First Quarter of 2020 ~ A Retrospective : The Never Ending Story

The year 2020 have been really interesting and we only just got to the first half of it. I had so much to share here about the happenings in my life, my country and even the world for the past six months that I decided to break the post into a few smaller pieces for it to be more bearable for the readers hahaha.

I will start with the ULTIMATE political turmoil that the country had ever seen. This was far more interesting than the change in Government after the General Election in May 2018. I will not talk about politics ~ it is just not my cup of tea. But here are some of the fascinating findings that I found from the whole ordeal:

The-One-Man-Cabinet

Following the unprecedented change in the Government on February 24th 2020 with the abrupt resignation of Malaysia’s 7^th (and also 4^th Prime Minister) the country was left without Cabinet Ministers for a little over a fortnight. During the period, Tun M was appointed by YDPA as the Interim PM, resulting the Cabinet to be literally a one-man-show until  TSMY wass appointed as the 8^th PM on March 1^st. The Cabinet-less situation remained the same however for another week until the new coalition was established and the new Cabinet members was announced on March 9^th. And I just had an interesting picture to share in reminiscence of that perhaps once-in-a-lifetime period.

Taken from Kabinet Malaysia website on February 27th, 2020

During the Cabinet-hiatus, the Government machinery operated normally, with a little exception with regards to adopting new policies, allocation etc. that would require the Cabinet decision. I myself found that the situation did not really affected us that much, except for two ministerial meetings that had been scheduled earlier which we had been labouring on for over a month had to be called off. It was too late to cancel the food for one of the meetings ~ so we ended up having a sumptuous tea one evening hahaha.  

The Prime Minister Chronicle

Here it is ~ Malaysia's 7^th PM was also the country's 4^th PM who dismissed his deputy (the 5^th PM in waiting) back on 1998. Then within the duration of 15 years, the country had its 5^th PM and 6^th PM respectively. The 6^th PM also dismissed his deputy in 2015 (whom later became the 8^th PM).

On 2018, the 4^th PM joined force with 5^th PM in waiting and together they had made a huge comeback in politics and succeeded to topple the Government (in the 14th General Election) lead by the 6^th PM who is also the son of the 2^nd PM. 

The 4^th PM lead the new coalition as the 7^th PM with the promise to hand over the post to the 5^th & now 7^th PM in waiting when the time comes. But the coalition/party continuously pushing the 7^th PM to do so which resulting the 7^th PM to tender his resignation after 22 months holding the office. The 7^th PM was then appointed as the Interim PM (7^3/4 PM) whilst the decision was being made on who get the most mandate to be the 8^th PM. Unexpectedly (well at least to the general public), the deputy of the 6^th PM who also had served in the Cabinet under the 4^th PM and 7^th PM was appointed as the 8^th PM, much to the dismay of the 4^th PM @7^th PM @ 7^3/4 PM and of course the 5^th, 7^{th ,} 8^th and now 9^th PM in waiting.

Get it? Confusing right? As a person who got the chance to witness it all, I found it is interesting and at times entertaining ~ I guess there is never a dull moment in the national politics. But good luck to the candidate of matapelajaran Sejarah in 2070 to understand and actually memorize the chronology! 😂

Well, now that the 8^th PM got his Cabinet line-up all geared up and got back to work running the country since its inception in early March, the “Who’s Going to be Malaysia’s Next PM” seemed to be a never-ending national saga until now.

What a wise man ~ Source: Google Image

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