It's Just Politics

While commenting on the latest rumour of a plot to topple the government, an Opposition party member shares his thoughts about issues that need to be urgently addressed by the current administration.

From a PM who’s resolute about fighting on, to a veteran politician who might have been stirred into action by recent strikes against him, 2024 is set to be a turbulent year for politics in the country.

Campaigning for Indonesia’s 2024 presidential elections has begun and already the shadow of the popular current leader is having an effect.

I’M a Kadazandusun from Sabah. If I were a Member of Parliament and, in the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s judgement, I had the support of my peers in the Dewan Rakyat, I still couldn’t become prime minister – if Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal has his way.

“WERE you at the Anwar event in Donggongon?” a Sabah politician asked me while we were having lunch at one of the best Chinese restaurants in Kota Kinabalu on Friday.

How fares one of the main parties of the Opposition coalition now?

A long-vacant ministerial post will be filled. Will the naming of the new minister come with movements in the Cabinet?

A government official gets into hot water, supposedly heated up by people out to get him.

The new style in Malaysian politics is to declare support for your party’s enemy while not actually leaving your party.

Not everything in Malaysia should revolve around politics, especially not education or even Palestinian solidarity.

A Javanese political wayang kulit finally unveiled itself on Monday when the Constitution Court ruled that the 40-year-old minimum age for Indonesian presidential and vice-presidential candidates did not apply to anyone who is an elected regional leader.

The Opposition will have to break out of the mould it set for itself if it ever wants to form the government one day.