Welcome to 2023. Politically, it might be the most heated year yet for Malaysia.

The party that dominated Malaysian politics for decades lost badly in the last elections. Can it return to dominance? If so, how?

Various hurdles loom for the Prime Minister but it looks like he can take them all in his stride.

THE rise of the Green Wave continued in the Padang Serai election.

“WILL Anwar be Prime Minister?” was the most asked question when I was in Bangkok last week. At that time, Pakatan Harapan chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Perikatan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin were vying to be Malaysia’s 10th prime minister.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, they say, and none are stranger than those in our new unity government.

MALAYSIANS have decided. Yesterday, we voted for our choice of party or candidate – or both.

WOULD you vote for a coalition/party or the candidate? Or do both factor in?

ON nomination day yesterday, Sabah fulfilled its reputation for being the Wild Wild East of Malaysian politics.

DURING a recent “political tourism” road trip from Kuala Lumpur to Bera, Pahang, I noticed a difference in the “noise” coming from Chinese voters compared with what I heard leading up to the 14th General Election (GE14) in 2018.

The Opposition vote is going to be badly split in Sabah come Nov 19.

“FOR us, banjir (flood) is normal. Flood or no flood, we will go out to vote,” a 40something man told me when I chatted with him at a nasi lemak stall in Jerantut town in Pahang.