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- BN is effectively a minority government
- COMMENT It did not secure the mandate of the majority. It is a minority government insofar as public support is concerned.
- Malaysia's tryst with destiny on Sunday
- COMMENT With enough Malaysians voting wisely, we will, after 50 years of Umno dominance, have a new government.
- Blunder by ROS a GE game changer
- COMMENT ‘It gave an opportunity to the Pakatan parties to become closer, which their senior leaders immediately accepted’.
- Appointment of the PM after the polls
- UPDATED 11.55AM COMMENT The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is entitled to exercise his judgment quietly, calmly, freely, independently and impartially.
- Past midnight, NS will have a caretaker gov't
- COMMENT The essence of the concept means equalised positions of the ruling party and the opposition in the lead-up to the election.
- BN becomes caretaker gov't on March 8
COMMENT Najib Abdul Razak should announce on March 9 that, until GE13 is conducted, he will be the head of a caretaker gov't.
- Vast difference between citizenship in 1957 and 1990s
- COMMENT Immigrants in Sabah became citizens in 1990s in a secretive process, while non-Malays became citizens in 1957 openly.
- Speaker can recall assembly, sultan's consent not needed
- Perak speaker V Sivakumar is empowered to reconvene the state assembly, argued prominent constitutional lawyer Tommy Thomas.
- The trial that broke the judiciary's back
- analysis Will our ailing judiciary be able to withstand another shambolic, highly controversial trial involving Anwar Ibrahim?
- Crossing the rubicon, Part 2
- The recently concluded general election witnessed the emergence of two new powerful forces.
- Crossing the rubicon, Part 1
- The general election has banished the ghosts of May 13 from the national consciousness, but Barisan Nasional has been left to confront spectres of its own making.
- Judicial credibility in the public eye
- If the Malaysian courts are to regain credibility, they must maintain a standard of consistent, fair and independent decisions over a decent period of time.
- The world after 9/11 and Iraq
- In conjunction of the first-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, many are looking back at the reasons for the military offensive and pondering if things could not have been better handled then and now.