Rafizi must maintain cabinet solidarity or resign
Anwar can’t afford a rat in the pack
Collective Cabinet responsibility is a constitutional convention in parliamentary systems, where members of the cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them.
This almost certainly includes not leaking government information to others, which may allow for that information to become public knowledge, and/or identify either directly or indirectly the cabinet minister who disagrees with a government action, decision, or policy.
Its become quite evident that there is already one senior minister who is doing just that. Leaking information, he doesn’t agree with. This information is almost freely flowing through some of the close knit Whatsapps groups around the nation.
We can see that Rafizi Ramli is being side-lined in Anwar’s administration. We can also see that Anwar and Rafizi’s rift is affecting government. This is definitely making Anwar’s job as prime minister much harder.
Rafizi must either put up, or shut up, and tow the government line. This is disloyalty in the extreme and must stop.
Public enemy No. 1 for MSMEs
On another matter, Rafizi’s menu Rahmah scheme is hurting MSMEs. In a recent report in Malaysia Now, burger stalls say they cannot compete with the cheaper meals offered by the major branded industry players.
Rafizi’s Menu Rahmah scheme was meant to provide affordable meals for those struggling with the cost of living. The scheme is being taken up by major fast-food chains and retailers.
However, independent restaurants, food stalls, and petty traders selling food are seeing their incomes drying up, as the fast-food branded food at cheap prices is dragging their customers away.
Almost 15,000 major branded outlets now offer Menu Rahmah. This is spelling a disaster for MSMEs. Walk around stalls in Gombak, Setapak, Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Shah Alam, and Titiwangsa, and you will hear stalls complain of this.
This has been a bonanza for McDonald’s, Marrybrown, Burger King, and A&W, at the cost of small local businesses who are still recovering from the Covid MCOs where they had to drain their savings and go into debt.
Now Menu Rahmah is the new pandemic for MSMES.
Some talked of Rafizi being potential prime minister material in the future. He is now a headache to the prime minister, and enemy of MSMEs. Nobody wants a prime minister who can’t be loyal and who hurts the people, he claims to help.
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I concur with most of your observations on the effect of the so-called Rahmah scheme. But why is it Rafizi alone who is getting the brickbats. Why not Salahuddin, the Minister who is responsible for, and who has most enthusiastically been promoting the scheme to all and sundry? Why not the cabinet? Surely the scheme must have received the latter's approval. Why are they not made answerable too? So much for "Collective Cabinet responsibility".
Re: Rafizi being a rather naughty guy in the cabinet, I think, being quite young and straight away becoming a full minister, he needs time to adjust and mature! I think he's still PM material. He's bright and analytical. He just needs to top that up with some people-handling intelligence.
Let him go through the mill for a term. Then he will be more prepared for the top job.
Future PM? Pardon me... this scum is daily talking B20 and non sensible matters... what and how is he driving the economy of the country as a minister! More like gaji buta... did he explain on his company with that much money? Hahahaha...