The “October surprise” in Malaysia has now come to the point where, either the Muhyiddin government will collapse first, or UMNO would break up before a Najib-Zahid coup against Muhyiddin is launched. The weeks from now until Parliament votes on Budget 2021 will see the…
Should Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s short stint as Prime Minister come to an end soon, who is to be blamed? Half of the fault lies with Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin while the other is squarely on Muhyiddin himself for trusting Hamzah as his chief political…
I am currently in Sandakan to campaign for Warisan Plus. Along the main thoroughfares of Sandakan, posters adorned with the mugshot of Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin are ubiquitously displayed, as though he is the one contesting in the 26th September Sabah State elections. …
Press statement by Senator Liew Chin Tong, on Wednesday 16th September 2020 in Sandakan, Sabah. Hishamuddin should resign for electioneering foreign affairs On 7th September 2020, Senator Adrian Lasimbang (DAP) rose in the Dewan Negara to propose a motion regarding Philippine’s recent claims over Sabah,…
In the spirit of Merdeka, we need to draw from history and geography to re-imagine Malaysia. Our discourse has often been too insular and inward-looking. In fact, our history and geography tell us that the Malacca Sultanate was a great metropolitan city linked to the…
I would like to thank every one of you for watching and joining the launch of “The Great Reset – 100 days of Triple Crisis”. I am particularly grateful to my friends Dato’ Ooi Kee Beng, Wan Hamidi Hamid and Frederik Paulus for speaking at…
Political parties in Malaysia and the voting public would be better off if our institutions, narratives and norms can be adapted to suit Malaysia’s new normal of having coalition governments formed by parties of similar strength. Appreciating the prospect of not having a single dominant…
Post-Sheraton Coup, the immediate need for UMNO, PAS and Bersatu to have more seats to distribute among themselves will alter the political landscape in massive ways. This piece predicts that the three parties will create “the pool” of 135 of the 165 Peninsula seats, taking…
For Malaysia to move forward, we need to have a new framing for our political and economic discourses. Malaysia’s race/communal politics traces its roots to the Japanese occupation and the immediate aftermath in 1945. That was 75 years ago. The UMNO-dominant polity began in the…
The political crisis caused by the Sheraton coup should be seen as part and parcel of a very painful and long democratisation process. The coup was in fact the form that the expected push back by conservative forces took, against the people’s democratic uprising that…