Malaysia election: Four years after shock loss, Umno has been battered like never before

KUALA LUMPUR - Most Malaysians would never have imagined seeing Umno lose power in their lifetime.

So

when it happened in 2018

for the first time in Malaysia’s six-decade history, it reverberated around the world, with pundits congratulating the nation for being a bright spark of democracy at a time when dictators were on the rise elsewhere.