{"id":10142,"date":"2023-11-11T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2023-11-11T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:16:38","slug":"malaysian-election-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=10142","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian election decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Tim Newton<br\/>Don\u2019t be beneath any illusion what has just happened in Malaysia. The nation hasn\u2019t been free of the bonds of a corrupt and draconian long-term government and about to soar into a new period of democracy, development and prosperity.<br\/>That a 92 12 months old former premier, who nurtured both his current deputy Anwar Ibrahim and the ousted PM Nazib Razak, can win an election is more an indication of the country\u2019s problems than a prospect of new hope.<br\/>The present Malaysia, together with its political corruption and ethnic tensions, is as a lot Mahathir Mohamad\u2019s fault as anyone else\u2019s. His driving into historical past as the saviour of modern Malaysian politics is proof that Malaysians have a really quick memory. Or perhaps they have been simply THAT determined to do away with Najib Razak, who by no means fairly shook the stain of the IMDB corruption scandal.<br\/>A quick historical past. Anwar Ibrahim was Malaysia\u2019s deputy PM and finance minister who has been credited, and lauded, for steering Malaysia via the 1997 asian monetary crisis. In 1998 Newsweek magazine named Anwar the \u201cAsian of the Year\u201d however later that 12 months things grew to become very prickly between Anwar and Mahathir just before the UMNO General Assembly. (UMNO was the principle get together in the Barisan Nasional coalition that held sway in Malaysian politics for six many years.)<br\/>\u201cAt  <a href=\"http:\/\/culinarycrafterspro.xyz\">Lifetime<\/a> , a e-book, \u201c50 Reasons Why Anwar Cannot Become Prime Minister\u201d, was circulated containing graphic allegations of homosexuality, in addition to accusations of corruption against Anwar. The e-book was written by Khalid Jafri, an ex-editor of the government-controlled newspaper Utusan Malaysia. Anwar obtained a courtroom injunction to prevent further distribution of the guide and filed a lawsuit in opposition to the writer for defamation. Police charged the writer of the book with malicious publishing of false information. The police were instructed to investigate the veracity of the claims.\u201d<br\/><br\/>He ended being tried in 1998 in what has internationally described as a \u2018political fix up\u2019. What was actually happening behind these dramatic and salacious allegations? Anwar was pushing for a polite and respectful transition into the highest job however Mahathir (who had already been Malaysia\u2019s PM for 17 years at this stage) would don&#8217;t have anything of it and threw his deputy beneath the political bus.<br\/>Mahathir isn\u2019t the model new start that Malaysia craves and desires. Neither is the battered and bruised Anwar, who at 70 years of age, has born the brunt of the excesses of brute pressure and political expediency of his former, and now current, Prime Minister. He has a lot of past political baggage.<br\/>At this stage a royal pardon has been sought and, reportedly, granted, to launch Anwar from jail. Anwar would nonetheless need to contest a parliamentary by-election (which he would easily win) and then, THEN, his former mentor\/foe\/friend\/conspirator-to-topple-Najib has to step apart and allow Anwar to be the Malaysian PM.<br\/>This lengthy political saga is a good distance from being over however no one ought to imagine that this is anything apart from an influence seize by an ageing \u2018disruptor\u2019 and political expediency-over-integrity for Anwar..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tim NewtonDon\u2019t be beneath any illusion what has just happened in Malaysia. The nation hasn\u2019t been free of the bonds of a corrupt and draconian long-term government and about to soar into a new period of democracy, development and prosperity.That a 92 12 months old former premier, who nurtured both his current deputy Anwar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}