In Kuala Lumpur white flags hang from windows—cries of help from households for whom the pandemic has brought economic distress and hunger
Among proudly middle-class Malaysians, the pandemic has crystallised how their country too often benefits mainly the well-connected. Certain factory-owners have been allowed to continue operating even during lockdowns . Politicians flout health rules that carry swingeing penalties for other infringers.
It was not supposed to be this way. When the United Malays National Organisation , which had ruled since independence, was at last dislodged by an opposition coalition in 2018, Malaysians expected politics to change. But the new government, itself led by defectors from, proved unwieldy and fissiparous. The current prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, brought it down last year by re-defecting.
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