It was interesting reading Khalid Samad's account of what happened during the Harapan Presidential Council meeting ultimately led to the Sheraton Move and Dr M resigning from his post as PM.
Khalid is clearly of the opinion that Harapan should carry on their cooperation with Dr M, who in Khalid's calculation, is more of a friend than a foe.
Khalid is wrong. Dr M might not be foe but he's certainly not a friend of Harapan. Let's just look at the facts, shall we?
Fact #1: Dr M never accepted Harapan's multiracial approach. What he wanted most was for Harapan to emulate the BN approach where a Malay party dominated. He outright called for MPs from UMNO and PAS to join Bersatu so that it could become a Malay mega-party.
Fact #2: He was never sincere about passing the baton to Anwar. It was he who elevated Azmin so that he could pit him against Anwar.
Fact #3: Although he did not orchestrate the Sheraton Move, he knew Muhyiddin was plotting this all along and did nothing to nip it in the bud. All he said to Muhyiddin was to put this off until the criminal trials of Najib and gang were over. Oh, and there was APEC too. After APEC, you could do whatever you want, he told Muhyiddin.
Fact #4: After the Sheraton Move had happened, Harapan leaders invited him to come back as their leader and help them gain back control of the government. He refused, in favor of a unity government concept whereby everyone would be beholden to him and he would be accountable to no one.
These four things are indisputable. They are not opinions but facts. In many of the points, Dr M have confirmed them in his own words.
I've said it before, I'll say it a million times: Harapan has got to move forward and aim to win the next GE without Bersatu and without Warisan as well (which has to date only pledged their allegiance to Dr M not to Harapan).
Politics is the art of the impossible and while it's hard to imagine a scenario where Harapan and Dr M could work together again, it could very well happen. But given that Harapan now has the upper hand by a mile, it should impose one key condition if Dr M wants to join forces again to oust Perikatan.
Harapan should insist that if they are to work together to achieve this, it would be Anwar who would be made PM. Dr M could be made senior minister or minister mentor or anything you want to call it. But the PM has to be Anwar.
If Dr M is sincere about wanting to oust Muhyiddin for collaborating with kleptocrats, he should be willing to accept Anwar as PM, if that is the condition to make this happen. If Dr M is not willing to accept this, it means he'd rather accept Muhyiddin working with kleptocrats.
Since Dr M continues to claim that he is opposed to working with kleptocrats, Harapan should call his bluff and ask him to help get Anwar installed as PM.
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