KUALA LUMPUR – Perikatan Nasional (PN), under the leadership of Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, is developing a big coalition of political parties that will unite the people fairly, justly, inclusively and harmoniously in a new political mould, said Pahang PN chairman Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.
He is also confident that PN has learnt from the weaknesses of Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Harapan (PH) that any decisions made by a coalition should be based on discussion, not dominated by any one party.
“In BN, Umno is the dominant party. BN’s top posts – chairman, deputy chairman, secretary-general, treasurer, women’s head, youth chief, information chief – are held by Umno. In PN, they are shared among its component parties.
“In PH, there was no party that was dominant, but it was in a situation where it was supported by ‘a big majority from a minority group’ and ‘only a small minority from the majority group’, causing it to be short-lived,” he said in a post on his official Facebook page today.
Saifuddin, who is Pahang Bersatu chief, also agrees with the prime minister that the country needs to adopt new politics that are functional, caring and stable.
“Among the characteristics of the new politics is that under a coalition of political parties, there is no one dominant party while smaller parties are marginalised,” he said. – Bernama, April 3, 2021
