EI SUN OH

LET’S talk about politics closer to home. Well, not exactly home, but at least neighborly so. Which brings us to my home state of Sabah just across the Sulu Sea. Malaysia’s current federal government as well as the Sabah state government are entering the fourth year of their five-year term, and in the British Westminster parliamentary system (with the party commanding the majority in the legislature forming a government) inherited there, the incumbent federal or state government may call for a snap election anytime, instead of having fixed dates for elections like in the Philippines. All sorts of election speculations are thus flying in Malaysia, and there is even talk of Sabah holding its state election ahead of the much awaited federal one.

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