Directly elected Prime Minister will do more good to the country

I am conclusively convinced and consumed by the notion that a Prime Minister of this country should be directly elected by the people in a general election. The present system of electing a Prime Minister by the Parliament through the consensus of the ruling coalition parties  is already obsolete as it results more harm than good to the country. The present conventional system is too prone to abuse by any leader who becomes the PM just through the consensus of the Legislative members who control the Parliament without being voted in by the people.

What we are facing now is the negative consequence of the current system. The current system was only good in a situation when the leaders of the ruling party were truly responsible and upright leaders  like The Tunku, Tun Razak and Hussein Onn. The three leaders were leaders with utmost credibility as they were purely serving the people without any quench to show personal differences with other leaders for personal glory and legacies. These three leaders had only one legacy, leaving the country safe and sound for the leaders who inherited their positions and power.   

To alternate the BN with Pakatan Rakyat will be equally at risk as the Pakatan Rakyat too will choose the Prime Minister on the consensus of parties within the Pakatan Rakyat. At the current moment Pakatan itself is facing huge problems on inter-party issues even before assuming power. Pakatan Rakyat does not even have any candidate for the post as they are warring each other among the members of its coalition. The risk of the elected representatives not being sensitive to the pulses of the people has been the main apprehension in getting a proper and appropriate leader to lead. 

If we were to practise direct election, a leader like Najib and Abdullah Badawi  or their likes couldn't have been elected in the first place.  Only the best perceived person with sterling records of contributions to the country could have the gut to to be nominated and run for the position for the Chief Executive of the country. Najib's credibility have been in suspicion even before he became the Prime Minister. Najib was chosen through the influence of Dr Mahathir's taste buds who presently is his number one enemy. Let's not ask Dr Mahathir why he chose Najib to be ascended to power. Let him keep the reasons to himself.

We have to change and keep abreast with the need of time. To maintain the current system will only benefit the elite, rent seeking leaders and those group within the corridors of the ruling party. This situation has been there for a long while. There is no more possibility of getting any good and appropriate leader if this system persist. It will remain as a fertile soil for unscrupulous and debauched leaders to hijack the leadership of this country and serve their own gullible needs.

If the election of the Prime Minister is done through direct election by the people there will be a serious and genuine competitions among the aspiring candidates to prove their worth as a leader. Only the fittest will be assuming the position of the Prime Minister. Every one of them will serve at their best of their capabilities and usually these kinds of leaders would not be in the hoards of corrupt and self serving leaders like we have now. They will be of more dignified as maintaining one's dignity is their main concerned.

It is exceedingly important for this to happen as we truly need a new system of alternating leaders if we are serious in efforts to circumvent undeserving leaders to lead the country in future. Malaysian should not resist this manner of alternating the Prime Minister especially the Malays. Malaysian have accepted and come to term that we have to have a Malay to lead. We may legislate that a Prime Minister must be a Malay and by that it means we accept any good and legitimately truthful and astute Malay leaders to be nominated as PM's candidates. Let us all think outside the box as the change is needed to keep abreast with the demands of the competitive and changing world.

The Malays should not have any apprehension in accepting this suggestion or any other proposal that bring into effect the directly elected Prime Minister by the voting public. By this we have a truly representative choice of the PM and the rakyat can take accountability to their choice. Right now the rakyat is suffering by the PM's rule who was not chosen by them.

All the while our PMs were chosen among the members of the winning coalition (BN) and endorsed by the Legislative controlled by the ruling coalition, usually from UMNO. In other words no non Malays are involved in electing the PM. Right from the day we achieved independence and not even UMNO members have had their say in electing the PM other than much less than ten percent of members were given the chance to vote and decide who should lead the nation in a general assembly of the party.

A Malay leader who becomes the victor in the direct election as the PM will be truly a leader who is rounded and well accepted by the true and genuine choice of the general voting public.He will be the real leader of all Malaysians and not the choice of only few thousands Malay UMNO delegates.

It would then leave a minimal risk of playing politics along racial line as the choice is the choice of every Malaysian. This is because the winning Malay candidate will be a person who is magnanimous and with utmost credibility who will manage the country fairly and equitably among the diverse racial, tradition and ways of life that we have.

In short direct election for the post of the PM will result in having a Malay leader who is well accepted by Malaysian from all races who believe and have confidence in him. This blog have been repeatedly emphasizing the need to achieve the nation's ultimate, the national unity.

Dr Mahathir says it again, Najib is afraid of criminal charges

Dr Mahathir said it again yesterday at a packed hi-tea function in De Palma hotel that Najib is afraid of criminal litigations against him if he quits  his position as a Prime Minister. So what do we do? Are we going to keep quiet and allow the pillaging and plundering of the state wealth and keep on the centralising of power to the PM's office?  Why are we allowing him and his wife (as perceived by the public) to become toll collectors on all big and gigantic and massive projects the government undertake? 

Of course Najib will be clinging to power to avoid all possible criminal charges against him. The best for him to do is to stay in power until his death to disallow any kind of litigations against him. He has to stay in power and die while in office. 

So what are those laws and the existence of democratic institutions for? If we have mandated him to manage the nation wisely we are also provided with institutions that can pull away the mandate from him for his failure to manage the nation with reasonably high moral standards. 

What is the Legislatives doing about this? Are they dumb and deaf? Can't they hear and see what the pranks and shenanigans shamelessly commited by Najib and his cabinet in the open? Can't the members of the Legislatives feel the pulses of the people who are desperately wanting to see that Najib to go and retire and disallow him to get near to vicinity of  the government especially the government treasury? 

What Dr Mahathir mentioned yesterday was the true and actual reason why Najib wants to cling to power. As I have said few times in this blog, Najib is riding on the back of the tiger and not able to dismount. He hopes to ride on the tiger until the tiger dies. Dismounting from the back of the tiger will endanger him and may cause him life. 

He has no time to think about the people he leads as he is fully focused in saving his own funeral. He knows that the world is shying away from him but he doesn't care what the world think about him. He has only one thing to concentrate on, i.e. his own life. He is expediently using the residue of power that he has to barricade any move to oust him as he has only power to save him from criminal charges against him for his wrong doings to the nation. 

He has to keep on lying to cover all the previous lies. He does not only tell lies in his country but he tell lies up until the United Nation in front of almost empty hall. No one believes on what he says any longer but he doesn't care a hoot about it. He is now a known orphanage leader in the world. 

He will keep on ruling the country with the IGP and may be with the AG. He will keep on forcing his Cabinet members and the Mentris Besar to support him and will displace all leaders and civil servants that he distrusts. 

His life is always in fear and that is why we see him going around town with dozens of body guards. He has only himself to guard and he does not care to guard for the safety of the nation. He has a slogan to guard for the people, that his 'rakyat didahulukan pencapaian diutamakan'. In practise the slogan results the reverse, 'aku didahulukan pencapaian aku diutamakan'. 

Now let us take care of ourselves. We have democratic institutions that can resolve and mitigate the leadership problems if we have the courage to work on it. We have the members of the Legislatures and the constitution has provided the Malay rulers to sack and to replace the Prime Minister. 

Najib has to go and let him retire together with his staunch supporters like Rahman Dahlan, Salleh Keruak, IGP and the rest like Zahid Hamidi and the AG. Let the rest of Malaysians take care of this nation and rebuild it from the disaster that Najib has done to the country. It's not too late if the change is done now. It's better late than never as the adage goes. 

We need an astute and a technocratically abled leader to formulate strong planning and transformation of the country. We must remember that as long as we are divided along racial line, this nation can never be called a nation. Racial issue have been polarized without hindrance and this is due to poor leadership under present leaders without leadership. We want a strong system to administer the nation and not ruled by the whim and fancies of the sitting leaders. 

I have a suggestion if we succeed in our efforts to find an astute and technocratically abled leader takes over this devastated leadership. Do away with all the useless and ungainly slogans that have sprouted since three decades ago. Let us go back to our old slogan which have been long forgotten, i.e. MUHIBBAH. That is our ultimate for our multiracial nation with diverse ways of life.  

We don't know how it happens, but changes will soon be a reality

The unusual happenings in Malaysian politics will hopefully results in new environments and situation in Malaysian political facets. As much believed by people with high thoughts and believes the worst of situation that we are in now should be followed with huge blessings. It should end with promising closure and that situation would be the best premise for good planning and building the nation for the future of the country with new and leader who is more familiar with plannings, thus subsequently restart the nation anew. Nothing good can be achieved without going through rough and tribulations. That rough and tribulation will usually results in good happenings that we can subsequently rejoice.

As I have repeatedly been saying that we are now truly in the darkest part of the night and the darker the night is the nearer we are to the dawn. I strongly believe that we are already near to the dawn and let us all rejoice and count all the blessings that God bestows upon us then. 

Going true the rough and tribulations will build maturity in us especially for our leaders, the past, the current and the future. As fondly believed  by people with high spiritual value in their inner selves, every great evil that occurs, great good follows. The period of tribulations is the time when everyone does his own soul searching and that was the period when good fortune will emerge for the country as everyone has learnt his lessons which sometimes may be an expensive one. 

We may not be able to know how the good things going to happen but somehow it will happen as God works mystically and mysteriously which most of the time beyond our comprehension and computation of our mind..

We are not short of leaders who can act swiftly to  transform for the country that set to put us in new political ambiance . However these leaders or at least one of them have been on the side line for many years due to personal political game by leaders for the past two decades or more.

The carelessness of our leadership by not developing budding leaders to inherit leadership for this country was the main reason why we are stuffed with undependable leaders who are all out for their personal politics who are self serving and do not take the interest of the nation above everything. Now we have learnt enough that to depend on self serving leaders that we have now is damaging for the country. If not mitigated instantaneously will bring the country to devastation.

As I have said in my earlier posting the ousting of the sitting PM is one issue, but more crucial than that is replacing the outgoing PM with untainted leader with sterling records of contributions to the nation is of utmost importance. The crucial decision is to decide on who is the fittest to lead and exercise the much needed national correction. The conventional manner of alternating leaders have proven to be futile when the ungainly cultures that have been ingrained among the top governing leaders are already not beneficial to the nation any longer. It will only perpetuate our pains and disillusionment towards the government.

One thing for sure the ordinary rakyat are waiting impatiently to see and witness the needed change if possible instantaneously.

There's a formula to get answers in leadership change, it's like maths

Where do we stand as a nation at international political arena of late? With all certainties many of us feel that we are not positioned like we used to be.  We used to be observed upon as the most progressing nation with fast and speedy development that was managed by astute leaders of yester years who did nothing more than just to see the nation keeping abreast with other developed or developing nations of the world. We were ahead of Korea and many other nations in the region as well as many others in the world but sadly in just over two decades we were far trailing behind Korea in all traits and facets of a truly well managed nation.

We are even trailing behind new emerging nations like Vietnam and to some hints that we were slowly overtaken by Myanmar and few other nations within the vicinity of the region. We were led by astute leaders with strong cabinet lineup who did not compromise their dignity with the love for money and wealth that were ill gotten. Leaders of those years were fully geared to see the nation was managed appropriately and they were all out sacrificing their souls for the nation right from the day we achieved our independence.

There was less rhetoric those days with highly charged slogans. As far as we can reminisce we only had a slogan, MUHIBBAH as national unity was the sole and ultimate eventual that were focused to arrive at. However since the eighties were impregnated endlessly with high sounded slogan which in the end did not materialize organic results for the nation and its people. We have been stuffed with unyielding slogans while the country was managed from already bad to an unacceptable level.

Corruptions become the culture and way of life of leaders with hefty slogans. Leaders with too much slogans are found out to be leaders with weak attributes just to cover-up their serious leadership deficiencies. While the clean and amazing slogans were heavily publicized through mainstream media, leaders were actively doing the opposite practices for their personal recompenses through huge ill-gotten money in unbelievable sum from tax payer’s money without qualms or guilt.

We know that leaders with the culture of corruption and abused of power will never make proper decisions and obviously we are deep in it currently. As I have said in my previous posting ousting Najib is one thing but to get proper replacement is another crucial issue that we are going to face. This blog have emphasized with strong assertions that changing leadership with the ones who was in the system and culture will never do any change but just prolonging the ungainly culture that has been ingrained in them. This is a natural consequence and if that happens we will be in perpetual problems with evil and harmful leaders for a long while that follow after that.

We can now smell that there are efforts by some parties to replace Najib with leaders that have been working hand-in-glove with the kinds with Najib for many years and still believe in changing leadership from within the UMNO highest body, the Supreme Council. They believe it is sufficient to change Najib with the ones who are within them and this will help us to have another unexceptional mediocre to lead us. That formula of leadership change has proven to be faulty and has never given us good answer. Problems persist through and true and we have to be drastic by having another formula of leadership exchange this time around.

This blog has said uninterruptedly that only a leader who is not within the current system and culture will give a good and correct answer to all the glitches that the nation has faced for past decades.

Like mathematics correct answers to the leadership problems can only be found with correct formula…and it’s nothing less.