PAKATAN Harapan (PH) may have won the race to Putrajaya but it is one that left it battered, bruised and facing a reality check.
The country is split between PH’s style of inclusive multiracial politics with that of Perikatan Nasional’s more mono-ethnic administration (despite the latter comprising non-Malay representation in Gerakan).
Former PH Youth chief Howard Lee feels that it is now time to cool temperatures and heed the king’s wish for a unity government.
The newly minted DAP MP for Ipoh Timur discusses if this means that his party is again the one that makes the most concessions.
“We made concessions in Perak for the bigger picture,” he says during the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly podcast with PETRA News chief executive Datuk Zainul Arifin Mohammed Isa and editor-in-chief Terence Fernandez.
With DAP leaders apologising to Sarawak for past statements during the former’s time in government, Lee said the election results, which have seen no party win a simple majority is a harbinger of things to come where political parties need to look beyond partisan lines for the nation to survive.
“We need to take the route of reconciliation and common ground among those who agreed to this unity government and then reach out to the other side.
The guns are still out on the other side.
With regard to the unity government where the likes of Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is facing corruption charges, Lee said: “The response to that would be the alternative is worse.”
For more of this conversation tune in to The Vibes Podio at on.soundcloud.com/Fje58 and Spotify. – The Vibes, November 26, 2022
Presented by PETRA News chief executive Datuk Zainul Ariffin Mohammed Isa and editor-in-chief Terence Fernandez
Produced by Shazmin Shamsuddin and sound engineered by Ethan Phoon
