by Sophie Lemière | May 21, 2024 | Blog, Featured
Photo: Rohd Rasfan/ Getty Image Anwar Ibrahim’s government feels emboldened by its win in the Kuala Kubu Baharu byelection on May 11. Pakatan Harapan (PH), the leading coalition in the government, and Perikatan Nasional (PN), the opposition coalition, saw only... by Sophie Lemière | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Opinion Pieces
Photo: Rohd Rasfan/ Getty Image On December 12, just over a year into his government, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim reshuffled his cabinet, switching portfolios, creating new positions and ministries, and bringing in familiar faces from the 2018 Pakatan Harapan (PH)... by Sophie Lemière | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Opinion Pieces
Photo: Rohd Rasfan/ Getty Image With six state assemblies dissolved in advance of elections to be held within the next couple of months, the ruling and opposition coalitions are in order of battle. The Negeri Sembilan assembly was dissolved on July 1, the Kedah,... by Sophie Lemière | May 31, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Opinion Pieces
Photo: Rohd Rasfan/ Getty Image The historic alliance between Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional (BN) to form government last November has left many voters in both coalitions confused. With no less than six state elections to be held by July (in Kedah,... by Sophie Lemière | Apr 24, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Opinion Pieces
Photo: Rohd Rasfan/ Getty Image Now that the first 100 days of Anwar Ibrahim’s government are over, the democratic path that the iconic leader of the Reformasi movement had promised to set the country on remains extremely sinuous. Stuck between his allies in the...