Muhyiddin Yassin has been working overtime to hang on to his fragile majority. FMTNews MuhyiddinYassin PerikatanNasional Covid19
Is the pandemic a boon to autocracy? In Malaysia, efforts to constrain the coronavirus have chipped away at the very democratic principles that for decades made the country a natural US ally and bastion of stability in a volatile region.
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in on March 1 and ran straight into the crisis of a generation. Malaysia was in the early days of grappling with rising coronavirus infections, and trading partners were beginning to close their borders. Weeks later, the prime minister instituted a nationwide lockdown, which has been extended a couple of times and only started lifting gradually in recent weeks.
In the meantime, Muhyiddin has been working overtime to hang on to his fragile majority. Based on seating arrangements for the king’s speech last month, his bloc commands 113 seats, the barest of majorities in the 222-seat house. The Cabinet he assembled has been showering members with government jobs and posts at state-linked companies. Perhaps no one has benefited more than Muhyiddin’s coalition partners in Umno, despite the stain of its ties to Najib.
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