COMMENT | Political pandemic pandemonium

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Here we stand, a constitutional crisis brewing, a political impasse. No Parliament thanks to Covid.

COMMENT | Forgive the heading. I couldn’t resist the alliteration. As is, I dropped “parliamentary”, concerned it would be overkill.If the Malaysian body politics was a patient, it is plugged into life-support drips and monitors in an ICU.

The Perikatan Nasional government has been labouring for a couple of years, its sickly pallor and half-hearted energy giving the lie to its insistence that it is hale and hearty, in the pink of health, gathering strength with every passing day. The events of the past week in Parliament and the palace and the streets of Kuala Lumpur filled with black-shirted youths, are just a visible eruption, pustular signs of a deep-rooted affliction.

 

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