COMMENT | The campaigning for GE15 has already begun in the parliamentary seats of Bagan Datuk and Tambun in Perak, though the hustings don’t begin in earnest until nominations on Nov 5.

Strangely, however, given the stakes involved there has been an absence of broadsides between the dramatis personae: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the Umno president and incumbent MP for Bagan Datuk, and Anwar Ibrahim, Pakatan Harapan’s prime ministerial-designate and aspirant MP for Tambun...