Status quo at the Aug 12 state elections poses no danger to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the parliamentary level, but it will feed tensions in the federal-state relationship, says CNA’s Leslie Lopez.
will likely remain under the opposition, or more specifically, the right-wing Parti Islam Se-Malaysia .. But the status quo at the state level poses no danger to Mr Anwar at the federal level, with his unity government enjoying a two-thirds majority in parliament.Over the last eight months since Mr Anwar came to power, ties between his unity government and the opposition-led states have been hostile, with PAS accusing Putrajaya of holding back on federal funding for economic development.
During Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s first stint as prime minister heading the Barisan Nasional government, for 22 years beginning in 1981, the states of Kelantan and Terengganu were denied royalty payment from oil and gas extracted from the states by national oil corporation Petronas. But things were shaken up after the 2018 general election when BN was ousted from power after ruling for six decades, starting a chain of events that pushed Malaysia into a prolonged period of political uncertainty. Power changed hands three times before the 2022 general election.
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