By Saturday the coup was underway – the tactic? To prise Dr Mahathir and his small Bersatu party away from the ruling coalition he had been elected by a majority to lead and into a new coalition comprising all the crooks and kleptocrats they had been elected to bring to justice. Talk of the new alignment had been cooked up one way or another for several weeks with statutory declarations lined up and all the rest, as exposed by Sarawak Report.
Now for action. A pre-planned meeting by Anwar with the Agong due this Monday afternoon was the tool used by Azmin to set up anger and concern in Bersatu. Their party meeting on Sunday morning was treated to the shocking information that Anwar was moving to mobilise his ‘numbers’ among MPs and would be telling the Agong Monday that their boss was toast.
Of course, many were willing to believe it. Mahathir sat silent, troubled. His son Mukhriz reportedly argued caution, but others were riled into fury at the ‘betrayal’. Meanwhile, Azmin had set up his own camp minutes away at the Sheraton Hotel (he managed to get some 7 PKR MPs to show up) and was busily briefing media behind doors that dual announcements were pending to herald a new coalition to take over the government.
This would be a coalition based on an honourable desire to shore up the prime minister and let him rule for as long as he desires, Azmin and his men assured. But it would exclude DAP and it would rule out Anwar succeeding as PM.
The innocence of the project was emphasised by a ‘Unity Dinner’ that had been meanwhile organised at the same hotel, ostensibly to allow MPs of all parties to demonstrate their loyalty to the prime minister – what harm in that, since only Friday the ruling coalition had done the same? Some 130 MPs turned up, including the whole of Sabah Warisan and Sarawak GPS flown in for the weekend show – some plot.
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Now for action. A pre-planned meeting by Anwar with the Agong due this Monday afternoon was the tool used by Azmin to set up anger and concern in Bersatu. Their party meeting on Sunday morning was treated to the shocking information that Anwar was moving to mobilise his ‘numbers’ among MPs and would be telling the Agong Monday that their boss was toast.
Of course, many were willing to believe it. Mahathir sat silent, troubled. His son Mukhriz reportedly argued caution, but others were riled into fury at the ‘betrayal’. Meanwhile, Azmin had set up his own camp minutes away at the Sheraton Hotel (he managed to get some 7 PKR MPs to show up) and was busily briefing media behind doors that dual announcements were pending to herald a new coalition to take over the government.
This would be a coalition based on an honourable desire to shore up the prime minister and let him rule for as long as he desires, Azmin and his men assured. But it would exclude DAP and it would rule out Anwar succeeding as PM.
The innocence of the project was emphasised by a ‘Unity Dinner’ that had been meanwhile organised at the same hotel, ostensibly to allow MPs of all parties to demonstrate their loyalty to the prime minister – what harm in that, since only Friday the ruling coalition had done the same? Some 130 MPs turned up, including the whole of Sabah Warisan and Sarawak GPS flown in for the weekend show – some plot.
More at https://tinyurI.com/vwhykav
