Marhaen Dan Rakyat

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...

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