Pribumi....formation for what purpose?

Another political party in Malaysia is formed. It is called Pribumi. This Pribumi is basically Malay based as its membership is only open to Malay race or Bumiputera only.

So with emergence of Pribumi as an additional opposition party in Malaysian politics, the political scenario in Malaysia must be quite lively and noisy. But to many people, the entry of Pribumi into opposition front would not be lively but messy. As presently, in opposition front, there are PKR, DAP, PAN and PAS and very soon it was widely circulated that there would be yet another political party to be set up in Sabah by the former Vice-president of UMNO DS Mohd Shafie Apdal. It would be named as Gerakan Parti Tempatan Sabahan. As its name indicated, it was Sabah based and for Sabahan only.

Pribumi was formed by the former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir . The main objective of the formation of Pribumi by Dr Mahathir was to oust the present Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak after the former had failed several attempts to dethrone the latter. Therefore, with this clear direction, the motto of fairness and freedom long desired by the rakyat are totally out of its manifesto, as the main objective is to seek for personal revenge and retaliation and not for national or people interests.

As the GE 14 is predicted to be held within a year, a party with less than a year of formation, how many seats can Pribumi win? This is an interesting question. How many seats? Generally speaking, It is unlikely for Pribumi to win more than 50 seats to be a leader in the opposition front.

“Once a leader always a leader” is the motto of Dr Mahathir. He only gives orders and does not want to be led or directed and this was why Pribumi was formed. If Mahathir were to join other party, he were to follow and listen and this has not been his style. Hence, here enter the Pribumi into the Malaysia Political scene.

You know, if Mahathir and Muhyiddin Yassin want to be a leader in the opposition and to be very safe and doubly comfortable, Pribumi must win at least 50 parliamentary seats. Do you think Pribumi has the capability and ability to win this controllable number of 50. No, definitely not. Just another simple question. Do any party in the opposition want Pribumi to lead and command the opposition front with these 50 parliamentary seats? No. They are afraid Pribumi win more seats than theirs. Therefore, sabotage, internal bickering and fighting will be rampant among the opposition.

It is predicted that GE14 would be the fierce and keen-contested. Be it the ruling parties or the opposition, at the end of the day, there would not be any outright winner. The results will be close. The number of total parliamentary seats is 222. If both have the number of 111 or more or less equal or within the difference of 10 seats, and Pribumi has 10. What do you think the scenario ? It definitely does not need you to be a Mathematician, you can guess which party has a deciding force to choose who is the PM or otherwise. Of course, It is PRIBUMI. If this is to happen, do you can Najid Tun Razak become PM again? It is because PRIBUMI can decide which party be the ruling government, Mahathir has the deciding number by joining and strengthening the weaker side to help forming the government.

Therefore, with the Pribumi joining the contest in GE14 and Mahathir would like to see BN performs worst than before or the total seats won by BN is about 110 or less that is equivalent the insufficient 10 parliamentary seats won by Pribumi. The figure of 10 is more than enough to sit in the driver seat of opposition for Pribumi. It is Pribumi and Mahathir to decide who is the next Prime Minister.

So don’t underestimate the deciding role to be played by Pribumi.