RSIS Asst Prof Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman and senior analyst Prashant Waikar, wrote that the Tanjung Piai by-election in Malaysia on 16 November 2019 has been described by some commentators as the beginning of the end for the current Pakatan Harapan (PH) government, while others have argued that the result is a warning of dissatisfaction with PH’s performance.

…Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor with Edmund Terence Gomez of Malaysia’s 14th General Election and UMNO’s Fall: Intra-Elite Feuding in the Pursuit of Power (Routledge, 2019).  

Prashant Waikar is a Senior Analyst with the Malaysia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU.