KUALA LUMPUR (Politics Now!) - It looks like Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is adamant to 'outlaw' the 'P' word and stop it from being used to describe him.
According to the PM's senior political secretary, the political secretaries to the Cabinet ministers will submit a letter to de-facto Law Minister Azalina Othman urging the suspension of opposition MP Radzi Jidin after his recent outburst in Parliament,
Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin said this was in response to the Bersatu former senior minister's “rude behaviour” during the winding-up debate for the 12th Malaysia Plan mid-term review on September 19.
“You can criticise and have different views, but don’t insult,” Shamsul was quoted as saying by Free Malaysia Today.
Radzi had hurled the remark "Saya yakin Tambun peliwat" - or "I believe Tambun is a sodomist" - after Anwar infuriated him with suggestions of corruption.
Sodomy is the narcissistic Anwar's Achilles heel. He is the MP for Tambun and has been thrown into jail on 2 separate occasions over sodomy-linked convictions. Sodomy is forbidden in Islam and illegal in Malaysia.
Mean-spirited move may make Malays laugh at Anwar even more
Of late, his loyalists have irked civil society, rights activists as well as angered the public with overt bootlicking behavior to make a larger-than-life hero of Anwar.
According to the Malay Mail, Shamsul also said the letter would be sent to Azalina by October 6, before Parliament reconvenes on October 9.
Yet the rather mean-spirited move may backfire on Anwar as his hold on power weakens.
Political observers believe Malays voters may mock him all the more and snigger at his past sex scandals. Already many see him a 'tin kosong' or empty vessel and a temporary figure-head, whose legacy may well be his ineffectual performance.
Respect is won, not given for free
Indications are that he could go down in history as the greatest promise-breaker of them all and the PM who banned 'peliwat' and 'tin kosong' from the political vocabulary of the country..
Instead of carrying out reforms, Anwar regime has clamped down on free speech, refused to abolish the oppressive Sedition Act, break up corrupt monopolies, failed to stop breakneck inflation but instead has backpedaled on its much-touted anti-corruption platform by freeing Umno president and DPM Zahid Hamidi from corruption charges.
"Now that he is PM, Anwar has forgotten respect must be won - it is not given for free whether you're a sodomist or a tin kosong or a mediocre one-term or even less PM," a politician from the opposition told Politics Now!
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