COMMENT | In an attempt to deflect blame from the current Pakatan Harapan government and to give a patina of legitimacy using pragmatism to the mandarins of the state, Andrew Sia wrote a disingenuous piece laying the blame for Ahmad Zahid Hamidi walking free on the unfair weightage of the electoral system.

He also mentioned the voters of Sabah and Sarawak who support corrupt leaders, urban voters who apparently in Sia’s eyes, do not read reform-based political manifestos and of course, the “Green Wave”.

Zahid is walking free because Harapan supporters, the majority of whom are non-Malays, courtesy of the DAP, allowed this pact...