This alert service contains articles focusing on the Malaysian state elections which were held on 12 Aug. The regular Daily News Alert will be released after 4pm today.
This special issue includes an article with a citation attributed to Ong Kian Ming, Visiting Senior Fellow.
1. Ex-minister Reezal Merican to be Penang deputy chief minister?
Predeep Nambiar
Free Malaysia Today, 15 August 2023
2. Why we should be concerned over the rise of political Islam
Adzhar Ibrahim
Free Malaysia Today, 15 August 2023
3. PH-BN, at the top in Putrajaya but irrelevant in Terengganu as polls dust settles
Malaysia Now, 15 August 2023
4. For Anwar, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
P Gunasegaram
Malaysiakini, 15 August 2023
5. COMMENT | What did your third-party vote accomplish?
Darren Ong Chung Lee
Malaysiakini, 15 August 2023
6. ‘Third force’ parties lack strategy, say pundits
Ravin Palanisamy
Malaysian Insight, 15 August 2023
7. Why Umno did well in Negri
Sarban Singh
Star, 15 August 2023
8. Despite wipeout, Terengganu Umno members keep the faith
Sheridan Mahavera & Junaid Ibrahim
Star, 15 August 2023
9. ‘It was a strategy gone wrong for Umno in Kelantan’
Arfa Yunus
Star, 15 August 2023
10. Zahid aware of calls to quit
Mazwin Nik Anis
Star, 15 August 2023
11. Is this the end of the road for Umno?
James Chin
Straits Times, 15 August 2023
12. 宗教民粹与公民教育的失败 [Religious populism and the failure of civic education]
温思拯
星洲网, 15 August 2023
13. State polls highlight Anwar government weakness
Nile Bowie
Asia Times, 14 August 2023
14. Analysts: Anwar must focus on economy after Malaysian opposition’s success at polls
Iman Muttaqin Yusof
Benar News, 14 August 2023
15. Research houses positive on economic outlook after state elections
Bernama, 14 August 2023
16. PN’s Political Ideology, Trend Will Not Benefit The People – Khalid
Bernama, 14 August 2023
17. DAP to strengthen youth wing, brushes off Muda merger talk
Tsubasa Nair
Free Malaysia Today, 14 August 2023
18. BN to have one seat in Penang govt, says DAP
Tsubasa Nair
Free Malaysia Today, 14 August 2023
19. Religious-technocrat duo expected to lead Kelantan
Free Malaysia Today, 14 August 2023
20. Chase reforms instead of conservative Malay votes, govt urged
Dineskumar Ragu
Free Malaysia Today, 14 August 2023
21. Zafrul: If this isn’t a final warning for Umno, I don’t know what is
Malaysia Now, 14 August 2023
22. A rebuttal to Liew Chin Tong on state elections
Kassim Abdul Samad
Malaysia Now, 14 August 2023
23. In a first, non-Malay reps dominate Selangor ruling bloc
Malaysia Now, 14 August 2023
24. COMMENT | Identity politics is not reducible to materialism
P Ramasamy
Malaysiakini, 14 August 2023
25. What the unity govt can learn from the proto-green wave
Rayner Sylvester Yeo
Malaysian Insight, 14 August 2023
26. 国盟的高峰和局限 [PN’s triumphs and limitations]
行动党全国选举备战委员会主席刘镇东
Malaysian Insight, 14 August 2023
27. PH should shoulder some blame for BN’s dismal outing – Analyst
Mohamed Basyir
New Straits Times, 14 August 2023
28. Sanusi: Racial polarisation also exists in seats won by PH [NSTTV]
Adie Zulkifli
New Straits Times, 14 August 2023
29. Time for a peace accord, Bersih tells unity govt and Opposition
Fazleena Aziz
Star, 14 August 2023
30. Unity government still united post elections, says Loke
Ragananthini Vethasalam
Star, 14 August 2023
31. Malaysian state polls: Winners, losers and those who must do better
Shannon Teoh
Straits Times, 14 August 2023
32. The six state elections: ‘No change’, but… — Clive Kessler
Clive Kessler
Malay Mail Online, 13 August 2023
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