COMMENT | Anwar’s strange backlash



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“I don’t know. You have to ask him.”

– Anthony Loke on Anwar’s numbers game

COMMENTARY | Anwar Ibrahim’s meeting with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah tomorrow could be the culmination of his rise to the highest office in the country or it could be the final nail in the coffin for a political operative that started political upheaval that erupted. . the hegemonic control of Umno but not “cetuanism“.

Anwar did not inherit a ready-made opposition. He had to improvise one to wage war against the Umno hegemony, which at one point included the previous prime minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who was briefly an extremely influential operative in Pakatan Harapan and who still has his subservient devotees.

The fact is, Mahathir and his acolytes have abandoned Harapan and now hope to be king-makers or saboteurs for the benefit of people who want to maintain the hegemony they enjoyed or who never want to see Anwar become prime minister.

The fact that the old maverick considered and then reconsidered his decision …

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