COMMENT One could hardly imagine witnessing the spectacle of the coming together of bitter political opponents and political enemies led by a discredited former prime minister attempting to remove a much more harmful incumbent, much less civil society actors supporting such a move.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, it would seem! Malaysia’s convoluted politics saw the launching of a ‘Citizens’ Declaration’ on March 4, 2016 urging the removal of the incumbent prime minister, Najib Abdul Razak.

The launch featured the 91-year-old former prime minister of Malaysia. The fact that (PKR de facto leader) Anwar Ibrahim, his former deputy in Umno and government, who was put away in jail for four years, endorsed the declaration made the event even more bizarre. Well, it happened.