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PKR’s rancorous election threatens to subvert Malaysia itself
A pitched battle for PKR’s No. 2 position between PM Anwar’s protege and his daughter risks undercutting the party’s status as a moderating force.
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What, from the outside, can only be described as signs of deep polarisation within PKR, sends the wrong message at exactly the wrong time, says the writer.
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We are familiar with high-stakes national elections: clashes between competing world views on governance. Even within parties, we occasionally witness fierce battles for leadership – particularly after crushing defeats, as recently demonstrated by Britain’s Conservatives.
But a do-or-die contest – not for leadership, but deputy leadership of a party that is neither in crisis nor performing poorly in government – between two candidates who are not ideological opposites but rather political mirror images?
