You have publicly pledged that BN would not form a state government with DAP if BN is returned to power in the upcoming state election.
Your pledge is obviously made on the assumption that you believed BN / UMNO will secure enough seats to enable it form a majority on its own.
BN has no reason to call for an election when Johor’s state election is only due by June 2027, while Melaka’s is due by February 2027.
As a business weekly wrote, you are indeed highly popular among Johoreans as voters prefer your hands-on, down-to-earth leadership and close ties to the state royalty.
And BN is not threatened at all in Johor as it holds 40 of the total 56 seats in the Johor state assembly with the rest held by PH (12), PN (3) and MUDA (1).
It is common knowledge that your decision to call for an early election in the state appears less about Johor itself and more about gauging voter sentiment ahead of the 16th General Election.
All the political pundits and analysts including research houses have projected that BN is expected to secure approximately 38–42 seats, maintaining a comfortable supermajority in Johor.
What if the election results did not turn out as you had projected on the night of the election?
Instead of retaining those 40 seats and possibly securing new seats as projected, what if the impossible happen?
That BN/UMNO lose some of the seats where they are the incumbents in the coming state elections and what you managed to retain is insufficient for you to form a majority?
Impossible?
As they said, politics is the art of making the impossible possible.
It means politics is about doing what you can.
It is not about doing everything you want.
You are projecting that BN/UMNO will not only return with the 40 seats you currently held but probably with a few new seats thrown in.
Or to put it bluntly, you believe, under your leadership, Johoreans are returning in drove to support BN / UMNO and for the coalition to lead the state.
What if, under this scenario, the only political coalition that is prepared to work with you, on the easy to explain excuse that the cooperation is merely an extension of the national framework of the madani government, is PH which by the way, comprised of PKR and DAP?
Are you going to reconsider and withdraw your earlier pledge of not working with DAP and thus by extension, PH?
Since you have crossed out DAP and nothing would change your mind, the obvious choice then, as you need their cooperation to form a majority, would be working with PAS and Bersatu.
Are you ok with that i.e you are dead set against working with DAP but ok with working with either PAS or Bersatu or both?
Your clarification is much needed for clarity before election day.
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