The Great Reset - rebooting Malaysian politics

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The political crisis caused by the Sheraton Move coup should be seen as part and parcel of a very painful and long democratisation process. The coup was, in fact, the form that the expected push back by conservative forces took, against the people’s democratic uprising that happened at the ballot box on May 9, 2018. Malaysia had been a one-party state where people could not imagine change and even feared it — up until the 2008 election that saw BN losing its two-thirds majority for the first time and falling in the most industrialised states, such as Selangor and Penang. The 14th general election witnessed Malaysians of all ethnic and religious backgrounds coming together in a huge turnout on election day to rise against the one-party state that attempted to win by setting a Wednesday polling day (to seemingly reduce turnout), changing election boundaries (allegedly to favour th…