MUDA has been very damaging to Pakatan
MUDA has been very damaging to Pakatan
It could become personal
With Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA) being virtually ignored, and even given the “run around” by Pakatan Harapan (PH), there is little choice for the movement to come out as a ‘third force’ in the coming state elections.
This move could be devastating for PH, particularly in Selangor where MUDA has some support. Even without MUDA splitting the vote, PKR has a horrendous challenge ahead to hold onto existing seats. MUDA, by creating 3-way contests, will give PN candidates a great advantage. If MUDA stands in seats held by UMNO, there is little chance any will be able to retain their seats.
Any move by MUDA to contest as a ‘third force’ could cost PH-BN the Selangor government. MUDA may also affect the result in Penang as well, by assisting PN win Malay majority seats on the mainland.
Talk Syed Saddiq will team up with Nor Omar. Could the movement turn into something vengeful?
The fault for this predicament lies with PH, which has not invited MUDA to coalition meetings. MUDA applied to join PH before the last general election, but never had any formal reply.
For MUDA, if the party sits out these state elections, where 40% of Malaysians are eligible to vote, the party may cease to exist. MUDA is under immense pressure to contest the state elections, or lose their relevance.
Talk Syed Saddiq was a “Trojan horse” or is this the PH cyber-machine at work?
Quickly deteriorating relationship
MUDA deputy president, Amira Aisya Abdul Aziz has been taking the prime minister Anwar Ibrahim to task for his comments to a female student who asked him about the falling Ringgit. Anwar’s reply to the student appeared condescending at the least, where Amira is asking Anwar to make an apology to the student. This has triggered a social media debate with split views on the issue.
The MUDA and PH relationship is deteriorating quickly. Many within MUDA appear to have been misled by Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari’s comments that seat allocation in Selangor with MUDA is still continuing.
Anwar’s answer to MUDA
The PH leadership still have the March 2022 Johor State election in their memories. MUDA was given 7 seats by PH to contest and could only win one of them. Out of the 6 seats MUDA was allocated in the last general election, only Syed Saddiq was able to hold onto his seat with a slender 1,345 vote majority, over the PAS candidate Abdullah Husin.
Syed Saddiq a lose cannon
UNDI 18 miscalculation
Syed Saddiq was one of the major proponents of the ‘UNDI 18’ movement, which brought the voting age down from 21 to 18. Most pundits believed that this would be greatly advantageous to the PH parties. However, the majority of new voter, who have been schooled in Malaysia’s Islamized-education system voted for the Perikatan Nasional parties because of their non-secular approach to government.
Where MUDA contested, they were not able to pick up much more than 20% of the youth vote. Much of this support for MUDA came from the non-Malay cohort. MUDA’s skilled use of social media, where Syed Saddiq has 1.4 million followers on Twitter, appeared to give presence to Syed Saddiq personally, which didn’t rub off on MUDA. What MUDA doesn’t have are the resources to canvass voters directly within their own electorates.
MUDA didn’t develop into a mass movement
There was early talk about MUDA developing into a mass movement of concerned youths who wanted to make their presence felt in the political arena. This didn’t happen. Policy and issue wise, MUDA didn’t have anything to offer. MUDA doesn’t have a firm policy platform that the youth can aspire to. MUDA failed to deliver what many had hoped for – the youth vote. It went the other way.
Consequently, there is nothing from MUDA that can be synergised with PH. No add-on value.
Anwar, with is Rakan Muda program, recently launched at UKM is a direct affront to the space MUDA was trying to occupy. PH have made their decision long ago, and have moved on.
The coming state elections will be very costly to PH with MUDA acting as a spoiler. However, the state elections will further marginalize MUDA, which may just be totally irrelevant come the next general election.
Originally published in My Sin Chew 26th June 2023
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Syed sadiq has no knowledge or skill to build a political party. His gang have no real vision,policies and programs and neither do they have branches and divisions. Most tend to be sincere to help the community but a wangsa maju team think differently from that of setiawangsa,titiwangsa or taman melawati.
Syed need to sit down and work on this.Otherwise, what a waste of opportunity.
Syed Saddiq,
You can learn a things or two from PAS. Think long term! You are still young and has a long way to go. PAS indoctrinates the rural and urban youths in their formative years. Whereas PH acts more like fly by night operator. Touch and go with its political agenda, which has no lasting influence and impact upon the youths.
Engage with the youth day by day, set up a blog and exchange ideas with them. Appreciate their challenges and hope and fear. Find solutions for their routine problems such as education or employments. Relationship with the opposite sex and so on. Be down to earth. Touch their heart and mind.
Listen to the advice of the ancient sage.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Motivate the youth to read widely and passionately. That's the way to go.
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler (4 Oct 1928- 27 June 2016)
Get yourself educate too by reading these books. From the writings of these authors you will have an in depth appreciation of how far the road ahead of you you have to transverse . Reading these books will do you much good in understanding politics, economy and health and medical tyranny and the host of the lies and misinformation in the main stream media. For a start how about these titles?
1. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley ( November 9, 1910 - January 3, 1977)
2.The truth about Covid19 by Dr Joseph Mercola.
3.Rockefeller Medicine Men by E. Richard Brown
4.Population Control-how corporate owners are killing us
by Jim Marrs
if you absorbed and digest the contents of these books, you will be better off compare to Khairy a much seasoned but naive politician.
Educate your potential voters who may become your MUDA party members some day eventually!
.Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave . Henry Peter Brougham ( 19 Sept 1778-7 May 1868)
If you want to be happy for an hour, go take a nap.
If you want to be happy for a day, go golfing.
If you want to be happy for a month, get married.
If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune.
But if you want to be happy for a lifetime, go educate the people
Giving the youths of this nation real education in learning and reasoning is a new kind of freedom which has never been offered by any politician i have known so far.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sir William Drummond (26 Sept 1769-29 March 1828)
Let me ask a question Syed Saddiq, when you are alone and surrounded by solitude and wonder about your future as to what kind of politician you will be like, remember this truth facing all mortals : after you are long gone, how do you want to be remembered?
How you answer this question will determine what kind of life you conduct yourself as you seek to create a space under the political sunshine .