MUDA Is Taking Cues From Syed Saddiq
MUDA for all its bravado has played a good game – garnering significant engagement and traction even compared to the old stalwarts, PKR, DAP and Amanah. DAP and Amanah have truly put their backs behind MUDA, guiding the party’s candidate even as some within the coalition remain uneasy around them. This uneasiness however is sourced from MUDA’s constant gaffes and Muda announcement that it will field the party’s state information chief Rasid Abu Bakar in Larkin, putting it on a collision course with PKR. Despite Muda president Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman previously said the party will not contest in any Johor state seats that Opposition parties are defending. This however is not the end of these gaffes, as even more recently Muda’s candidate for the Tenang seat, Lim Wei Jiet, as he feels that the New Economic Policy (NEP) which had been abused. Now whether this will be accepted by voters is whole different answer – but given party President MUDA Saddiq’s own experiences with promises to vo...