Look who’s counting


Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (right) shake hands with Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad. - Filepic

Since the formation of Malaysia, the Prime Minister has come from the party with the most MPs. GE14 broke this convention, and now there’s a numbers scrum.

Politics is a numbers game.

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