Malay War?

There is currently a war amongst the Malays, a political war that is, but with PAS standing by the sideline waiting to be dedak-ised and to join the winning side.

It is the BIGGEST war amongst Malays since Hang Tuah fought with Hang Jebat in the 15th Century. This time the royals are not directly involved though I can make an intelligent guess who they would be rooting for.

OTOH, some say that 13th Century war has still been going on until today.

The cause for the current phase?

Maddy currently stands on shaky grounds with only 13 Pribumi MPs (as many as midget Amanah's 11). Most of his Pribumi MPs have been force-laboured into becoming ministers, wakakaka, because in his Kingdom (currently) of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man or Woman is king.

Thus you get an unknown politician like Rina Harun becoming the powerful Minister of Rural and Regional Development with wealthy GLCs under her, a young chico becoming Sports-Min and a last minute recruit, Maszlee being made Edu-Min because the public outcry against Maddy holding two ministries forced the old fox into having what seems to be a puppet on a string in a very important ministry.

anyone knows her?

Why not made Dr Bari (DAP, currently an ADUN in Perak), who is an education expert, a senator and Edu-Min?

No, that would have made the DAP far too powerful. Has that been the reason Maddy also created a new ministry of Economics to dilute the Finance Ministry's powers. The Econs-Min gets the majority of rich GLCs with him being chair of the powerful Kahzanah. See my post Has Mahathir limited Finance Minister's powers because he's Chinese?.

With that old fox, you can never be sure except that he is always up to 'something'.

No doubt his principal support comes from the DAP but alas, a party which is mainly 'non'-dominated and thus not 'desirable' unless absolutely necessary, because to control politics in Malaysia, Malay support is not just necessary but absolutely vital. Ethnic-wise stuff like this has not only to be done but also to be seen.

As for PKR, his support from this party at best would only be around 50% but conditional upon the help of his nephew, Azmin Ali - perhaps a bit more if Azmin comes to power. But like him, Azmin has a way of working in unexpected ways, usually for his own lonesome self, wakakaka.

hmmm, now who shall I kowtim next?

wakakaka

Maddy knows Anwar Ibrahim is waiting in the wing, rather impatiently due to a combination of decades of political frustration, lust for political power, personal grievance and grudge, a sense of suffering from injustice since 1999 and that alter ego of Malay (so-called) loyalty, to wit, Malay vengeance (dendam).

But alas, PKR is itself steeped in the turmoil of internecine warfare between the Pandan Cats and the Dökkálfar Dwarfs. Soon the official result of who becomes deputy party president will emerge but also soon immediately after that the unofficial internecine warfare continues a la guérilla.

dwarfs above, cats below

Thus PKR as a party will either be weakened when a considerable number of its members including MPs and ADUNs move across to Pribumi, or alternatively it becomes stronger as the opposition within the party is kowtim-ed kaukau including dedak-isation (although it won't stop a few migrating to Ketuanan Pribumi due to their untenable situations).

Nonetheless, Maddy can't be assured of 100% Malay support from PKR.

In the meantime, contrary to his earlier pompous policy, Maddy recruits-invites UMNO people to become his pet frogs before Anwar Ibrahim does likewise.

Mahathir's henchmen have shown their dis-coordination as one boasted of 40 'thieves' emerging from their cavern to Maddy's 'Open Sesame', whilst another went into 'Ops Salvage' as he (out of the blue) made known that UMNO members will not be accepted unless they are 'clean'.

For more, see:

(a) Bernama - PH will not accept UMNO - Dr Mahathir,

(b) MM Online's Kadir Jasin: 40 Umno MPs met Dr M, may join PPBM, and

(c) Star Online's Bersatu will only accept ex-Umno members who are clean says Marzuki.

Apart from Maddy's pomposity to capati, pray tell us what is meant by 'clean' in the UMNO (and even Pribumi or PKR) context?

Yessir, Maddy will tell you he is 'clean' as will Daim Zainuddin, Muhyiddin, Anwar Ibrahim, Azmin Ali, Najib Razak, Ahmad Zahid, etc.

By the way, all above names are from UMNO, bred in UMNO's nest and nurtured on UMNO's breasts.

Rumours, and Malaysia has many, tell us Maddy is currently on 'Ops Pecahkan UMNO' for obvious reason, to rebuild the broken pieces of his former party into an UMNO yang most Baru. Let's say Maddy is in a bit of rush.

Sadly, I suspect some (or at least one) in the DAP is helping Mahathir in that operations.