YB asked an interesting question : “Can Abdullah salvage his premiership to leave behind some honourable legacy to future generations?”

I think, even though Abdullah is most likely aware of this question, he may not have given much thought to this question to date, for the simple reason that this question is not his top priority so far. He is obviously too preoccupied with his own political survival, to even think of anything else… what’s best for the country is probably the last thing he thinks about.

However, if he were to give serious thoughts to this question, then, the best present he could give to Malaysia is a true and free “democracy” as some has suggested here.

There are many ways he could do this, but to tender his resignation together with the Cabinet appears to be most effective, so as to trigger fresh General Elections and allowing everyone the same and fair opportunity to contest in a free and fair manner. This implies concurrently cleaning up various election machinaries such as the Election Commission, the mass media, the Judiciary, the ACA, the Police, etc. etc. etc.

Of course, the likelihood of this happening is extremely remote. I think we are more likely to see Abdullah growing wings physically and fly to the moon unaided than this happening.

I noticed Jeffrey has been championing the idea of the former, which is to tender the resignation of both PM and Cabinet. In the unlikely event that this occurs, it is still highly likely that UMNO & BN will ensure that the odds continue to be tilted towards them, in that the MSM will continue to be biased, the ACA biased, the Police biased, the Election Commission biased, postal votes, phantom votes, etc. However, given that the momentum is now with Pakatan (or at least we like to believe so, despite the dissappointment with 916), this opportunity will truly be god-send.