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Malaysia's Opposition Coalition Must Radically Change to Survive

Bitter lessons from Melaka state elections

Nov 21, 2021
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By: Murray Hunter

Most of Malaysia’s political analysts foresaw that the opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition, which stumbled from power in February 2020 after a disastrous performance , had electoral appeal issues — but not the magnitude of the disaster that befell them in the weekend state elections in the historic town of Melaka.

The corollary is that …

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