COMMENT | Who would partner Umno to form next govt?

“If we make an assumption too early, we do not know what will happen in the election later.”

- Caretaker prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob

COMMENT | Who would cooperate with Umno to form the next government? The usual suspects, of course, that is if they muster the electoral power to form another flimflam coalition.

All will be forgotten in a haze of attempting to present Malay religious and racial unity.

But of course, if the usual suspects are not available, then it would really get interesting.

Mariam Mokhtar in a recent piece asked “Will the Malays unite and change the government?”

Well, it seems to me and maybe to you too, that the Malays are open to a change of government.

What they have shown very little interest in is changing the system even when they voted for Pakatan Harapan.

The Malay establishment always feared this election.

The election, where a fractured Malay voting polity would be so divided that non-Malay electoral power would be needed to form the government – in the worst-case scenario - or that an unstable Malay coalition would disrupt the gravy train, which jeopardises the feudalistic foundation of political power in this country.

This, of course, has...