{"id":2873,"date":"2020-02-20T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2020-02-20T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:15:18","slug":"anwar-pledges-no-racial-politics-by-playing-racial-politics-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Anwar pledges no racial politics by playing racial politics himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDITORIAL, Feb 20 &#8211; PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has promised to stop racial politics and make Malaysia a mature democracy when he assumes office as prime minister, online portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themalaysianinsight.com\/s\/220493\">The Malaysian Insight<\/a>\u00a0(TMI) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy task is to ensure that when I assume office, I will create this nation as a mature democracy (with the) rule of law, and assure the vast majority of the Malays that you will be secure,\u201d Anwar was quoted; playing racial politics himself.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar, who seems to be looking forward take over as prime minister from Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said his government will undertake all possible measures to ensure economic equality among Malaysia\u2019s races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want people to think that this is more political rhetoric. I believe in it, and I mean it,\u201d he said rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Dickson MP said the economy will be his priority when he becomes prime minister; As if the economy shouldn&#8217;t be any prime minister&#8217;s priority in today&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>He said measures would be taken to encourage domestic and foreign direct investments (FDI) among others; As anyone who would want to be a prime minister would have said.<\/p>\n<p>Reiterating his stance on a needs-based policy, Anwar said bread-and-butter issues will be another area of focus under his government.<\/p>\n<p>He said to ensure a fair distribution of wealth, the economy will have to be vibrant and policies must be clear; as any Tan, Din and Hari could have said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Mujahidin Zulkiffli<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITORIAL, Feb 20 &#8211; PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has promised to stop racial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","tag-anwar-ibrahim"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/936572_10151876736111840_1466948354_n.jpg",640,427,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=1066\" rel=\"category\">Editorial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}