IF Pakatan Harapan has failed to protect Malay rights, then Mohamed Nazri Aziz should sue the government, said Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday.

The home minister challenged the Barisan Nasional secretary-general who criticised PH for appointing non-Malays as chief justice, attorney-general and finance minister in a ceramah in Beranang, Semenyih, on Saturday.

“Whatever the PM has done does not conflict with the constitution. Nazri is a lawyer, if we have contradicted the constitution, please take us to court,” the Bersatu president said at a meet-the-people session in Sg Kembung Hilir ahead of the Semenyih by-election on Saturday.

The four parties in PH first signed a commitment to ensure four things that encompassed the constitution – the special position of the Malays; the status of the Malay rulers; Islam as the religion of the state; and Bahasa Malaysia as the national language, he said.

Instead of race, Nazri should focus on the problem of trust, Muhyiddin said, pointing to the many ongoing court cases linked to the former prime minister Najib Razak’s BN administration.

“Who was our former finance minister? Najib Razak. He is Malay and yet he committed crimes against the Malays.”

Muhyiddin said appointing Lim Guan Eng as finance minister is nothing new as Henry Lee Hau Shik and Tan Siew Sin served in the same post under Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak.

“Yes, he has powers but he has to get the approval of the PM and the consensus from the cabinet, especially when it comes to implementing something related to finance.”

Muhyiddin urged voters to give PH more time to fulfil its manifesto promises as the pact inherited legacy issues from BN.

“We are trying to resolve the (more than RM1 trillion) debt problem, to bring investment and jobs, to help the needy and the B40. We are finding ways to resolve cost-of-living and bread-and-butter issues.

“But you cannot compare us to BN, we are doing what is in our capacity as we do not steal.”

Nazri on Saturday also accused PH of being weak to the point of surrendering the rights of the Malays to others.

He is now under investigation for sedition.

Nazri said his views have been misrepresented by a pro-government media outlet to portray him as a racist. – February 27, 2019.