MP SPEAKS | Former British prime minister Harold Wilson is attributed as saying that a week is too long in politics. This means a month feels like an eternity. This was probably how keen observers of Malaysian politics felt throughout July 2025.

The retirement of chief justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat without the customary six-month extension caused some quarters to liken it to a judicial crisis, similar to that of the 1988 crisis.

On July 7, former PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli led eight out of 31 PKR MPs to call for the formation of a royal commission of inquiry into the judiciary.

This intervention from Rafizi’s group gave the impression that all was not well within PKR and Pakatan Harapan, and by extension, the Anwar-led federal government.

Some of them had the unfounded fear that...