Anwar, the celebrity PM?

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Publish date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023, 01:12 PM

Debate continues over Anwar Ibrahim's approach to the public seven months after he took over the top office in Putrajaya, with a former editor saying it is up to leaders whether to behave like celebrities or not.

Since becoming prime minister, Anwar has sought to adopt a "people-friendly" approach to the public, and is frequently seen singing onstage, dancing the joget with guests, greeting customers at eateries, and holding dialogues with university students.

For some, the impression is of a friendly and sociable prime minister who is easygoing and down-to-earth.

Others meanwhile see his behaviour as undignified and inappropriate for a leader of his stature, especially at official functions.

Zin Mahmud, a former senior editor of Utusan Malaysia, said that being people-friendly and down-to-earth meant going down to the ground to solve the people's problems.

"Not singing, dancing, or joking," he added.

"But if the prime minister likes to behave like a celebrity, that is up to him."

While Anwar has made efforts to come across as approachable, some of his attempts have backfired, most recently a joke he made during a session with university students in Negeri Sembilan.

At the event, he praised a female student for her delivery of her questions, and said he would have asked for her phone number had he been younger.

His remark was strongly criticised by the opposition despite Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek saying that it had been misunderstood.

Speaking to MalaysiaNow, Zin said a prime minister reflects the leadership of his country during his time.

He added that a prime minister's reputation would change according to the seasons.

"The prime ministers who came before also had their own problems," he said.

"There was both good and bad. I would not care to make comparisons as this would be unfair towards them."

https://www.malaysianow.com/news/2023/07/01/anwar-the-celebrity-pm

Discussions

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FortuneBull777

PM Anwar is a celebrity PM! Too busy seeking attention from rakyat! He is not that good looking and his talk talk talk is nonsense!

2023-07-01 14:39

ahbah

Can U please be a little polite to our PM even if U no got understand what he is doing now.

Winning the coming state elections is more about saving Malaysia from religious bigotry, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

2023-07-01 15:47

OnTime

surely u do not wish for evil extremists to run msia for they will definitely run this country to the ground

2023-07-01 16:24

DickyMe

Even Najib and former AG A pandi danced, what's the big deal?
PM, should not be people friendly??

2023-07-01 22:10

stockraider

Rubbish analysis loh!
Actually both PH & BN did not manage to arrest the green wave conservative narrative loh!

The election shows 50% support the unity Govt & 50% support PN loh!

This is a nice position to work on loh.....as Anwar still have more than 4 yrs to tackle the issue loh!

Just simply throwing money to jakim, tahfiz and mosques will not help loh....bcos PAS is entrenched in their islamic narratives mah!

Thus should start with the islamic madani concept instead.....make it a concept for all islamic education from schools, university, madrasah and all muslim teachers must know it, bcos this is a very progressive islamic concept that islamic world had achieve incredible success over 400 yrs in fact has become super power during this era loh!

"History of Madani & its Success " should be proud of by all muslim in the world loh!

During this period the muslim had gain so much success where it became a world super power and its religion spread all over the world and in fact many people wanted to be muslim, bcos they like & trust this madani progressive islamic government loh!

And Anwar rightfully adopted this " Madani concept" but the govt must educate its Ummah! l

Coming back to Anwar.....he is actually not popular with the conservative malays....he manage only to pull about 20% to 30% malay support loh!

He should start working on his unpopularity among the malays loh....start with the low hanging fruits " Permatang Puah".......win back his fortress loh!

2023-08-15 12:51

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