In his speech revealing the Cabinet line-up, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said each ministry had to prove their early achievements within 100 days. He said that after stressing the Cabinet needed to have short and long-term plans.
That 100-day period might have been acceptable under normal circumstances. And it might be acceptable, if the Cabinet had a new line-up.
But this Cabinet is the same as the last one that failed miserably, with minor changes inspiring no confidence. The clueless Minister of Education is still the same. Ditto for MITI, and almost all other ministries. One improvement might be the promotion of Khairy Jamaluddin to the Health Ministry, but this could be negated by the silly switch: the ridiculous former Health Minister now takes over Khairy’s old portfolio. The health ministry under Adham Baba had been the source of dark comedy since March 2020, and only god knows what the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has in store now. Good luck all the technologists out there.
So unchanged the line-up, that it is impossible to divorce the failure and incompetence of the previous Cabinet from the new one. The Prime Minister himself is the source of the current Covid-19 wave with his lack-of-quarantine mistake.
The largely disappointing line-up does not deserve space to breathe. This government does not deserve 100 days. They should be judged now. They must be put under pressure.
For heaven’s sake, there is an ongoing pandemic and we just do not have 100 days. Thousands have died. If this government needs 100 days more, then we collectively as Malaysians have made a mistake and will pay a heavy price for it.
