COMMENT Steadily and surely, the options have whittled down to naught for the Najib Razak administration.

Five years have lapsed since the last general election and almost four full years have passed on Najib’s prime ministerial watch alone.

But Najib had not seen it fit, before it is constitutionally mandated, to call for polls.      

Newly installed Malaysian prime ministers have not waited this long to seek a national mandate...