Marhaen Dan Rakyat

Dalam sejarah politik moden Malaysia, jarang ditemui seorang individu yang mampu menukar kesetiaan terhadap parti politik, sebanyak dilakukan oleh Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dalam tempoh kurang sedekad. Mahathir bermula sebagai tunjang utama Barisan Nasional (BN) selama lebih 22 tahun sebagai Perdana Menteri. Beliau kemudiannya menjadi teraju kepada Pakatan Harapan (PH) yang menumbangkan BN pada 2018. Selepas itu, Mahathir menjadi arkitek kepada peristiwa Langkah Sheraton yang membawa kepada pembentukan Perikatan Nasional (PN) pada 2020. Mahathir kemudiannya menubuhkan partinya sendiri iaitu Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (PEJUANG). Perjalanan politik Mahathir dalam tempoh sedekad mendedahkan perangai sebenar Mahathir yang mendahulukan kepentingan peribadi dan legasi kuasanya berbanding memikirkan kestabilan serta perpaduan politik Melayu yang beliau sendiri kerap perjuangkan. SUMBER: https://malaysiagazette.com/2018/02/03/tun-m-punca-utama-masyarakat-pecah-belah-tian-ker/ Mahathir me...

  In the documentary My Name is Mahathir, released in May 2026, the former prime minister brushed off the question of how history will judge him. He said he does not care about his legacy, and that if people want to call him a dictator, "that is their right". It sounded good. It sounded like a man who ran the country for 22 years, built Putrajaya out of a palm estate, and stopped caring what anyone thought of him around 1993. Now put it next to the other Mahathir story of 2026. He is suing Anwar Ibrahim for RM150 million over a speech at a PKR congress in March 2023. He wants RM100 million in exemplary damages, RM50 million in general damages, a written apology, and a press conference where the sitting prime minister takes it all back in public. The case has been running for three years. It stalled again this year while the High Court waited for the National Heart Institute to say whether he is well enough to keep giving evidence. So call him a dictator and he shrugs. Say he ...