What started as an internal dispute last Friday erupted into a full-blown political circus for Malaysia. Opinion|amerhadiazmi
In Malaysia, a failed coup attempt by the opposition and ambitious members of the ruling establishment saw the consolidation of power in the hands of a man famous for proclaiming that he is ‘not a dictator’: 95-year old Mahathir Mohamad.
Things miraculously changed however when Mahathir came back from retirement and fought together with Anwar’s party , and unseated the incumbent Barisan Nasional coalition led by Najib Razak, who brought infamy to the country in the shape of the massive 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal.
In an ensuing shouting match, Mahathir’s entourage from his Bersatu party in the PH coalition threatened to break ranks unless the other three parties stopped putting their chairman on the spot, asking him to come up with a date. It was met with a challenge by seasoned veterans from the other parties — many of whom spent all but the last two years in the opposition.
Within the next few hours, polarising figures from the opposition and from the incumbent were spotted entering a ballroom at a hotel just a kilometre away from Bersatu’s headquarters in Petaling Jaya, west of central Kuala Lumpur including infamous figures now facing dozens of corruption charges after the fall of Barisan Nasional.
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