Insight - Towards a new political direction


Challenges ahead: Motorists wait in front of the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The economy contracted by 5.6% in 2020 and is now envisaged to grow between 3% and 4% this year, much lower than the previous projection of 6%–7.5%. — AP

THE year 2020 has never been like any other in recent history. Doomsday believers could not have predicted about the Covid-19 pandemic and how it would have severely inflicted the lives, livelihood and business of people across the globe including Malaysia.

Resulting from the unprecedented measures (lockdowns and movement control measures), the pandemic has created a layer of misery with people in hunger and anger, exposed inequalities, tragedy of individual loss and death, national disruption and political instability in Malaysia.

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