MP SPEAKS | Urgent action is needed to infuse Malaysians with a new national consensus and pull ourselves up from our bootstraps if the country is not to spiral down the trajectory to a kleptocratic, kakistocratic and failed state in 2040.

In the final days of 2020, there is evidence galore that we have failed in Vision 2020 to make Malaysia a great world-class nation which is united, harmonious, democratic, just, prosperous and capable of leveraging on its unique position as a confluence of four great civilisations to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

We have failed the Merdeka Constitution 1957, the Malaysian Constitution 1963 and the Rukun Negara 1970 to create the basis of a great Malaysian nation.

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