The idea of a non-Malay becoming Prime Minister can only be entertained once factors that divide Malaysians are eliminated, says Pejuang’s Mukhriz Mahathir

The idea of a non-Malay becoming Prime Minister can only be entertained once factors that divide Malaysians are eliminated, says Pejuang’s Mukhriz Mahathir.

He adds, among these factors is the existence of vernacular schools, which he says causes division among children.

“Our founding fathers would not have agreed to let the British-era vernacular schools continue operating well beyond Merdeka as they would know it would create more divisions between the people,” the Pejuang president said in a Facebook post.

He says there is a need to “allow our children to learn, play and mingle with each other until the differences between them become celebrated”. 

“Only then can we hope to see a non-Malay as nothing other than a Malaysian, not coloured by their ethnic background,” he adds.