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14 Jan 2021, 08:00 am

Newsmakers 2020: Power shifts from Pakatan Harapan to Perikatan NasionalIN national politics, 2020 was as dramatic as it could get. For the first time in Malaysian history, a change of government took place without a general election. The 22-month-old Pakatan Harapan (PH) government fell in February following a political realignment, dubbed the Sheraton Mov...

By By Rash Behari Bhattacharjee and Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

14 Jan 2021, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

23 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: States may not follow snap election cueIN the event parliament is dissolved to pave the way for a snap election, at least one state assembly will not follow suit. Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Aminuddin Harun was quoted as saying that there is no necessity for the dissolution of the state assembly as the mandate g...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

23 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

23 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: Pakatan Harapan allies step outside the fold PAKATAN Harapan Plus is no more. That’s the reality. What we have now are two different entities. A quick recap. The Pakatan Harapan presidential council’s statement issued recently to announce that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is its candidate for prime minister did not make any ...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

23 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

16 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: Questions about a prime minister from Sabah ISN’T it about time Malaysia had a prime minister from Sabah or Sarawak, or Borneo as it is still referred to by some? After all, it has been 63 years since the country achieved independence and 57 years since Malaysia was born. All this while, we have had prime ministers from the peninsula. Ther...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

16 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

16 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: Time to call a spade a spadeI asked a well-known leader of a Pakatan Harapan (PH) component party when its presidential council would meet to decide, once and for all, their prime ministerial candidate should they return to federal power — be it Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal or even Tun Dr Mahathir Moham...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

16 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Highlight

12 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Testing times in ParliamentSome people believe Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof earned the wrath of Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin when the former accepted to put ex-premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s motion of no confidence — against Muhyiddin — in the original agenda of the May 18 parliamentary sitting.

By Mohsin Abdullah / theedgemarkets.com

12 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

09 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: Can Mahathir reshape the political landscape yet again? TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s recent declaration that he will find “other ways” to become prime minister has observers wondering if he will be able to change the country’s political landscape again. For the record, Mahathir made that statement after PKR rejected him as Pakatan Harapan’s pri...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

09 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

09 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: The menteri besar and his new carDESPITE his justifications, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu continues to draw flak for buying himself a spanking new official car, or as he puts it, for the state government to get it for him. The car is a Lexus ES Sedan. The 2.5 litre car is made in Japan and its reta...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

09 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

02 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: No end game in sight despite PKR’s decisionIS PKR, or Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in particular, being difficult with regard to Pakatan Harapan (PH) Plus’ candidate for prime minister? In a way, yes. But considering the bitter experience Anwar and PKR have had with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, including the leadership transition plan a...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

02 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Edge Weekly

02 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

Politics and Policy: Too many political issues for PN to call for a snap election IT has been quite some time now since we first read reports of Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin contemplating calling for a snap election. This was before the current mess opposition Pakatan Harapan Plus (PH Plus) is facing with regard to its choice of prime ministerial candidate (see abov...

By Mohsin Abdullah / The Edge Malaysia

02 Jul 2020, 08:00 am

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