Perikatan Nasional’s move to team up with 12 other parties has reignited debate over whether such alliances can deliver meaningful reform, or, in the words of Rafizi Ramli, who drew from experience, end up becoming a “business as usual” government.

Rafizi also pointed out that the outcome of the next general election also depended on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his Madani administration.

“If he (Anwar) fails to...