The 'back-door' cabinet - everything that's wrong with M'sian politics

COMMENT | Muhyiddin Yassin's cabinet is like any sports team in today's Malaysia where members are not chosen for their skills on the pitch, their teamwork or their ability to perform under pressure.

Apart from race and religion, the selection criteria include skills in ampu bodek (flattery), strong kabel ke atas (political connections) and back-stabbing.

Football legends like Santokh Singh, Soh Chin Aun, Mokhtar Dahari, "Spiderman" R Arumugam and James Wong have been replaced by people with the calibre of Azmin Ali, Ismail Sabri, Hishammuddin Hussein, Khairy Jamaluddin and the token Chinese, Indian and East Malaysian.

Muhyiddin's "stuck-in-a-rut" cabinet sums up the dirty state of Malaysian politics. The needs and aspirations of the rakyat have made way for greedy, power-hungry politicians to promote their pseudo-Malay agenda.

After Muhyiddin staged his coup, a political observer, called "Yin", questioned his future in Malaysia. He said, "I won't stay where I am not wanted, even though it is my birthright to do so. They have made it abundantly clear – not once, not twice but for sixty years.

"They discriminate against me ...