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All the pieces matter

Navigating amoeba politics

By Nathaniel Tan
Simple times: A large crowd of women elbowing their way to vote at a polling station in Mersing, Johor, during the first General Election in Malaya in 1955. There were not many choices in the country's first national polls but there was optimism. — National Archives

IN the beginning, there was Umno (est 1946).

In 1951, PAS splintered off from Umno.

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