COMMENT | It is unlikely that efforts towards the institutional reform measures Harapan had begun will be followed through.
| The Pakatan Harapan coalition will go down in history as the shortest-lived government in the country. Since its "stunning" electoral victory in May 2018, in which the single-party dominant regime of BN was defeated for the first time at the federal government, the coalition had attempted to tackle difficult institutional reforms and reframe race-based politics despite its slowing popularity.
This article, therefore, explores the immediate consequences of the new government under Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s leadership. Will Malaysia see a return of Barisan Nasional politics and public policies?This is likely to be the case, given that the new government consists of parties that had formed the previously defeated BN.
The government may be forced to look into restoring the unpopular Goods and Services Tax to plug the country’s fiscal gap, which was abolished by Harapan, then arguing that the GST was the cause of people’s rising cost of living.Second, it is likely that PN will further deepen existing institutional race-based policy. Post-1969 racial riots, race-based affirmative action’s primary objective is to alleviate Malay poverty with the hope of creating more equal outcomes.
PAS had also been the champion of implementing the hudud law within Kelantan, then the only state it controlled, and it remains to be seen if this proposal will be supported by its new coalition partners. Criminal law is a federal, not state matter, so PAS never really had the mandate to push for this at the federal level – until now.Third and finally, it is unlikely that efforts towards the institutional reform measures Harapan had begun will be followed through.
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