COMMENT | A senior political observer I chanced upon in a neighbourhood café asked the question Pakatan Harapan leaders have been very carefully not asking themselves since Saturday night.

“Can this unity government, propped up by BN and Harapan cooperating at the federal level, actually keep limping along after this?”

Reminiscing after the conversation, I thought it was bold of anyone to still call it a "unity" government, especially with Umno going solo again in Negeri Sembilan.

We all understand that the BN/Harapan agreement is only at a federal level, and yet, there is still this unsettling feeling because an arrangement that made sense out of post-2022 desperation starts to look a bit silly when one partner is this dominant, and the other is basically down to fumes.

Johor made sure everybody...