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Friday, May 22, 2015

Who’s backing Muyhiddin?

The DPM has made a bold statement against 1MDB, and it's unlikely that he did it without support.
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muhyiddin,who behind
Deputy Prime Minister Muyhiddin Yassin is in the spotlight, and every word he says is being lapped up by those in Umno who are tired of the Najib administration and its never-ending stream of gaffes.
Many have come to believe that the DPM is Mahathir’s pick as sucessor to Najib since he grasped the brass ring and came out with heavy criticism against Najib’s pet project, 1MDB. But Muhyiddin never made his intention clear. That is, until now, with a leaked video showing him criticising 1MDB and its leaders at a closed-door session with several key Umno members. In the video, Muyhiddin called for the 1MDB board to be sacked and for the police to investigate the various scandals surrounding the controversial fund.
The video in and of itself is not shocking. What is remarkable, however, is that Muhyiddin subsequently said he stood by the words he is heard speaking in the video. He told reporters in Parliament that yes, he did indeed call for the 1MDB board to be fired, and yes, it was in line with everything he had said before in regard to 1MDB. In no uncertain terms, he has made it clear to Najib exactly where he stands in the schism between the PM and Mahathir.
The real question now, however, is where the other members of Najib’s Cabinet stand on the issue. It’s hard to imagine Muyhiddin acting without support from some very significant names currently within the government itself, and Najib surely knows that Muyhiddin is not alone.
So did the Cabinet, or at least some of its members, endorse Muyhiddin’s statement? If so, Najib’s situation is far more dire than we have believed thus far as there is no way to know exactly which hand hides a dagger even as he sits among the ministers who are supposed to be his confidantes.
Najib may be fighting back, but he is besieged on all sides. The 1MDB has indeed become his Achilles’ heel, with his opponents lining up to take potshots at it, and with its branding inextricably tied to Najib’s own. The attacks on 1MDB are bound to be ever more cutting with each additional day that Najib sits in his office, and they will not let up until he decides he has had enough.

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