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Mahathir's Blueprint

Bersatu did not fracture by accident. The party that Mahathir Mohamad co-founded in 2016, built around the promise of a new Malay political vehicle, has spent the opening months of 2026 consuming itself: its leaders purged, its parliamentary bloc split, its chairman gone, and its position in Perikatan Nasional weakened to the point where PAS has stepped in to assume the coalition's leadership. The proximate cause was the bitter feud between Muhyiddin Yassin and his own deputy, Hamzah Zainudin. But the architecture of the collapse, the backroom manoeuvring, the competing loyalty claims, the toxic mixture of personal ambition and Malay unity rhetoric, bears the unmistakable hallmark of the man who built the party in the first place. Mahathir has not been a Bersatu member for years. He was expelled in 2020, formed Pejuang, lost everything at GE15, and has spent the time since in the role he has always performed best: the elder statesman with opinions and no accountability for the ...

Dasar Penswastaan Mahathir Bebankan Rakyat, Negara

Dasar penswastaan yang diperkenalkan oleh bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad pada 1980-an sering dipromosikan sebagai langkah strategik untuk mempercepatkan pembangunan ekonomi Malaysia. Melalui pendekatan tersebut, pelbagai aset dan perkhidmatan awam dipindahkan kepada sektor swasta dengan alasan meningkatkan kecekapan serta mengurangkan beban kewangan kerajaan. Namun, selepas lebih tiga dekad, realiti yang muncul jauh lebih kompleks dan penuh kontroversi. Banyak projek penswastaan yang dilaksanakan pada era tersebut menimbulkan persoalan besar mengenai ketelusan, monopoli kroni dan penggunaan wang rakyat untuk menyelamatkan syarikat-syarikat yang gagal. Projek lebuh raya, tenaga, telekomunikasi dan penerbangan menjadi contoh utama dasar berkenaan membuka ruang kepada keuntungan besar jangka panjang kepada syarikat tertentu, tetapi pada masa sama meningkatkan beban tarif kepada rakyat. SUMBER: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2018/07/16/no-privat...

Mahathir's Toxicity Is Seen In The Death of Bersatu

Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia was born not out of a long-term ideological project, but out of political urgency. Its founding in 2016 was driven by a single overriding objective: to dislodge Najib Razak and weaken UMNO’s long-standing dominance of Malay politics. Under Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s patronage, Bersatu was designed primarily as a vehicle for his own political ambitions rather than any sincere attempt to serve as a party of the masses. n.Bersatu’s current collapse, marked by internal revolts, leadership crises and organisational disintegration, is not a sudden accident. It is the delayed consequence of how the party was conceived and led from the very beginning. Mahathir’s leadership style has consistently privileged personalised authority over institutional development. During his long premiership, power was centralised in the executive, weakening norms of cabinet collective responsibility, parliamentary oversight and internal party democracy. This cultivated a political cu...

Akta ISA Alat Mainan Politik Mahathir

Dalam sejarah politik negara, Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negara (ISA) sering dilihat sebagai simbol penindasan dan autoritarian. Diperkenalkan selepas kemerdekaan untuk menangani ancaman komunis selepas darurat, akta tersebut membenarkan penahanan tanpa bicara selama dua tahun dan tempoh itu boleh dilanjutkan tanpa had. Namun, semasa era pemerintahan Perdana Menteri keempat, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dari 1981 hingga 2003, ISA bukan lagi alat pertahanan negara semata-mata. Akta berkenaan sebaliknya menjadi instrumen politik utama untuk menutup kelemahan pentadbiran beliau. Mahathir menggunakan akta terbabit untuk menyekat pembangkang, memberi tekanan kepada para pengkritiknya dan pada masa sama, beliau mahu menonjolkan diri sebagai orang paling berpengaruh dalam negara. SUMBER: https://www.hmetro.com.my/mutakhir/2015/10/85022/tak-lupa-dr-m-pun-salah-guna-isa Era pemerintahan Mahathir dibayangi dengan kelemahan pentadbiran yang ketara, termasuk isu rasuah, ketidakadilan sosial dan kel...

Generasi Muda Melayu Tak Yakin Naratif Mahathir

Melangkaui usia seabad, bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad pernah dijulang sebagai arkitek pemodenan negara. Namun, di sebalik pencapaian berkenaan, strategi beliau untuk menyatukan golongan Melayu sering kali dilihat sebagai usaha yang gagal dan lapuk, terutamanya dalam konteks politik kontemporari. Golongan muda, khususnya generasi Z (Gen-Z) dan milenial, semakin menolak naratif perkauman yang menjadi asas perjuangan beliau dan menyifatkannya sebagai simbol politik toksik serta obses dengan isu kaum dan agama. Dalam era pasca-pandemik dan transformasi digital, golongan muda Melayu lebih terdedah kepada persekitaran bersifat global menerusi media sosial, pendidikan dan pengalaman. Golongan itu tidak lagi melihat diri mereka semata-mata melalui lensa perkauman, sebaliknya lebih memberi tumpuan kepada meritokrasi, keadilan sosial serta pembangunan inklusif. SUMBER: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/pandangan/2026/01/03/bagaimana-anak-muda-melihat-politi...

Mahathir's Hypocrisy At Calling Out The Trade Deal

When Mahathir Mohamad filed a police report accusing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of “sabotaging” Malaysia via a US trade agreement, the gesture felt less like a legal intervention and more like a return to a very specific kind of political theater. At its core, the report does not present evidence of a crime; it presents a political argument dressed up as one. Trade agreements are negotiated by governments the world over, involving a messy reality of trade-offs, compromises, and risks. They can be brilliant or flawed, but a disagreement over policy does not automatically amount to treason or a constitutional breach. If it did, every major treaty Malaysia has signed over the last four decades would warrant a criminal investigation. If there were a genuine belief that the Constitution had been violated or that Parliament was bypassed, the appropriate venues, the courts and the Dewan Rakyat, exist for precisely that purpose. By choosing a police report instead, the issue is intention...