Please
enhance the Rakyat on the news that's being currently viralled in the social
media that the UMNO leadership at its recent Supreme Council meeting has urged
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to seek an audience with the Yang
di-Pertuan Agong for royal assent to dissolve Parliament to pave the way for
the 15th general election.
But
according to the same news report, a majority of Supreme Council members
including Ismail Sabri and another party vice president voted against the move
initiated by UMNO President Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Since UMNO has so far not issued a denial on
the report, it is logical to conclude that the UMNO leadership had indeed taken
such a move and this is most depressing news to the nation and the Rakyat.
It
once again shows the damage that politicians could do to satisfy their selfish
agenda and that they are the least concerned about the ensuing political uncertainty
and instability that could result from their actions. If our Members of Parliament do care to pause
for a moment and reflect on the oath of office they had taken as lawmakers,
they certainly would realize how they have betrayed the trust and the mandate
that the electorate had delivered. As
lawmakers, the least that the rakyat expect them to do is to act responsibly
instead of creating instability that at the end of the day, the entire nation
would have to pay a high price in terms of the social and economic costs.
Already,
Malaysia is fast losing out our once enviable position as an attractive country
for foreign investors to other Asean partners like Vietnam and Indonesia. These
past three years that saw Malaysia having four prime ministers shows the
political pandemic that we are in.
On
another score, I am of the opinion that the Malaysian Parliament is currently
loaded with many MPs who have overstayed and in this regard, parties to which
they belong to should make a conscious commitment to replace them with fresh
faces come to the next general election. As
for GE15, with the Covid-19 still very much threatening both lives and
livelihoods, I urge the Prime Minister to reject any move by the UMNO
leadership towards a snap general election.
I
have full confidence that he would do so in the national interest.
“HUMBLENESS IS A GOOD VIRTUE,
ARROGANCE SHALL FALL AND THE MEEK WILL RULE THE WORLD”.
Tan Sri Datuk Robert Phang
Miow Sin.
Justice of the Peace.
