A New Dawn in Malaysia

The Straits Times

12 May 2018

Joseph Chinyong Liow, dean and professor of comparative and international politics at RSIS, NTU, wrote in his commentary that Mahathir and Pakatan Harapan have achieved a stunning election victory. Now they must deal with major challenges, not least how to make their unlikely coalition work effectively. GE14 was truly an epic tale for the ages. In defiance of history and the powers of incumbency, the Reformasi movement birthed in the wake of the Asian financial crisis 20 years ago appears to have finally come of age, midwifed by the man it was conceived to oppose in the first place.

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