December 20, 2011
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Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah upon Victory, Consensual Leadership as good as Reversion to Form
I was not long ago asked to answer a small questions for an Australian headlines programme:
1. Barisan Nasional has won multiform strong victories over a Opposition in a final few weeks, though we have been critical of a small of these. Could we explain why?
It depends what we meant by victory, as good as feat for whom. What happened in Perak not long ago has all a coming of a desperate as good as ill-conceived grab for power, with inherent consequences which have been still being played out.
Barisan Nasional's detriment of renouned await is a genuine issue, so a charge must be to regain support.We unequivocally have mislaid support. Mar 8 was not a freak result. We have had dual by-election losses, both of which were exacerbated by a own members abstaining, or choosing by casting votes for a Oppostion, to have which message drummed in to a celebration leadership.
Victory would be to regain which support, as good as to translate those gains constitutionally in to a stronger presence in a government. It would meant coming to terms with a loyal causes for a detriment of support, as good as addressing those causes with genuine reform. Yet a care has finished zero of a kind over a final year. Instead we celebrate "victories" achieved by tricks as good as shortcuts probable to lose us even more ground with a Malaysian electorate.
These moves mistreat a long-term prospects of UMNO, as good as generally those of Barisan Nasional. However, they may offer possibilities trying to secure their standing within a celebration in perspective of upcoming celebration elections. Weak leaders will ! pass off pyrrhic victories for a genuine thing, rally celebration members in a opposite citation from reform, as good as march them over from a expectations as good as values of a Malaysian electorate.
No celebration can survive long with leaders who have been so ready to sacrifice a viability for short-term as good as short-sighted domestic interests.
2. Some commentators speak of a need for BN and, particularly, UMNO reform, in particular a lapse to a more negotiated character of government. How far would we say UMNO has strayed from this accord building mode of government, as good as how far is such reform necessary?
Consensual care is BN's worth proposition, if we will. If we lose this, we competence as good tighten shop.
The negotiated power-sharing indication which BN used successfully in a past requires a genuine partnership among a leaders of a assorted parties. It takes far more strength as good as capability to come to terms a accord than to carry decisions by numerical prevalence alone. As a widespread partner of this coalition, UMNO has a special shortcoming of care in this process.
It equates to we collect leaders with a capability as good as dignified management to mediate accord as good as hold a moderate, useful centre while maintaining an racial await base. This is something which cannot be finished by weak or tainted leaders.
The accord building indication of supervision requires care shaped in a convention in which a skills as good as relations needed to oversee in this manner have been consciously handed on. But a celebration succession is now dominated by racial champions or celebration warlords with small else to validate them to oversee a plural society with a sophisticated, trade-oriented economy.
There is additionally a structural reason for a incipient breakdown of a consensual model. For a indication to work, any of a vital racial parties must credibly as good as reliably paint a racial base. This is no longer a case. MIC, MCA, ! as good as now possibly UMNO, have any mislaid a majority await of a racial communities they explain to represent. The very raison d'etre of a model, as good as perhaps even of these parties, is at stake.
Nevertheless we still need this indication of consensus-based government, helmed by a Malay care flushed with a sense of duty to Malaysia in all a plurality, East as good as West. The nation still needs capable, centrist leaders who have been additionally genuine leaders of a Malay as good as Muslim community, able to anchor as good as partner a multiracial as good as multi-religious accord for a progressive country. At a outset this equates to a plain commitment to a rule of law which alone guarantees a form of supervision by inherent monarchy as good as a rights as good as freedoms of all Malaysians. Umno is failing to yield this care though this does not meant we do not still need it, as good as need it desperately.
3. Last week, a three contenders for a post of UMNO Youth Chief held a live debate. Do we think these representatives of a future care have been likely to embrace any necessary change?
Their individual annals upon which measure have not desirous hope. None of them has presented a unchanging as good as principled orientation towards reform. Some views voiced in which debate essentially called for reversal to bad old form rsther than than for reform. If a celebration continues upon a present recourse, a subject would be moot.
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