YOURSAY | Sacked from Bersatu; poetic justice for Mahathir

YOURSAY | 'He set a trap for his enemies. Unfortunately, he fell into it together with his foes.'

Dr M, Mukhriz and three others' Bersatu memberships 'nullified'

Anak JB: Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, this is the poetic justice for believing and surrounding yourself with traitors and for promoting your blue-eye boy Azmin Ali to check Anwar Ibrahim and not wanting to give up your prime minister’s post as promised.

You overplayed your card and you did not know your enemy within. This act of treachery from your enemies within was unprecedented and it made Si Kitul, the ultimate Malay traitor, very tame in comparison.

The traitors thumped their chests and shrieked until their lungs burst to hoodwink you to believe that they wanted you to remain as PM for the full-term, but ended up throwing you under the bus.

Without a party platform, they know you will not thrive. You have disappointed your many supporters who voted for you and gave you a second chance to make it right, but you were still pandering to your ex-Umno and Malay loyalists who had deserted you and did not support you.

In the process, you lost the goodwill of the many Malaysians who voted for change.

I pray and hope you will retire from politics and let Pakatan Harapan do their soul searching and try to rejuvenate themselves.

William Tell: This is ‘finito’ for Mahathir. It took a long time to come but it was overdue anyway. It is time for Malaysia to move on without him.

He has been the bane of Malaysian politics - a man so untrustworthy and devoid of any principles or redeeming feature.

Now we can concentrate on the business of reforming this country. He no longer has any options and it is best for him to bide his time and fade away.

Milshah: I laugh at those who say Mahathir is finished with his sacking from Bersatu.

He defeated Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Abdul Razak when he was out of Umno, what more Bersatu?

This is business as usual for the grandmaster of Malaysian politics. The one who wants to checkmate Mahathir will be the one being checkmated.

Only Mahathir can pull this off. The legend continues. And he defeated Tunku Abdul Rahman too, after his expulsion from Umno.

Anonymous_1544340881: What a farce. The party constitution states that in order to sack a party member, he or she is found “to have declared their intention to leave the party or has formally joined another political party”.

The five did not join another party, nor have they indicated that they intended to leave. In fact, Bersatu deputy president Mukhriz Mahathir is challenging Muhyiddin for the party presidency and Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman is running to retain his position as Youth chief.

For a PM whose Perikatan Nasional (PN) government keeps saying “do not rock the boat and don't play politics” during this Covid-19 crisis, they have no qualms about firing competent government-linked company (GLC) heads, overthrowing established state governments and now sacking those who oppose them within the party.

It is all the more ironic when they continually justify their reason for leaving Harapan was to ensure Mahathir would remain PM until GE15.

Not only did they not support Mahathir as PM, they have also now even sacked him from the party.

I pose a simple question: if they can lie and betray those who mentored them, supported them and helped them, how can the people even trust them with high offices that come with so much responsibility?

Mazilamani: Why are many pretending to feel sorry for Mahathir? The fact that he resigned to cause the collapse of Harapan is reason enough to terminate his membership with Bersatu. He provided no reason or explanation to Bersatu's central committee for his resignation.

Mahathir not only abandoned the party but also the nation. Fortunately, the King, in his wisdom, advised Mahathir to serve as an interim PM until a successor was chosen.

But despite being an interim PM, didn't Mahathir conspire to become the 8th PM?

Those who followed him to leave the party also did not provide any reason. They just left the party, though none may have submitted official letters of resignation. It indicated that they wanted no association with the party.

They also chose to sit separately from party MPs during the recent Parliament sitting - a clear confirmation of their split from Bersatu.

Are these not enough reasons to sack them? Will the central committee not have done the same if Muhyiddin, Azmin Ali and others left the party in a similar manner?

Mahathir and the four others deserved the sack.

CES: Mahathir set a trap for his enemies. Unfortunately, he fell into it together with his foes.

He planted the seeds of discord in PKR and DAP, but it backfired and his own party is now imploding with his sacking. What poetic justice.

How can he face the world? Even if he is technically right that you can’t sack someone without due process, this action by Bersatu is humiliating.

Mahathir should just pack it in and call the MACC and open all his books.

Majority Must Safeguard Minority Rights: Sacked from Umno in 1969. Step down as PM in 2003. Resigned from Umno in 2008.

Quit Umno again in 2016. Resigned again as PM in 2020. Resigned from Bersatu also in 2020. And now sacked from Bersatu.

Is there anything unpredictable about this man?

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