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Letter – Anwar’s rise to PM can be a reality – J. D. Lovrenciear

PKR president needs to reinvent himself, exude capacity as political maverick

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 25 Apr 2022 2:41PM

Letter – Anwar’s rise to PM can be a reality – J. D. Lovrenciear
With Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the victor, Malaysians can then look forward to a whole new line-up of vibrant, new blood being garnered for the succession planning, post-GE15, writes J.D. Lovrenciear. – The Vibes file pic, April 25, 2022

FINDINGS of a recent research conducted by research centre Endeavour-MGC cannot be dismissed lightly. 

The survey recorded Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim receiving 21% of support from 1,068 respondents on leaders favoured to be Malaysia’s next prime minister. 

All other candidates scored far below Anwar with a convicted felon fighting an appeal registering 18% votes as choice prime minister. 

Clearly, the survey singles out that Malaysians essentially have two choices before them. 

It has to be Anwar or Datuk Seri Najib Razak – going by the sampling. 

When the going gets tough, the tough will get going. If this idiom is worth its salt, Malaysians must take the right action. 

You cannot have a PM-candidate whose name is soiled and dented in the global arena, can you? The fact is no amount of saving grace can remove the damage done to nationhood. 

That leaves only Anwar as the next best salvation that can come to a country that has lost much in terms of reputation, economic steam, social happiness and a badly beaten up political landscape. 

Therefore, Anwar, you need to rise and rise now. 

Bring the fire out. Walk the most remote paths where the Malay soul beats loud. 

We need to think nation-before-party in this coming general election. We need to pin our hopes on leadership and not popularity. 

And Anwar, you must showcase your determined, uncompromised, resolute will and honest desire to take the baton and sprint to bring this nation out of its pits. 

If Anwar can walk the plank despite the landmines and grenades that will be hurled in his path, the people must rise to the battlefront with Anwar, unashamedly. 

With Anwar as the victor, Malaysians can then look forward to a whole new line-up of vibrant, new blood being garnered for the succession planning, post-GE15. 

So we need to hear Anwar more. See him more. Feel his presence more intensely. 

In summary, Anwar needs to re-invent himself as the people’s prime minister and political maverick now. – The Vibes, April 25, 2022

J.D. Lovrenciear reads The Vibes

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