Sebastian Loh

Imagine if the year were 2019 and the prime minister of Malaysia were PKR’s Azmin Ali, Pakatan having won a historic election the year before. Hundreds of thousands of Umno supporters are camped out on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, demanding his resignation. The capital is paralysed and so is the larger economy.

The newly-amended Sedition Act is not perfect, but it’s surprisingly good. That fact has been lost amid the melodramatic and embarrassingly hyperbolic accusations levelled at the Najib Abdul Razak government. One commentator (and I’m looking at you, Zaid Ibrahim) even compared the government to Stalinist Russia. I wonder if Zaid could direct me to the gulag closest to Kuala Lumpur. The one in his head doesn’t count.

Malaysiakini launches a Facebook poll to gauge public sentiments on the government proposed royal commission to probe the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

A poll by Malaysiakini indicates that the Manek Urai by-election results reflects the increasing disappointment people are having with the disunity in the Pakatan coalition.