How party-hopping brings down state govts


Chan Kok Leong

Muhyiddin Yassin (centre) and Mohamed Azmin Ali (right) with other political leaders at Sheraton Hotel in Petaling Jaya on February 23. Widely known as the ‘Sheraton Move’, the event is seen as the beginning of the end of Pakatan Harapan’s time in Putrajaya. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 13, 2020.

VOTERS are hopping mad that the politicians they voted for in the 2018 general election are jumping like frogs to change the balance of power and state governments since the “Sheraton Move” about two months ago.

In February, Muhyiddin Yassin pulled his party, Bersatu, out of the Pakatan Harapan federal government, bringing it down to form another one with his erstwhile political foes, Umno and PAS, and becoming prime minister in the process.


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  • Yes, time to move to proportional representation in voting. That would be fairer and that would put an end to all the frogs who get rich immorally and greedily by hopping. This has to be discouraged. Otherwise enact laws to prevent party hopping

    Posted 3 years ago by Mike Mok

  • This party hopping is really a nuisance and must be put to a stop to it. It is morally wrong to be elected as a public representative on the ticket of a party only to change ship during that tenure. We Malaysian would like to see which political party is going to do the right thing by championing this cause. We are not saying as public elected representative you cant change party but there should be a proper route to that and one that doesnt betrayed the people who voted for you and certainly not during the tenure period that you are currently serving. We want to see the political parties from all sides to come to terms to put to an end of these seesaw movements, which is morally wrong not to mention the pay-off done behind the scene. What we have here is the very people we trusted than to represents us at the angus house of Parliament are the exact people playing monkeys or should I say frogging.

    Posted 3 years ago by Teruna Kelana