SHAH ALAM – The downfall of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government was its own undoing; a fate untenable ever since the coalition its maiden electoral victory in the previous 14th General Election (GE14).
This was the view of Datuk Seri Mohamad Azmin Ali -- a supreme council member of Pribumi Bersatu which was one of the former component party in PH before exiting the coalition on February 24, 2020.
The death knell for PH, claimed Azmin in an interview with Awani's Agenda yesterday, started tolling when the coalition failed to meet the aspirations of the people after being given the mandate by the pople to govern Malaysia post GE14.
"For example, there were eight Cabinet Ministers of PH whom had urged the then-Prime Minister (Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad) to change the Secretary-Generals form some eight ministries.
"Tun Dr Mahathir disagreed with such insistence. Why would the new government want to fight with members of the civil service?
"Members of the civil service are not involved in political parties, they are in their respective ministries to implement the policies drafted by the government?” he remarked.
The incumbent Gombak MP also added that a lot allocation for development were heavily slashed resulting many in the country to feel depressed and such ill-felling grew more intense against the backdrop of PH's outrageous and harsh statements.
After a tumultous political roller coaster ride, Azmin believed that Malaysians were now tired as their trust had already been crushed by politicians, especially those of PH which had enjoyed much of their support in GE14.
On a question regarding him being sloganed as a traitor -- due to him defecting from PKR for Pribumi Bersatu on February 23, 2020 --, Azmin retorted that those who called him so were politically bankrupt.
"It is unlikely that the people can be fooled by the notion that my group and I are traitors whereas the real traitors are those who engineered by-election in Kajang.
"Why do they never focus much on the Kajang Move, the Port Dickson Move but needled on the Sheraton Move?
"The Kajang Move is an absolute betrayal because the state assemblyman there at that time is still serving his constituents,” Azmin retored.