MP SPEAKS | The political crisis in Perak has ended with a new mentri besar from Umno. What are the lessons to be learnt from the six-day Perak political crisis?

Firstly, the Perak crisis is likely to be the last political crisis in 2020, which has seen many political crises including the Sheraton Move in February which toppled a legitimate Pakatan Harapan government and replaced it with a backdoor illegitimate Perikatan Nasional (PN) government.

Also on the list of political crises was the Sabah election which sparked the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic which has yet to be brought under control and also the controversial voting of Budget 2021 in Parliament on Nov 26.

But we should go further back to the historic 14th general election on May 9, 2018 which toppled a then seemingly invincible BN government and the kleptocratic regime of then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.

After the May 9 watershed, the Umno leadership had been obsessed with one objective – to restore Umno's hegemony in Malaysian politics and its decision to misuse the information age to unleash a most dangerous and poisonous campaign of falsehood and fake news to make the Malays in the country believe that their rights, position, and future are at stake because DAP is in power...