“Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

- WB Yeats

COMMENT | Today, PAS released a statement saying that Umno’s statement and tacit approval for its Members of Parliament who have supposedly chosen to shift their support from Muhyiddin Yassin to Anwar Ibrahim is in effect a breach of the Muafakat Nasional Charter.

What has long been crumbling and on the verge of collapse may now finally be totally coming apart at the seams.

I am not talking about Muafakat Nasional. I am talking about Malaysia’s outdated political modalities as a whole.

We have been seeing, for many years now, this unending trend of aligning, un-aligning, realigning and all the detrimental political instability that has come with it. There was a joke on Twitter about making a new app that can tell you (in realtime!) who the prime minister of Malaysia is right now.

It’s hard to mark the most significant start to the chaos.

Some may say it was two days ago, when Anwar made his latest announcement.

Some may say it was the Sheraton Move; or how Dr Mahathir Mohamad never truly believed in the Pakatan Harapan coalition. Some may trace it back to how the Kajang Move was the first sign that a stable two-party system was not going to happen for Malaysia. Some may go as far back as the Reformasi of 1998...