KUALA LUMPUR - The shadow of Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration’s collapse in 2020 hangs over newly installed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as he contends with the same race-based opposition narrative former premier Mahathir Mohamad struggled with in 2018.
Datuk Seri Anwar now leads a government that represents a minority of votes of the country’s Malay-Muslim majority, and faces a largely Malay-Muslim opposition that has trumped up his PH coalition’s so-called anti-Islam agenda in an attempt to stir popular dissent.
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