Mahathir Hadi Awang ganged up to squeeze out non-Malays

Islamic Party Chairman Tan Sri Hadi Awang admitted that in order to ensure that the government remained Muslim-led, he and former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir mobilized enough MPs to change the government , launching the 2020 "Sheraton coup". He said that after the regime change in the 14th general election in 2018, the Barisan Nasional was defeated and the Pakatan Harapan was in power, but the government was no longer led by Muslims, even though Mahathir was the prime minister at the time. He pointed out that he met Mahathir at that time and asked why it happened like this, and the other party also said that he did not expect this to happen. "If Malays and Muslims no longer lead, what will happen? So I told Tun (Mahathir), we lead to unite Muslims and Bumiputera MPs, including non-extremist Chinese and Indians, and gather enough to change Government." He revealed that at the last moment, Umno proposed to only accept Bersatu and PAS, and exclude other non-Malay and Muslim parties, but he said that this would not be enough to change the government, so other non-Muslims were needed Political parties involved. He emphasized that the meeting with the DAP was based on Muslim leadership as the main condition. He said: "We had talks with the Action Party, and the PAS sent 6 people, and the Action Party sent 11 people including (the veteran of the Action Party) Lim Kit Siang, (the director of the Action Party's Legal Bureau) Ramkar Basingh, and (the then secretary-general) Lim Guan Eng. representative." He said that the DAP asked the PAS party to give up the idea of ​​fighting for Islam, because they opposed the "Islamic Criminal Law", and the PAS party could not accept this request, so it could not cooperate with the DAP party. He said: "We insist that we will not give up Islam. This is the principle of our struggle. The demands of the DAP are unacceptable. This is why the DAP and PAS cooperate in different ways, and it is also the reason for our separation." "Sheraton The beginning and end of the coup: In the 14th National General Election of Malaysia in 2018, a total of 222 parliamentary seats and 505 state seats were elected. In terms of parliamentary elections, the Justice Party won 47+1 seats, the Action Party 42 seats, the Bersatu Party 13 seats, and the Amanah Party 11 seats , Warisan Party 8 seats. Umno 54 seats, Land Protection 13 seats, Sarawak People's Party 3 seats, Congress Party 2 seats, Islamic Party 18 seats, Democratic Progressive Party 2 seats, MCA 1 seat, People's Federation 1 seat, United Saudi Arabia 1 seat, Sarawak Democratic Party 1 seat, 1 seat for the Sabah People’s United Party, and 2 seats for independents; as a result, the Hope Alliance, which is composed of the People’s Justice Party, the Democratic Action Party, the Indigenous Unity Party and the National Integrity Party, won a total of 122 seats. Defeated the National Front led by the then Prime Minister Najib, ending UMNO's long-term rule of more than 60 years since independence. The cabinet organized by the Pakatan Harapan includes: Prime Minister Mahathir, Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, Home Affairs Minister Muhyiddin, Defense Minister Mat Sabu, and the Action Party has five ministers besides Lim Guan Eng, namely Minister of Transport Lu Zhaofu, Minister of Origin Guo Suqin, Minister of Communications and Multimedia Gobind Singh, Minister of Human Resources M. Gula and Energy, Science, Technology, Climate Change and Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin. There are also four deputy ministers, namely Zhang Nianqun, Vice Minister of Education, Yang Qiaoshuang, Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Social Development, Liu Zhendong, Deputy Minister of National Defense (appointed member), and Wang Jianmin, Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs. Other Chinese ministers include: Minister of the Prime Minister's Department (Legal Affairs) Liu Weiqiang (Wisitan Party), Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Shen Zhiqiang (Justice Party), and Deputy Minister of Health Li Wencai (Justice Party). Chinese cabinet members accounted for almost one-third. Compared with the previous Barisan Nasional government, it can be said to be the most, especially among the most important finance ministers. After the establishment of the Pakatan Harapan government, it attracted a lot of civil disputes. In the Malay society, it is believed that the number of Chinese ministers is too large, especially that some important ministers such as the Ministry of Finance should not be held by Chinese. It is suspected that this is a government dominated by the Chinese, and the prime minister is just a puppet. However, in the Chinese community, it is pointed out that the Action Party cannot win for the Chinese community what they expect, such as the recognition of the UEC diploma; The date for the handover of the seat was agreed upon, sparking infighting. At the time when the Pakatan Harapan was infighting, Umno and the Islamic Party used this to launch a plan to seize power to incite Malay nationalists' dissatisfaction with the Pakatan Harapan. Come to lead. Hence the so-called "Malay Dignity Conference", which invites domestic Malay political parties to discuss Malay issues. The "Congress on Malay Dignity", jointly organized by the Malay Splendor Center of the University of Malaya and three other universities, namely Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universiti Putra and Sultan Idris Education University, was finally held on 6 October 2019. It was held at the Melawati Stadium in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia on the 1st. The meeting included the main Malay leaders of various departments of the Malaysian Pakatan Harapan government and states. At the conference, then Prime Minister Tun Mahathir attended the conference as the "Malay leader", but Anwar, the chairman of the PKR party who was considered to be Mahathir's successor, did not attend, but the party's acting chairman Azmin Ali did. Attend. Malay political parties from the opposition camp also sent representatives to the conference, including Islamic Party Chairman Hadi Awang, Umno Secretary-General Tan Sri Annuamuddin, and former Youth and Sports Minister Kelly. Discuss various issues of Malay rights, including culture, religion, education, economics and politics. The "Congress on Malay Dignity" touched on some sensitive motions, including the proposal to implement single-stream education, which is considered to have political and racial implications, and the purpose is to expect the formation of a Malay-centric coalition to replace the Pakatan Harapan government. After the rally came the actual action. On February 7, 2020, Hadi Awang, the chairman of the Islamic Party, made a statement, indicating that he agreed in principle to the joint formation of the "National League" government by the ruling and opposition parties. At this time, the Pakatan Harapan government was in trouble because of the handover of the prime minister. After a meeting of more than 3 and a half hours on February 21, the Pakatan Harapan Presidential Council unanimously decided that the date of the handover will be decided by Prime Minister Tun Mahathir. . However, two days later, on February 23, the consensus on the handover of the prime minister changed, and then there was a "Sheraton coup". Both the party and the Sarawak coalition of political parties came to the Sheraton Hotel for meetings one after another. This has led to the rumors of "major events in the political situation", including Azmin will quit the party, or the Bersatu Party will withdraw from the Pakatan Harapan, and form a new ruling coalition. Sri Muhyiddin announced that Bersatu had withdrawn from Harapan. Mahathir also announced his resignation as prime minister and Bersatu chairman; at the same time, PKR also formally dismissed the party's acting chairman Datuk Seri Azmin Ali and deputy chairman Zuraida. On February 25th and 26th, the head of state summoned all members of Congress to know who has the most support from members of parliament to serve as prime minister. On February 27, the candidate for the prime minister was still not determined; on February 28, the leaders of each party reported the number of people who supported the prime minister. On February 29, the palace announced that Muhyiddin had won the support of most members of Congress in this power struggle. On March 1, Muhyiddin was sworn in as the eighth prime minister at the National Palace. Up to this point, Mahathir, who had always thought that with the support of the majority of MPs, could form a coalition government as he wished, suddenly woke up from a dream, and immediately changed his original intention, trying to bring back pro-Anwar MPs to reorganize a new PH government. Against the National Alliance headed by Muhyiddin. After a round of confrontation, Muhyiddin has won the head of state's quasi-organizational government, and Mahathir's side hopes to veto the appointment by calling a parliament. Reluctantly, rice has been cooked. On March 9, Muhyiddin formally formed a new cabinet. For the first time, the cabinet list did not appoint a deputy prime minister. Instead, he appointed four senior ministers to assist in the management of the economy, security, infrastructure development, education and social affairs. The four senior ministers are Azmin Ali who has quit the PKR as the Minister of International Trade and Industry, Ismail Sabri of Umno as the Minister of Defense, Fadillah of the Sarawak Alliance of Political Parties is in charge of the Ministry of Engineering, and the Minister of Education is Mohd Rajkiddin. The four senior ministers have the same status as the Deputy Prime Minister. The only professional who is not a representative of a political party is Tunku Datuk Seri Zafrul, CEO of CIMB Group, who was invited to join the cabinet as Finance Minister. He will later be sworn in as a senator before joining the cabinet. This "coup" has had the greatest impact on the Chinese political parties. Just like the previous budget of the National Front group, they handed over all important cabinet ministers to indigenous people, and only allocated a few unimportant ministerial positions to non-indigenous people. A total of 5 Chinese congressmen were appointed as the ministers and deputy ministers, among which the MCA served as the principal and 3 deputy ministers, the president Dato Sri Wee Ka Siong served as the minister of transportation, and the other 3 deputy ministers were appointed by the party’s acting president Dato’ Ma Hanshun. The First Deputy Minister of Education and Vice President Dato Lim Wan Feng was appointed as the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, and Dato Huang Risheng was appointed as the First Deputy Minister of Primary Industries. The other deputy minister is Dato' Seri Teo Keng Sin from the Sarawak Union as the deputy minister of the Ministry of National Unity (refused to accept because the level of dissatisfaction is lower than that of the minister). Since the regime was replaced, the Pakatan Harapan hoped that by winning the support of a sufficient number of MPs, it would be a challenge to the Perikatan Nasional government. It is a pity that Muhyiddin, who holds the dominant power, has not allowed the parliament to resume normal operation. In the days to come, the Pakatan Harapan is still in the stage of fighting for power. The prime minister position that has been contested since the ruling period has not yet been finalized. This has invisibly intensified the division within the Pakatan Harapan. It was already badly damaged. The hope of the Pakatan Harapan to return to Putrajaya has become increasingly slim. Ordinary ordinary people do not have too much hope for the Perikatan Nasional government, but pin their hopes on holding a snap general election to bring the country back on track again. (Drafted on August 27, 2023)