In Malaysia, Incumbency Isn't All It Used to Be

They’ll have to choose between three party coalitions, each headed by current or former warlords from the UMNO party that ruled Malaysia as the head of the Barisan Nasional coalition from independence in 1957 until the watershed elections of 2018. That was when the opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition headed by former UMNO strongman Mahathir Mohamad knocked the disgraced Najib Razak and Barisan Nasional out of office.

 

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