Six states will elect new governments in polls expected by August which are becoming increasingly viewed as a referendum on the Anwar government. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KUALA LUMPUR – As the mercury rises in Malaysian politics, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has set about recruiting former foes as he seeks to widen alliances in the face of unrelenting pressure from the opposition to undermine his leadership.
His government is also set to bestow a senatorship on Datuk Seri Anifah Aman next week, despite Mr Anwar filing and losing at a cost of RM100,000 a defamation suit against the then foreign minister in 2015. Mr Anifah said in 2009 that Mr Anwar had tried to bribe MPs to support him to become prime minister the year before.
The polls threw up a hung Parliament and even though parties in government now make up a two-thirds supermajority in Parliament, PH has just 82 of the 222 seats in the lower house. Dr Faiz had been a key member of Mr Azmin’s inner circle and brains trust both while the latter was economic minister in the 2018 Mahathir administration, and after Mr Azmin defected to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia to become senior minister of international trade and investment under Muhyiddin Yassin’s premiership.
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