Kingmakers and the poor Sabahan

HERE we are again – Malaysia will be holding its 15th general election on the 19 November 2022.

Again, this election will be a historic moment for our country. There are 1386 candidates enter the fray contesting in the upcoming election of which 946 candidates will be contesting in the parliament seats and this is the highest candidacy ever recorded in the history of Malaysia election. Half of the 21.17 million new voters consists of young voters between the age of 18 – 39 years old.

Also, this is the first time also where we see there is no clear strong coalition enters the election battlefield. The political fluidity requires political parties to work with each other and highly likely will depend on other political parties to form government.

Political fluidity or in another word absent of dominant party, this gives rise to small parties to become ‘kingmaker’. A lot of political analysts point out that Sabah and Sarawak will be the kingmakers to form the next government. Sabah has 25 parliamentary seats while Sarawak features 31 seats.