Ismail Sabri Yaakob

First Transition and Collapse · Chronicle · 3 min read

Why Did Malaysia Have Three Prime Ministers in Three Years?

A Weak Prime Minister, A Bipartisan Memorandum, and the Anti-Hopping Law Accidentally Spawned by the Sheraton Move

After Muhyiddin lost his majority, Ismail Sabri became the third Prime Minister in 39 months. To stabilize the government, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Transformation and Political Stability with Pakatan Harapan; bipartisan cooperation pushed parliamentary reform and the anti-hopping constitutional amendment, showing that a weak government does not necessarily only bring paralysis.

Unity Government and Reform · Treatise · 5 min read

What Is Malaysia Unity Government?

How Harapan, BN, and Sarawak and Sabah Partners Turned a Hung Parliament into a Government

The 2022 general election did not give any coalition a simple majority. Anwar ultimately led a Unity Government composed of Pakatan Harapan, Barisan Nasional, GPS, GRS, and others; this solved the cabinet formation arithmetic, but also forced the reform camp to explain: by cooperating with the long-criticized UMNO, how principles would not be swallowed by the deal.