What should be PM Anwar's priorities?

KUALA LUMPUR: He needs to be a PM for 100% of Malaysians, not just 38% PH voters and 22% BN voters.

He needs to especially assure the 30% voters who support PN that their voices would be heard in Parliament and through state governments.

His government won't last or work if the sizeable minority constantly opposes the government's policies. To focus on Economy, he must get the politics right.

Here are the things he should do/announce of doing:

1. Recognising a PN shadow Cabinet with commensurate salary, resource and information access

2. Convening a meeting with All Premier/MBs/CMs to express his government's intention to work with all states without partisan discrimination, assuring the Sarawak, Sabah and the 4 PAS governments. He however should refrain from making promises that he may not be able to deliver.

3. Commencing the process of partitioning Public Prosecution from the AGC and until then a moratorium on any prosecution of cases not involving political violence that may be misconstrued as political witchhunt on opposition.

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* Professor Wong is a political scientist at both Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (JSC) and Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia (JCI) at Sunway University.

**The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of Astro AWANI.