Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has little time to prove he can hold things together before the 2023 referendum on his leadershipIt’s a tough time to be a political moderate. Ask Anwar Ibrahim,Anwar was deputy to former prime minister Mahathir Mohammad, but was sacked in 1998 and then jailed for 11 years on charges that were later overturned.
The sidelining of Mahathir, this time heading a new Malay-based party, has not ended the biggest challenge faced by Anwar, a leader who has long taken a more inclusive stance in the ethnically diverse country. The 97-year-old Mahathir’s star had faded long before the election and the poll just confirmed it.
The first big change happened in 2018 when the Barisan Nasional coalition lost power under leader and then prime minister Najib Razak. The coalition had ruled the country for six decades from independence, and was dominated by the in relation to the 1MDB development fund he set up after becoming prime minister in 2009, and from which investigators alleged at least $4.5bn was stolen.
Now, in a cobbled-together coalition that includes a much-reduced Umno with his own People’s Justice Party, Anwar’s room to move is limited. Despite being committed to Malaysia’s diverse society, in which ethnic Chinese make up about 20% and Indians more than 6% of the population, he will have to focus on the task of holding government together in the short term.
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