“If we do not learn what we did wrong in the 2018 to 2020 period, there is a much greater chance we will repeat the mistake if ever we get a second opportunity at forming the government. And there could be a second opportunity!”

 - PSM chairperson Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj

COMMENT | Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj has expanded on his short presentation at a recent forum and, as usual, it is a clear-eyed view of race and economic politics in Malaysia. Readers are encouraged to read his views.

The good doctor was never a polemist and his views, as indeed all of PSM’s political operatives, are informed from the trenches. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claims that Pakatan Harapan needs a doable manifesto and if he is really serious, nay, if Harapan is really committed to a sustainable refomasi, they should take heed of what Jeyakumar has written.

People assume that corruption happens in a vacuum and, yes, the kind of corruption that racial elitism breeds is because of a sense of entitlement, but democracy encourages a form of corruption that is rectifiable if the electorate vote for MPs with the political will. Jeyakumar as a two-term MP explained this issue as below.

He had said...