Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak may have given a possible indicator of when the next general election will be held, after announcing the date for the tabling of Budget 2018 in Parliament.

According to a Bernama report on Najib's keynote address at the Budget 2018 Consultative Council Meeting in Putrajaya, the fiscal plan is expected to be tabled in Parliament on Oct 27.

This would be Najib's last budget before the current Parliament is automatically dissolved, on June 24 next year.

Even if Najib were to call for the election before that, announcing a fiscal plan would seem to indicate that he would at least do so after the budget is passed in the lower and upper houses of Parliament...