Will Umno accepts sex tainted as minister?

Will BN or more specifically Umno, accepts a sex scandal tainted politician back into the Cabinet?

It is interesting to note the re-entry of a sex scandal tainted politician into a high level position in his party. The choice of the party delegates to elect a politician who openly admits being adulterous and quits his government and political positions in a huff invites comments on the wisdom and mentality of the delegates.

Even though the politician was elected with less than 50% of the votes, the support he got had vindicated him in one way or another. It shows that about half of the delegates had put the difference between personal and public affairs and judge the person based on his capability in the party and the government. His sexual waywardness which ends up in a sex DVD distributed for public consumption was not an issue to them. The delegates that voted for him prefers to acknowledge his public service rather than his personal service!

That’s what delegates from this school of thoughts wants to believe.

On the other side of the coin it can also be deduced that the delegates way of thinking are also based on their personal beliefs and also practice. Will it be too preposterous to derive that the delegates that voted for him also had the tendency to be sexually wayward as the elected one. Are these delegates choice reflects their own personal intention too? The message the delegates want to put across is that it is alright to commit adultery and bring disrepute to their family and party. Just don’t get caught doing it and if you do, all one’s need to do is admit it in front of the press and TV cameras. Then in an instance it turns from zero to hero.

Indirectly it also reflects the party’s stand – go ahead and commits adultery; you are most welcome to lead us doing it after that!

The contribution of this sex scandal tainted politician will now moves a step higher – the Cabinet. Based on convention he is expected be appointed a full minister by the PM of the BN government upon recommendation by his party president. But there will be some criteria or even obstacles that needed to be sort out before he can become a minister.

First, whether he himself prepared to accepts the nomination. With his tainted background, will he be able to perform his duties as before? Will his re-entry into the cabinet brings good tidings to his party or will it dragged the party to worse and lower ebb? As an old man he ought to be able wiser in his judgment.

Secondly, he is neither an MP nor Senator which means he can’t be appointed as Minister unless he becomes either one. The easier one will be via the back door i.e. to make him a Senator. The other choice is for him to contest a by-election and wins it. That means someone needs to vacate a seat for him. The choice of seat will be obvious, which is his former seat that was handed over to his son in the recent general election. It sounds very much a family affair which he openly criticized during the party election campaign. That’s OK! He just requires admitting it openly that he practices nepotism and his party people are expected to accept it. The difficult part will be to convince the constituency voters especially during this political climate when Umno may be too busy and reluctant to campaign for a sex tainted candidate to fish for the Malay-Muslim votes in the constituency.

Thirdly, even if he is appointed as Senator or elected as an MP in a by-election he will face the final hurdle to walk into the Cabinet. With his tainted background, which Umno PM will want to take the risk to bring in a person whom committed “zina” (adultery) into an “Islamic” country Cabinet? It is not that the other ministers are as holy as a saint or all are ulamaks (as mentioned by the politician previously) or without any hint of sexual misconduct. The problem is no ministers ever admitted berzina (adultery) with other women who are not their legally married wife.

PAS will have a field day attacking Umno on the un-Islamic nature of the Cabinet. Will Umno and the PM take the risks for the sake of one politician and party which Umno considers non-consequential in the running of the country? - Loka