MP SPEAKS | Politics, it seems, is back - not that it has ever left us.

There are many paths for Pakatan Harapan to choose. However, I do think there are three mistakes that we need to avoid.

1. Harapan cannot wait for PN to implode

First, we cannot rely on Perikatan Nasional (PN) imploding.

Coalitions of expedience (which is what PN is) as opposed to coalitions based on principles (which it certainly is not) stay together only when their components believe that the alternatives are worse for them.

The individuals who brought about the downfall of the first Harapan federal government bolted because they would have been the “biggest losers” had the alliance succeeded and carried out the Buku Harapan manifesto.

Don’t get me wrong: the country and its people would have profited handsomely had Harapan gone the distance - but the cabal behind the “Sheraton Move” would have been left out in the cold and so that is why they went off to form PN...