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Unity Government and Reform · Treatise · 5 min read

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.

Unity Government and Reform · Life · 4 min read

Who Is Muhyiddin Yassin? From UMNO Deputy to Pandemic Prime Minister after Sheraton

Johor Menteri Besar, deputy prime minister, Bersatu leader, eighth prime minister, and how a thin-majority government ruled during COVID-19

Muhyiddin rose for decades inside UMNO, serving as Johor Menteri Besar and deputy prime minister, before breaking with Najib over 1MDB and helping form Bersatu. After the Sheraton Move in 2020, he became prime minister, but had to govern through a pandemic, a thin majority, and an emergency controversy; to understand him is to understand how the old system recombined after the 2018 turnover.