Even if Anwar is lucky enough to win a seat, he may no longer be the prime minister.
Where will Anwar Ibrahim, the 10th Prime Minister and PKR president, contest in the next 16th General Election? The joke at coffee shops nowadays is that the only safe seat for the Premier is Gaza. Coming from the horse’s mouth, not only is the People’s Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Rakyat or PKR) is struggling with safe seats, but the party could be wiped out entirely.
Yes, Anwar’s party is on the brink of annihilation, if a recent secret election strategy briefing is any indicator. Unlike 8 years ago, when UMNO warlords led by PM Najib Razak were absolutely shocked after the party lost power for the first time in the May 2018 General Election, this round, some 800 PKR delegates were shocked by a potential defeat even before the next national polls begin.
An internal analysis report, supposedly private and confidential within PKR, has been leaked. It categorised 66 parliamentary seats PKR is expected to contest into four tiers:
Tier 1 (safe / stronghold) – 7 seats
Tier 2A (leaning strong) – 13 seats
Tier 2B (marginal) – 17 seats
Tier 3 (difficult) – 29 seats
With only seven constituencies identified as “safe” – less than a quarter of the 31 seats the party won in the last election (Nov 2022), it’s not hard to understand why the party delegates are squirming like worms, precisely like how the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) felt in 2018. The sense of gloom and doom about PKR’s defeat is spooking the party.
The best part of the internal report is that out of the so-called seven safe seats, four of them belong to Rafizi Ramli and his allies, whom power-crazy party president Anwar is trying to get rid of because they refused to obediently kiss his ring, lick his boot unconditionally, and worship him like a Prophet. The four seats were Rafizi’s Pandan, Subang, Ampang, and Petaling Jaya.
Even PKR supremo – Anwar Ibrahim – would most likely lose his current seat of Tambun in Perak, which has been classified as a marginal safe. In the 15th General Election, Anwar, contesting in Tambun for the first time after running away from Port Dickson, won the four-way race with a majority of only 3,736 votes. Therefore, the Prime Minister is expected to run away again, abandoning Tambun.
He chose Tambun in the November 2022 election instead of Gombak, the constituency of his former deputy, who had betrayed him – Azmin Ali – for a reason. Tambun has twice the number of Chinese voters in terms of the electorate percentage. But Amirudin Shari, PKR candidate fielded as a sacrificial lamb to challenge Azmin, had instead secured a higher majority (12,729 votes) than Anwar in Tambun.
Angry voters scammed by forked-tongue Anwar are now sharpening their knives to vote out the serial liar, who had promised the sky and moon to Tambun farmers, but never delivered. For example, farmers in Kanthan, Tambun, have faced “forced evictions” by state authorities to reclaim land for development, destroying the livelihoods of farmers who have worked the land for over 60 years.
On October 24, 2023, the Perak Land and Mines Office, accompanied by police, enforced the eviction, leading to the arrest of four individuals, including PSM chairman Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj. The Perak government, of which Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan is a governing partner, wanted to reclaim over 1,000 acres of land, arguing the eviction is legal and that alternative land was offered in Changkat Kinding.
However, farmers and PSM activists argued that not only have they operated on the land for decades, claiming they have “implied consent”, but also that they are legitimate producers and that the state failed to provide promised 30-year lease agreements for replacement land. Crucially, they also argued that the eviction is unjust and undermines the local food supply.
The inhuman “land grab” incidents have resulted in physical confrontations, with reports of protesters being injured and agricultural machinery clearing farmland. While the Perak state government conveniently denied and lied about the forced eviction, the federal government saw PM Anwar – along with toothless tiger Democratic Action Party (DAP) – kept quiet as farmers were bullied and oppressed.
Despite Anwar’s election promise to defend over 130 small-scale farmers in Kanthan, which is part of the Tambun parliamentary constituency, the Madani government brutally deployed heavy machinery to uproot farmers from their lands. Some families have been farming for about 80 years. Sure, the farmers were not legal owners of the land, but they can certainly vote out PKR and Anwar Ibrahim legally.
Worse, when these desperate farmers tried to meet their own MP at Parliament – the Prime Minister, who is also the Finance Minister – they were turned away unceremoniously, rudely and arrogantly by security because Mr Anwar has no more use of the same Tambun farmers whom the PKR president had once “terhegeh-hegeh” begging votes from.
Some constituents are so frustrated and upset that they have expressed that they “will not miss” Anwar even if he chooses not to defend his seat in the next general election. Tambun gets nothing while Gaza gets RM200 million, and billions are poured into opposition states. Even Permatang Pauh, a stronghold of the Anwar family before losing to an unknown opposition in 2022, received 14,000 chickens.
As all hell broke loose after the PKR’s analysis report was leaked, there is speculation that Anwar may shamelessly steal Batu – one of seven “Tier 1” safe seats – from party member P Prabakaran, who won the seat with a 22,241 majority. Speculation is also swirling that Anwar’s daughter, Nurul Izzah, may contest mommy’s seat of Bandar Tun Razak in the next general election.
The father and daughter may get safe seats by cannibalising their own comrades. Others are not so lucky, though. PKR’s newly crowned vice-presidents Ramanan (Sungai Buloh) and Amirudin Shari (Gombak) fared even worse, given that they fall under “Tier 3: Difficult Seats”. With limited safe seats available, dozens of PKR warlords would lose their shirts as they scramble to lobby for seats.
From 47 won in the 14th General Election in 2018, PKR only won 31 out of the 81 parliamentary seats contested in the November 2022 national polls. Now, the once mighty People’s Justice Party may end up winning only around 10 parliamentary seats in the next election – if it’s lucky not to be wiped out. That would reduce PKR to a mosquito party, eliminating Anwar’s wet dream for a second term.
Anwar has no one to blame but himself. The report, most likely incorporated with military intelligence input, shows how PKR, under the fake reformist has screwed up the past three years. The narcissist single-handedly destroys his own party with internal power struggles – eliminating Rafizi seen as a threat to his Iron Throne, whilst promoting dynastic politics, cronyism and nepotism.
Surrounded by apple polishers and bootlickers, the Premier becomes incredibly arrogant and out of touch with the ground. Critical allies like DAP are doing more harm than good by keeping quiet as Pakatan Harapan behaves like the previous racist and corrupt Barisan Nasional government – protecting corrupt leaders of all sizes, defending corporate mafia, marginalising minorities’ interests, promoting racism and extremism, and whatnot.
A known racist during his time as former UMNO deputy president before his sacking in 1998 due to sodomy and corruption, Anwar is committing political harakiri with unpopular new taxes, e-invoice system, delayed tax refunds, scrapping fuel subsidies, escalating cost of living, corporate mafia scandal, selective corruption, nepotism and cronyism.
Hilariously, after the leak of the document stating that the party of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is going to face an uphill battle with devastating consequences in the 16th General Election, PKR MPs who had been sleeping on the job have suddenly woken up. Lee Chean Chung, MP for Petaling Jaya – supposedly one of 7 safe seats – now says his seat is also at stake.
Lee said that although his constituency – Petaling Jaya – is located in Selangor, very urban, and considered strong and safe, in reality, it can no longer be considered guaranteed. Having kept quiet for the last 3 years, he somehow found the balls to warn that Anwar’s party, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), could face a similar situation as in 2004 when it won only one seat in Penang.
If PKR could not even defend Petaling Jaya, chances are the party may win “less than 5” parliamentary seats, even fewer than Rafizi’s new political party, which is yet to be set up. Anwar’s political revenge with fabricated corruption charges against former PKR Deputy President Rafizi Ramli and his aide James Chai could backfire and cause more damage to the party.
And based on how newly crowned PKR Deputy President Nurul Izzah led the party to an annihilation in the Sabah state election last year, clearly, Anwar’s daughter isn’t the leadership material needed to drive the party. Nobody cares or believes what the former “Puteri Reformasi” screams, let alone his hypocrite and liar daddy, the only prime minister who is a seat-hopper.
Even if Anwar is lucky enough to win a seat, he may no longer be the prime minister. With limited time left and without strategist Rafizi to help PKR regain public support, especially from young voters and fence sitters, the moron prime minister is leading the party to self-destruction. The best part is bootlickers like Ramanan are still in denial over the severity of the party’s crisis. – Finance Twitter