Despite anti-hopping law, loopholes in enforcement raises questions on politicians’ loyalty to their own party.
NO sooner after social media celebrated the best moments of 2023 and prayed for stability in 2024, the “Dubai Move” emerged: another alleged power grab in Malaysian politics supposedly brewing. (In Western democracies, commentators tend to suffix ‘-gate’ to everything to denote a scandal, after the Watergate scandal; in Malaysia, we have become equally good at appending any geographical location with ‘Move’ to signify an intended change of government through means other than general elections.)
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