NSTopinion: MuhyiddinYassin should continue with the good work the PH government had embarked on, particularly institutional reforms for a vibrant democracy and full commitment to the rule of law.
He faces an immediate challenge based on the circumstances of his appointment. Sooner or later, he has to demonstrate that he has majority support in Parliament to continue as prime minister.
I see this new government as the outcome of a kind of suspended 1969-type Malay reaction to Umno’s defeat in May 2018, thankfully, without the violence of racial riots that followed the gains of non-Malay parties in the election in May too that year. There is a fear that the new government will abandon reform and will discontinue court action against corrupt politicians.
Will the coalition cobbled together by Muhyiddin do any better? There are many chieftains in it when there can only be one tiger on the mountain.As we have just seen, Malays, more than contemporary Japanese, are good at killing each other in politics, and then blame everybody else for it. China now accounts for 40 per cent of growth of the global economy. Perforce all other economies in the world will be hit, including Malaysia where 14.2 per cent of exports go to China and where China’s share of tourism receipts is 19 per cent.
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