Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: On Victory, Consensual Leadership and Reversion to Form

On Victory, Consensual Leadership and Reversion to Form

December 20, 2011

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Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah upon Victory, Consensual Leadership as well as Reversion to Form

I was not long ago asked to answer a little questions for an Australian headlines programme:

1. Barisan Nasional has won several strong victories over a Opposition in a final few weeks, though you have been vicious of a little of these. Could you explain why?

It depends what you meant by victory, as well as feat for whom. What happened in Perak not long ago has all a appearance of a unfortunate as well as ill-conceived squeeze 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 task contingency be to recover support.We really have mislaid support. March 8 was not a freak result. We have had two by-election losses, both of which were exacerbated by a own members abstaining, or voting for a Oppostion, to have which summary drummed in to a celebration leadership.

Victory would be to recover which support, as well as to interpret those gains constitutionally in to a stronger participation in a government. It would meant coming to conditions with a loyal causes for a detriment of support, as well as addressing those causes with genuine reform. Yet a care has finished zero of a kind over a final year. Instead you applaud "victories" completed by tricks as well as shortcuts liable to remove us even some-more belligerent with a Malaysian electorate.

These moves mistreat a long-term prospects of UMNO, as well as generally those of Barisan Nasional. However, they may serve candidates trying to secure their station within a celebration in perspective of upcoming celebration elections. Weak leaders will pass of! f pyrrhi c victories for a genuine thing, convene celebration members in a conflicting direction from reform, as well as impetus them over from a expectations as well as values of a Malaysian electorate.

No celebration can survive long with leaders who have been so ready to scapegoat a viability for short-term as well as short-sighted political interests.

2. Some commentators speak of a need for BN and, particularly, UMNO reform, in sold a return to a some-more negotiated style of government. How far would you say UMNO has strayed from this accord building mode of government, as well as how far is such remodel necessary?

Consensual care is BN's value proposition, if you will. If you remove this, you might as well tighten shop.

The negotiated power-sharing indication which BN used successfully in a past requires a genuine partnership between a leaders of a assorted parties. It takes far some-more strength as well as ability to negotiate a accord than to lift decisions by numerical prevalence alone. As a dominant partner of this coalition, UMNO has a special shortcoming of care in this process.

It means you collect leaders with a ability as well as moral management to mediate accord as well as hold a moderate, useful centre while progressing an racial await base. This is something which cannot be finished by diseased or sinister leaders.

The accord building indication of supervision requires care shaped in a tradition in which a skills as well as relationships indispensable to oversee in this manner have been consciously handed on. But a celebration succession is right away dominated by racial champions or celebration warlords with little 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 contingency credibly as well as reliably represent a racial base. This is no longe! r a case . MIC, MCA, as well as right away possibly UMNO, have any mislaid a infancy await of a racial communities they explain to represent. The very raison d'etre of a model, as well as perhaps even of these parties, is during stake.

Nevertheless you still need this indication of consensus-based government, helmed by a Malay care imbued with a sense of avocation to Malaysia in all a plurality, East as well as West. The nation still needs capable, centrist leaders who have been additionally genuine leaders of a Malay as well as Muslim community, means to anchor as well as partner a multiracial as well as multi-religious accord for a on-going country. At a outset this means a solid joining to a order of law which alone guarantees a form of supervision by inherent kingdom as well as a rights as well as freedoms of all Malaysians. Umno is failing to yield this care though this does not meant you don't still need it, as well as need it desperately.

3. Last week, a 3 contenders for a post of UMNO Youth Chief held a live debate. Do you think these member of a future care have been expected to embrace any required change?

Their particular annals upon which score have not desirous hope. None of them has presented a unchanging as well as scrupulous orientation towards reform. Some views expressed in which debate essentially called for reversion to bad old form rather than for reform. If a celebration continues upon a present recourse, a subject would be moot.