. So they have never stopped trying to undermine and even topple the current government, as PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang openly stated.

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