Gerakan wading back into race, religious issues, says analyst

Free Malaysia Today

Lau Zhe Wei says the PN component is under pressure to woo non-Malays, but that moving away from identity politics is impractical.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/02/07/gerakan-wading-back-into-race-religious-issues-says-analyst/  Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/02/07/serang-dap-berkait-agama-langgar-naratif-baharu-gerakan-kata-penganalisis/  Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #Gerakan #DAP #Race #Support

Transcript

00:00A political analyst says Garakkan appears to have backtracked from its endeavor to move

00:06away from issues surrounding race and religion after a senior party leader attacked DAP for

00:11not opposing the government's Islamic and Malay agendas.

00:15Lao Zhou Wei of the International Islamic University Malaysia said Garakkan seemed sincere

00:20in wanting to set a new political narrative, but that its goal was impractical.

00:25He also said regardless of the narratives Garakkan chooses to focus on, the party struggled

00:29to win over the non-Malay vote will likely continue.

00:32Academy Nusantara's Azmi Hassan said Garakkan was under pressure to win over the support

00:37of non-Muslims, especially the Chinese, and the easiest way to do this was to vilify DAP.

00:42However, he said Garakkan should reflect more deeply on why it struggles to attract non-Malay

00:47voters, unlike DAP, which continues to retain its support, despite working with UMNO.

00:53Garakkan Deputy President Ohtong Keong was recently reported by Oriental Daily as having

00:58accused DAP of compromising its integrity for the sake of power in the federal government.

01:03Last month, Garakkan President Dominic Lau announced his party's desire to shift its

01:07focus away from race and religious issues towards universal concerns.

01:13Dhanesh Rajareza, FMT News.

Category

Transcript

Recommended