Maszlee’s appointment ‘political suicide’ for Pakatan, says petition

Mikha Chan Mikha Chan Updated 4 years ago · Published on 19 May 2019 2:00PM · 7 Comments

An online petition calling for Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik to be replaced says he is a newbie in politics with little to no experience in any administrative position. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 19, 2019.

A PETITION calling for Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik to be replaced described his appointment to the key ministry as “political suicide” for Pakatan Harapan.

The change.org petition said Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s popularity has taken a hit due to his failure to listen to the people’s complaints on Maszlee’s “nonsensical policies”.

“Maszlee is a newbie in politics and has little to no experience in any administrative position. Even his PhD has nothing to do with public administration.

“To expect him to run a ministry so important to all Malaysians is like bringing the PH government to political suicide,” said the petition, which has gotten more than 2,700 signatures of its targeted 5,000 since it was started three weeks ago.

It cited Maszlee’s proposals for a switch from white school shoes to black, a cashless payment system in schools, petrol stations on university grounds, and swimming lessons to be made a co-curricular activity.

It also pointed to his statement last year urging religious teachers to make Sabah and Sarawak their “medan dakwah”, or new fronts in Islamic propagation.

Stephen Ng, who started the petition, cited an instance where Maszlee sent his press officer to meet a parents’ group.

“This is an insult of the highest order to us as parents, who are concerned about what is happening to our children’s schools.

“We are concerned that the PH government will lose many of its votes because of this minister you have appointed.”

This is not the first petition on change.org calling for the minister to be replaced.

One petition started by “Citizen of Malaysia” six months ago got just 19 signatures of its targeted 100.

Another was started by Roland Sia for Movement for Change Sarawak. It collected 1,077 signatures out of its goal of 1,500.

One petition in support of Maszlee, started shortly after his appointment last year, received 216,008 signatures of its targeted 300,000.

Also last year, a petition calling for Dr Mahathir to take on the education portfolio was started. It got close to 121,500 signatures of its 150,000 target. – May 19, 2019.

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  • Give him time lah....even tanam pisang kena tunggu tunggu process dia. ..keluar jantung etc....no one is perfect. Whats wrong with kasut hitam? What so good with kasut putih? Both ada con and pro....!

    Posted 4 years ago by Abdul Murad Othman · Reply

    • One whole year and he is no better than a carrot. Enough time is given. Tun M must change the Minister now. Our childrens future is in his hands, we want him out now!

      Posted 4 years ago by Elyse Gim · Reply

  • Come the next GE the people will know the choice of Stay or Change.

    Posted 4 years ago by Danial Abdullah · Reply

  • Tun thought Islamic credentials will help. He is obviously wrong. Confucianism should be the way to go if he wants a society that is humane as well as progressive at the same time.


    Progressiveness is deficient in almost all religions.

    Posted 4 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Maszlee made too many stupid mistakes.. instead of learning and asking advise from senior ministers, like what Muhyiddin Yasin advised... Maszlee is stubborn and egotistic. He makes decisions from his heart.. he made too many mistakes. This just goes to show that he does not have the qualities and capabilities of a minister..
    Further, his ego is preventing and making him adamant not to listen to ppls advise and sentiments..
    He is like...I know everything.. People need not tell me what to do!! I know what is good for the people and students.. This kind of minister who does not listen to the people in the ground and makes his own decision cannot survive.
    Dr M please la, replace this clown before you lose all your PH supporters..

    Posted 4 years ago by Kampung Boy · Reply

  • We need to get rid of this incompetent buffoon asap to prevent him from further damaging our children's and Country's future.

    Posted 4 years ago by Yoon Kok · Reply

  • the Archie Bunker of Malaysia....a bigot..

    Posted 4 years ago by The Lone Ranger ... · Reply