KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will go to the polls when the coronavirus pandemic is over, the prime minister said on Saturday, two days after winning lawmakers’ backing for his government’s 2021 budget.

Muhyiddin Yassin took power in March after pulling his party from Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling coalition to ally with the scandal-tainted United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and others.

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