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...breath. Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has already said he will give up power to take responsibility for the ruling coalition's humiliating performance in polls earlier this year. But Abdullah hasn't specified exactly when he might hand over the reins to his deputy, Najib Razak, even though the government's popularity figures are languishing at a record low. Meanwhile, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whose People's Alliance did surprisingly well in the March elections, boasts that he has lured enough defectors from the governing alliance to form a new government. But despite promising to unveil...
...model Muslim-majority democracy. Will Anwar - a man who once served as deputy prime minister until he had a political falling-out with his mentor and spent six years in jail - be able to bring down a ruling coalition that has governed Malaysia since independence? Or will Najib - the current deputy premier whose reputation has been tainted by the murder trial of his former advisor - take the helm and sustain the National Front's hold on power? Already, Anwar's power play has been dismissed as a mere rhetorical flourish by the ruling coalition. Why else, they...
...coalition member, even called for a parliamentary vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister. Abdullah, who is being blamed for the governing alliance's electoral drubbing, is under so much pressure to resign that he promised last month to eventually hand over the reins to Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak...
...Anwar scandal could divert attention from the trial of Najib's ex-aide, at the same time weakening the campaign against Abdullah. Anwar recently said the opposition needs only 28 members of parliament to defect from the ruling coalition in order for the opposition to take power. He has been aggressively courting crossovers among political representatives from the Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, which are among Malaysia's poorest despite plentiful natural resources...
...Razak is also under a cloud from another Malaysian sex scandal involving members of the political élite. In 2006, Abdul Razak Baginda, a political think-tank head and former adviser to Najib, was charged with abetting the murder of his Mongolian ex-lover. The aide is now standing trial, along with two government security agents who are accused of having killed the woman and blowing up her body with military-grade explosives in a jungle clearing near Kuala Lumpur. Najib has denied any knowledge of or involvement in the murder...