Like drowning duckweeds


Drying up: As voters lost confidence in Pakatan, the people’s support for Barisan Nasional in the recent Tanjung Piai by-election shot up.

Pakatan Harapan’s loss in the Tanjung Piai by-election showed that Malaysians’ voter literacy has improved, but there is still a lot of intrigue left in the country’s political drama to befuddle us.

POLITICAL analyst Professor Shamsul Amri Baharuddin likens Pakatan Harapan to duckweeds. (They are small aquatic plants that float free on still water.)

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