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Paya Besar UMNO veterans urge BN to leave Unity Government

From Utusan Malaysia · () Malay

Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Opinion Named sources Context piece
  • Paya Besar UMNO veterans called on Barisan Nasional to leave Malaysia’s Unity Government, alleging that Pakatan Harapan was using political retaliation and threats.
  • Group chairman Mohamed Ghazali Josoh said the government should focus on economic development, welfare and living costs instead of blaming previous leaders.
  • He warned that BN could lose grassroots support if it remained aligned with PH and urged the party to leave before the next general election.

Paya Besar UMNO veterans are calling on Barisan Nasional to leave Malaysia’s Unity Government, accusing Pakatan Harapan of resorting to “politics of retaliation and threats.”

People are fed up with the politics of mutual blame.

· Mohamed Ghazali JosohThe Paya Besar UMNO veterans chairman criticized the government’s focus on blaming previous leaders.

The group’s chairman, Mohamed Ghazali Josoh, said PH was trying to create negative perceptions and damage the reputations of those who disagreed with it. He argued that this approach would deepen public resentment because it focused on assigning blame instead of solving people’s problems.

“People are fed up with the politics of mutual blame,” Mohamed Ghazali told Utusan Malaysia. He said Malaysians were struggling with economic pressure and rising living costs, and that governments at both federal and state levels should concentrate on economic development, welfare and public well-being.

If the old government was not good, the current government needs to prove that it is better. Make improvements, rather than merely looking for other people’s faults.

· Mohamed Ghazali JosohHe said the current administration should demonstrate better performance instead of attacking its predecessor.

“If the old government was not good, the current government needs to prove that it is better. Make improvements, rather than merely looking for other people’s faults,” he said. Mohamed Ghazali warned that voters were assessing every government decision and that failing to provide solutions would accelerate the loss of confidence in the leadership.

This Unity Government should be a platform to unite the people, but the opposite is happening. The people are becoming more divided because of narrow political games.

· Mohamed Ghazali JosohHe argued that coalition politics was undermining the government’s stated goal of national unity.

He also said the alleged use of threats and retaliation was damaging the government’s image and undermining the national unity that the coalition was supposed to represent. “This Unity Government should be a platform to unite the people, but the opposite is happening. The people are becoming more divided because of narrow political games,” he said. Mohamed Ghazali urged BN to leave without waiting for the 16th General Election, warning that continued cooperation with PH could cost the party support from its grassroots. “BN must return to the people, not submit to the politics of threats,” he said.

BN must return to the people, not submit to the politics of threats.

· Mohamed Ghazali JosohHe urged Barisan Nasional to leave the Unity Government and reconnect with its grassroots.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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