KUALA LUMPUR: Perikatan Nasional (PN) members of parliament (MPs) face a tall order when the 15th Parliament meets next week.
Top most on their mind will likely be whether they support, abstain or oppose the vote of confidence on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia, said veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang.
"It will be asking PN MPs to do a very tall job to put nation before party, coalition and self to support the vote of confidence in Anwar as the 10th prime minister in Parliament on Tuesday to ensure that there is clean, transparent, responsible and stable political ecosystem in Malaysia, which is the PN manifesto for the 15th General Election," he said in a statement today.
The first thing that Anwar is doing as the 10th prime minister, he said, was to seek a vote of confidence in Parliament, emulating the third prime minister, Tun Hussein Onn, in 1976.
Lim said this was in contrast to the 8th prime minister Tan Sri .Muhyiddin Yassin, who did everything possible to avoid a vote of confidence in the Dewan Rakyat, to the extent of illegally and unconstitutionally suspending Parliament.
"Where was the MP when Parliament was illegally and unconstitutionally suspended in 2021 but who now claimed that Malaysia is heading towards a dictatorship if there is a vote of confidence on the prime minister in Parliament on Tuesday?
"The MP concerned was then enjoying the perks and privileges of a deputy minister to bother about any vote of confidence in Parliament!"
The former Iskandar Puteri MP, however, did not reveal who the federal lawmaker in question is.
The former DAP secretary-general said the least to expect of a respectable and honourable political coalition was to abstain in the vote of confidence in Parliament, but this was an equally tall order.
"The opposition strength of PN MPs to the vote of confidence motion in Parliament will be a reflection of the tenacity of efforts to create a Sheraton Move 2 scenario to topple the legitimate Anwar' sgovernment to bring about a third 'backdoor' government in Malaysian history," he said.
He claimed that there was no doubt that PN leaders were doing their utmost to bring about a Sheraton Move 2, and they were talking in terms of months instead of years.
Lim said this was the reason that they were so dead set against the unity government and the second Memorandum of Agreement (MoA), which could not only usher in a period of political stability, but assure a five-year tenure for Anwar as prime minister.
The MoA is also the basis for Malaysia to stop its national decline and to become a world-class nation again before Malaysia's Centennial.
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