August 03, 2021
Riot police on standby as Malaysian politicians protest on Aug 2, 2021.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin ’s swift countermoves, after recently coming under pressure on multiple fronts , suggest he plans to hunker down to stay in power rather than step aside to clear up the country’s pandemic-time political morass.
But while he has shown an uncanny ability to dodge the opposition’s repeated efforts to unseat him, keen watchers of Malaysian politics suggest the 74-year-old’s brewing battle against the country’s king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, could prove his undoing.
In unprecedented fashion, the constitutional monarch last week publicly chastised the Perikatan Nasional government over what he said was a deliberate attempt to mislead parliament over the status of emergency powers.
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