Will Najib be a ' better ' Prime Minister ?

Some smart, seasoned and multi-purpose survivalists have already been talking, albeit still very discreetly, about another round of succession in Umno and the government just after two year of PM Abdullah coming into power. For out of the blue, the Chinese-language Oriental Daily published several eulogies of Tun Abdul Razak, the second Prime Minister of Malaysia and father of current DPM Najib Tun Razak, yesterday and today.

Even one young DAP researcher also joined in the chorus of singing hallelujah to Najib's father. I don't know if this rookie's very 'Umnoish' views on the chief architect of the New Economic Policy (NEP) reflect the collective position or strategy of the top political leadership of his party which has been campaiging against the NEP since 1970.

So, the big question now is, assuming such a rapid movement of succession is possible operationally, whether Najib Tun Razak would make a 'better' Prime Minister without Umno's ethno-authoritarian ideology, moral character and the political culture of corruption, cronyism and nepotism as well as the country's bad law and policies like the Internal Security Act, Universities and University Colleges Act, Printing Presses and Publications Act, Police Act, Sedition Act, education policy and race-based affirmative action programme, etc being amended, changed or abolished altogether.

The assumption that such a rapid movement of succession is operationally possible is, of course, debatable.