An overturning of popular will


The dizzying chain of political developments have raised a number of monumental constitutional issues.

THE unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government less than two years after a euphoric victory in May 2018 is a sad illustration of the dark underbelly of parliamentary democracy.

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