Uneasy allies in awkward coalitions


Same script, swapped roles: A boisterous crowd showing Wee the love at Barisan Nasional’s mega ceramah in Pekan Nanas on the eve of the polling day.

ARTICLES for the Sunday Star must be submitted by about midday on Saturday. Nevertheless, I am perfectly comfortable writing this on the assumption that you awoke to news that MCA’s Wee Jeck Seng won comfortably in Tanjung Piai.

I suppose the more “popular” thing to aspire to would be to fire off the litany of “greatest hits” in terms of points made by columnists after a by–election result – waxing and waning about Pakatan Harapan, Barisan Nasional, or Muafakat Nasional, talking about how this should be a rude wakeup call to the ruling coalition, a sign that PH shouldn’t take the non–Malay vote for granted, and so on and so on.

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