No more room for reconciliation

Pakatan Harapan leaders announce the formation of the new Opposition coalition in September last year.

I was still in university and very much disinterested in national politics when the Opposition parties banded together to form Pakatan Rakyat back in 2008.

The 12th General Election had just ended and the trio of PKR, DAP, and PAS pulled off a shocking feat of denying Barisan Nasional a two-thirds majority in Parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years.