Negeri Sembilan police have started investigating Sanusi Nor for making statements conducive to public mischief. However, nobody believes the “untouchable” Kedah Chief Minister would be charged, let alone sent to jail under the extremely weak leadership of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The investigation is just another cheap political drama to show something is being done.
The simple fact that opposition Perikatan Nasional election director Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor is not being investigated under a more serious law of threatening “national security” is the clearest sign that the case would eventually be dropped. He would become an instant Malay hero if the authorities dare to charge him. That’s why he dared to spew false racist and extremist rhetoric in the first place.
Working hand-in-glove, the PN-BN (Perikatan Nasional-Barisan Nasional) cooperation is in overdrive as Negeri Sembilan’s state election campaign enters its final week before polling on August 1. Instead of courageously locking up the chief instigator, the Prime Minister was terrified – scrambling to douse inflamed racial sentiment as politicians from both PN and BN urged Malays to unite politically.
PM Anwar is trapped as BN and PN are portraying the election as a contest for Malay political leadership and warned against a federal government that they claimed is dominated by the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP). He could neither attack his own governing partner BN nor opposition PN. The PM-obssessed Anwar may need support from both after the next 16th General Election for a second term.
When Mr Anwar warned ministers, deputy ministers, and federal agency heads that they must resign from their positions if they use their official federal status to attack fellow unity government partners, he was mocked, challenged, and even insulted. UMNO deputy president and foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said he is prepared to resign from the Cabinet if ordered to do so by the Premier.
But Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi, who is also UMNO president, asserted that BN ministers do not need to resign, challenging the Prime Minister to sack them instead. “If he doesn’t like us, he can just sack us,” – said Zahid. With an egg on his face, PM Anwar could only keep silent, pretending as if nothing had happened but looking like a fool after Mr Zahid called his bluff.
That was not the biggest humiliation suffered by Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook was being played left, right, and centre by UMNO. Zahid, while campaigning in Simpang Durian, urged voters to vote for UMNO-led BN in the Chennah state seat, saying “kasi bungkus itu orang (pack off that person).” Zahid was referring to Loke.
Silly Loke, who was under the delusion that Zahid was his best friend in the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), was super sad, speechless and shocked. Yet, like his political master Anwar, Loke could not and dare not retaliate appropriately. With tail between legs, DAP Commander-in-Chief Loke could only advise the BN chief not to speak arrogantly when campaigning in the state election.
But the damage is done. For more than three years, both Anwar Ibrahim and Loke Siew Fook have deliberately – and cowardly – closed both eyes whenever UMNO unleashed its notorious troublemaker Akmal Saleh (UMNO Youth Chief) to bully, threaten, intimidate and terrorize the Chinese business community. The plan was to strengthen UMNO, even at the expense of DAP’s own Chinese core supporters.
During the Johor state election campaign last month, Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Onn Hafiz Ghazi said he would rather give up his position than “sit at the same table” with DAP. Loke proudly responded that Onn’s boss, UMNO president Zahid, sits next to him during every weekly cabinet meeting. But with Zahid now publicly asking people to “bungkus” Loke, the DAP chief definitely looks like a moron.
The insults from Zahid were more than symbolic. It shows how despite DAP possessing 40 MPs in the parliament – the biggest party in the federal government – UMNO has zero respect for Loke. The paramount leader of the Chinese increasingly looks like a timid mouse rather than a dragon with Zahid’s latest insult. Zahid shows Loke Siew Fook is no different than MCA eunuch Wee Ka Siong, UMNO’s lapdog.
DAP is paying the price for ignoring the Chinese interests whilst at the same time failing to win over the Malay hearts. Despite Loke’s childish strategy to appease UMNO-Malays, the Malay community showed their middle finger to DAP in the Johor state election. Worse, even UMNO chief Zahid took advantage of Loke’s weakness by giving him a kick where it hurts the most.
But that is not the best part. Because DAP top leadership is drunk with power, the spineless Anthony Loke may have to continue “kowtowing” to UMNO even after the Negeri Sembilan state election no matter how UMNO ridicules, bullies, and insults DAP or Pakatan Harapan in the future. Timid Tony still doesn’t understand that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Now that Loke has become a joke within the circle of UMNO-Malays after Zahid’s mocking to “bungkus him”, it creates a narrative that UMNO has become stronger and is worth voting for among the Malays. The strategy to attack DAP and to bank on Malay unity resonates well with the state’s electoral realities – 57% of the electorate in Negeri Sembilan are Malays.
On top of that, 23 of 36 state seats have Malay-majority electorates, where 11 of those seats make up more than three-quarters of Malay voters in the state. If the blue wave from Johor sweeps Negeri Sembilan, Anwar and Loke could be leading Pakatan Harapan to yet another disastrous defeat. PH’s dumb strategy to chase Malay votes, thinking it could outdo UMNO and Islamist party PAS has been miscalculated.
The “8123” numerical slogan – “81” or August 1 is polling day and 23 denotes the seats Pakatan aims to win – mooted by Chennah incumbent Anthony Loke could turn out to be true. But the 23 seats could end up in BN’s pocket instead, not PH as fantasized by Loke. The Malay mood has shifted and there is so much anti-DAP propaganda playing out on the Malay ground.
Chinese make up 44% of the voters in Chennah and Anthony Loke desperately needs them all on this Saturday. If the turnout is similar to that of Johor, where the Malay voter turnout (estimated at 77%) was much higher than the Chinese voter turnout (estimated at 58%), the DAP Chief is “bungkus”. Anything less than 80% turnout from the Chinese community is bungkus for Loke.
The level of frustration and displeasure among non-Malays, particularly the Chinese, can no longer be swept under the carpet. The traditional DAP supporters are aggrieved and angry that the party has failed them in fully addressing the issue of UEC (Unified Examination Certificate). DAP has also failed the Chinese community in the pig farming issue in the state of Selangor which it governs.
The Anwar-led administration in Selangor could not explain satisfactorily why pig farming has to be banned in the state when it had been working fine for over 60 years under the previous BN, and even under the backdoor government of PN. As the recent Johor election results showed, even the Indian community has abandoned PH in droves in favour of BN over the temples issue.
On Wednesday night (July 29), while addressing over 1,000 people at a meet-and-greet session with the Indian community in Seremban, PM Anwar Ibrahim reluctantly apologized and appealed to Indian voters last night to forgive his past mistake of referring to houses of worship on disputed land as “illegal”. But it’s too little too late. The Indian community is ready to teach DAP, PKR, Amanah, and PH a lesson.
It’s obvious why the racist PM had waited till now before apologizing after he happily – and arrogantly – insulted illegal Hindu temples months ago. Indians make up more than 20% of the electorate in 11 of the state’s wards, of which nine are governed by the ruling coalition. More than 80% of the Indian vote in the 2023 Negeri Sembilan state election helped PH won 17 out of 36 seats overall.
But the Indian support now appears to be hanging in the balance. BN won an estimated 60% of the Indian vote in Johor, a bloc that had largely backed PH for the past two decades. As far as the Indian community is concerned, PH promised a lot, but never did anything, especially for Indians on issues like scholarships and temple demolitions. They wanted to tell Anwar that they have an option – BN.
More importantly, it shows that DAP is struggling to help deliver the desired 23 seats in Negeri Sembilan for Anwar-led PH. Without 95% Chinese votes and 80% Indian votes, PH is looking at a defeat against the onslaught of the mighty BN-PN Malay forces. Like the police investigation drama on Sanusi, very few believes Anwar’s apology was sincere. To say that Anwar and Loke are fabulously desperate is an understatement. They are panicking.
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July 30th, 2026 by financetwitter
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