Former PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli is trying to claim that he is free from a fixation on the premiership and taking a swipe at Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

However, the way in which Rafizi reacted to losing his position in party polls last year, indicates that he himself is gunning for the nation’s top job.

What’s worse is that Rafizi himself said in September 2018 that making Anwar prime minister was his goal.

It’s also no surprise that Malaysiakini is playing up Rafizi’s current tantrum without doing its homework, despite the fact that it carried the story eight years ago.

What’s clear is that Rafizi’s petulant behaviour that followed his party election defeat showed no commitment to economic reforms.

Instead his actions were self-sabotaging, and he even brought a cohort of PKR MPs along with him.

Now that some of them have taken up posts in Anwar’s cabinet, Rafizi is behaving more and more like a sore loser who is on a regular diet of sour grapes and spoilt milk.

“Unlike Anwar whose sole preoccupation in life is to become a prime minister, I am blessed because I am very happy if I can retire quietly just like any other person, enough to survive quietly.

“So, I don’t have his, and other similar politicians’, burden,” Rafizi said in an X post over the weekend.

Outspoken professor Tajuddin Rasdi hit back sharply at Rafizi’s latest outburst, describing him as “a bitter man with a small heart” and likening him to “the Grinch” at the end of his career.

We can only hope that those who are committed to reforms stay with the party and the Pakatan Harapan coalition.

Those who follow Rafizi’s unstable path should take a lesson from the MPs and assemblymen who danced to the tune of Azmin Ali during the Sheraton Move.

Where are they now?

Nowhere.

By: Jeffri Saling
Jeffri Saling is a sharp, unapologetic political critic who delights in slicing through Malaysia’s political theatre with wit and precision. His commentary blends strategic insight with razor-edged sarcasm, exposing contradictions, deflating egos and dismantling neatly packaged narratives across the political aisle.