The big secret is out. Apparently 138 MPs (Member of Parliament) have signed statutory declarations (SD) for Mahathir Mohamad to serve a 5-year full term as Prime Minister of Malaysia. And since the news came from “The Star”, an English-language newspaper established in 1971, it must be true. There was a nice infographic attached to that piece of explosive news.
Hours later, that sexy infographic was gone. While the news remains, the infographic which summarised how the massive 138 figure was derived is no longer available. The newspaper can remove the image but they can’t delete the news because it had gone viral. Thanks to the stunning news, every news blog, including pro-opposition websites had screen captured the infographic.
The Star newspaper, which is owned by MCA (43.1% stake), one of the remaining three component parties in Barisan Nasional coalition government defeated in the May 2018 general election, has obviously screwed up spectacularly. In its haste to capitalize on Sarawak Report’s revelation about a so-called SD campaign to support Mahathir, the news media didn’t check any facts or figures.
In fact, the editor of the newspaper has failed one of four basic mathematical operation – addition. If you look at the infographic, the summary screams “138 MPs” have signed the SD for PM Mahathir to stay full term. The number 138 came from Pakatan Harapan coalition government (63 MPs), Pakatan-friendly parties (10 MPs), oppositions PAS (18 MPs) and Barisan Nasional (39 MPs).
Everything looked incredibly juicy until you pull out a calculator – the result of 63 + 10 + 18 + 39 is not equal to 138. The answer is only 130. But the fun didn’t end there. It further calculated that the 63 MPs from ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government came from 26 PKR MPs and 26 Bersatu MPs, while “0” MP from Amanah and “NA” MP from DAP supported Mahathir.
Exactly what is the difference between “0” and “NA” is quite a mystery that not even Einstein could solve. But 26 + 26 is not equal to 63. Even a hamster can tell you within a split second that the answer to that sophisticated math question is 52. So, the newspaper did not only cook up the total number of MPs who had allegedly signed the SD, it also inflated the numbers from PH itself.
According to the calculator, the total MPs is only 119 (52 + 10 + 18 + 39). The number appears to be sufficient to form a simple-majority government in the 222-seat Parliament (which requires minimum 112 MPs), until one take a hard look at the 26 MPs from Mahathir’s party Bersatu (PPBM) and the 26 MPs from PM-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim’s party PKR.
It’s quite hilarious that opposition MCA party forgotten that they had successfully snatched the Tanjung Piai parliamentary seat from Mahathir’s party in November last year. After the humiliating defeat, where Bersatu (PPBM) lost by a whopping 15,000-majority vote, the party is left with only 25 MPs (not 26 MPs). So the total of MPs who had allegedly signed the SD is down to 118.
In the same breath, it’s also jaw-dropping to claim that 39 MPs from opposition Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition had thrown their support behind a sitting prime minister. Clearly, the number 39 came from all the UMNO MPs. Does this mean oppositions MCA’s 2 MPs and MIC’s 1 MP have chosen to remain neutral over the plan to keep Mahathir as premier until 2023?
More importantly, does it make sense that Najib Razak and his minions in UMNO joined the bandwagon, agreeing that Mahathir is to be protected at all cost? It’s both strange and amusing that Najib is so eager and determined to go to prison that he quickly signed the SD in order to facilitate Mahathir’s mission. Interestingly, MCA’s The Star contradicts with pro-opposition blogs.
The oppositions – UMNO, PAS and MCA – should make up their mind who actually controls UMNO now. So far only PAS Islamist party is obsessed with its own bizarre plan to move a “vote of confidence” in favour of Mahathir’s leadership. It was partly a strategy to divert attention after a bunch of fake holy men were exposed of having purchased 14 Mercedes-Benz and collected RM50,000 bonus for themselves.
UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s secret plan to persuade party warlords to follow PAS’ plan, hoping that the prime minister will drop his 87 criminal charges, has failed. Pro-opposition blog suggested that Najib is still in control of the party. Therefore, assuming Najib hasn’t been infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus, he and his minions didn’t sign any SD.
And if Najib still controls the deciding votes in UMNO, it also means he possessed a block of at least 20 simple-majority votes. Which means at most, the despicable Zahid Hamidi would have only 19 votes. Now if you minus Najib’s 20 votes out of UMNO’s total 39 votes, it means the MPs who had signed the SD have shrunk to merely 98 (118 minus 20).
Wait a minute. What if Hishammuddin Hussein, the UMNO traitor and cousin of Najib, somehow miraculously managed to get the much speculated 30 UMNO MPs to defect to Mahathir’s camp? Even if that’s true, which is not because it would mean the influential Najib only has 9 MPs in his pocket, the total SD will amount to only 109 (118 minus 9).
Heck, even PAS news media Harakah could not believe their eyes that The Star would produce such half-baked news. Harakah commented that it’s not logic that all Members of Parliaments of UMNO had signed the SD. Instead of supporting fellow opposition MCA’s fake news, Harakah, even with its “IQ of a carrot”, finds it hard to believe that as many as 26 PKR MPs had signed the SD.
Yes, we have not even drilled into the 26 PKR MPs claimed by The Star to have swung their support for Mahathir. If indeed 26 PKR MPs had a change of heart, it simply means traitor Azmin Ali (26 MPs) has more support than PKR President Anwar Ibrahim (remaining 24 MPs). What the hell is Azmin waiting for? Should not he kick Anwar out of the party instead?
Azmin, caught with his pants down engaging gay sex at Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Sandakan, Sabah, could not even bring 15 PKR MPs to support Mahathir, let alone 26. It’s so obvious that the number was plucked from the sky, or the MCA newspaper just copied the pasted the same number of MPs from Bersatu / PPBM (which was wrong anyway) into PKR column to cook the figures.
Let’s assume Azmin managed to pressure, blackmail or even bribe up to 15 PKR MPs to cross over with promises of cash, women and power. The total number of SDs would plunge again to 98 (109 minus 11, best case scenario where Hishammuddin controlled 30 MPs) or worse 87 (98 minus 11, worst case scenario where Najib controlled 20 MPs).
Do we need to continue and argue how silly it was to assume all 9 MPs from Warisan would support Mahathir, after the old man defiantly expanded its wings to the eastern state of Sabah, hence greedily bullying and fighting with a supposedly ally for territories in the Borneo? Have the oppositions forgotten how they won Kimanis by-election in Sabah last month.
The Star conveniently claimed it had gotten the figures from “sources”. Perhaps the news media should be investigated for spreading fake news. But what is more important is to send their journalists to Basic Math 101 class so that they learn how to count and won’t embarrass themselves again in the future. Editors at The Star should stop insulting people’s intelligence.
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February 15th, 2020 by financetwitter
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Comments
Its really simple math. Say 99% of DAP and 50% of PKR supports Anwar. You get 142 seats for Mahathir. So easy math here.
Math, or just lessons in addition done in jawi script would have very easily cured the appalling standard of maths in Malaysia.
You get Malaysians on overdrive and in heat barking and braying on all sorts of posts on the Internet, but when any post contains numbers, Malaysians instantly turn into silent donkeys totally spastic at even the most basic of arithmetic!
The fictatious figure of strong support for Mahatir has been played for weeks but on street level nobody believe it so or give a damn. Rationale thinking knows that the old man could not command any more support from East Malaysia . They have not forgotten who gave them their miseries in Project M and short changing in allocating and sharing the petrol wealth. Azmin do not have his quota from PKR which infact is dwindling down after his gay sex escapees exposure. PAS 18 are not even true in figure as many in PAS has no love lost for Mahatir save for the few desperado leaders who are in the “dedak” and have conveniently forgotten the past episodes of sour incidents when the old fox was the PM and Umno president. Even in his own party of Bersatu there are many “Brutus” waiting to plunge the “dagger” as they are seeing it to be a foolish moves to keep on supporting and proping up a 94 years old man and his cohorts where most of them are left out from participating in disecting the allocation of the country big economic pie. We can go on and on but foolishly the numbers in support as claimed by politicians are always contentious and contrary to be seriously take note. Infact they are themselves their worst enemy in ridiculing their integrity. It is a known fact that Mahatir has no outright support and all the antics in play to shore up his popularity are a sad display of a low tier magic show by his fading and outdated strategists. Mahatir should call it a day and be at least remembered as someone pivotal in dismantling the kleptocrat government or he willing choose to have his last grand stand with the odds stack against him. The rakyat has made their clarion call for him to go and he should take heed of that and ride out to the twilight with his boots still on him.