As election war drums beat, is Malaysia’s ruling coalition done for?

Chances of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim winning a fresh mandate look increasingly fraught, experts say, as the unravelling of his coalition government picked up pace with threats of full-scale war between allies and the desertion by former stalwarts to another party over the weekend. Anwar has presided over a period of relative political stability since he was appointed prime minister in November 2022 by then-king Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah, on condition that he include both allies and rivals in ...

By Joseph Sipalan,Iman Muttaqin Yusof