NOVEMBER 30 ― Malaysia’s recent general election was full of upsets and surprises. Old political certainties were up-ended, and Anwar Ibrahim finally won the job he has...
NOVEMBER 30 ― Malaysia’s recent general election was full of upsets and surprises. Old political certainties were up-ended, and Anwar Ibrahim finally won the job he has aspired to for decades.
The Barisan Nasional coalition, led by Umno, would command much of the middle ground and win. Opposition would be polarised between PAS and DAP. Notably, since GE14, Bersatu has changed both its leader and its political affiliation. Bersatu had been formed before the 2018 elections as Mahathir’s instrument to help bring down his old party Umno, in concert with PH, which combined Anwar’s largely Malay-based, but in outlook multiculturalist, PKR and the doctrinally multiculturalist and secularist DAP.
Muhyiddin firmly rejected a proposal for his PAS-backed PN coalition to work with PH, in a way that struck many as rude to the Agong. Yet elsewhere quiet and detailed negotiations between Anwar’s PH and key figures in the once-dominant but now humiliated Umno-BN team were bearing fruit. When the Agong saw the possibility of an entente between Anwar’s PH and the chastened Umno-BN group, from whose front line some failed leaders and those in legal jeopardy were ready to stand aside, he secured the assent of the other sultans in the Council of Rulers to the emerging political pact between Umno and PH to form a unity government.But the ramifications of the election result are likely to endure and present a challenge to Anwar’s premiership.
That is what GE15 put to the test. And the answers that it provided are as remarkable as they were, to many, unexpected.
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