Save ringgit or save Reformasi? PM Anwar could attempt both

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s footing has never been more secure as he prepares to table Malaysia’s Budget 2025 on Oct 18 after an initial 18 months of endless doubt over whether his government of former foes would last.

Since coming to power in November 2022 after Malaysia’s first ever hung Parliament, Datuk Seri Anwar has had to perform the most delicate of juggling acts –

shoring up ebbing support from the crucial Malay majority,

fending off moves by a nationalist Islamic opposition attempting to make further inroads, while working to keep his hodgepodge ruling alliance together as critics mocked the

lack of reforms

that he had promised during two decades in the opposition.