Essay: The Two-Sided Crisis- UMNO’s Opportunism and Anwar’s Self-Inflicted Wounds

Mahi Ramakrishnan writes on the current political scenario in Malaysia and the concerns it raises.

Malaysia’s political landscape has never been short of drama, but the current events unfolding in Negeri Sembilan have sharpened a question that has been gathering urgency for months: Is the Pakatan Harapan (PH) unity government sleepwalking toward its own destruction?

The easy answer is to point fingers at UMNO: a party whose reliability as a coalition partner has always been somewhere between questionable and laughable. But the harder, more honest answer requires us to also examine the man at the centre of it all: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose missteps have created the very vacuum that UMNO and its newfound friends in Perikatan Nasional are now rushing to fill.