“Avoid racial topics. It would be best if non-Malays do not launch personal attacks against rival Malay leaders, especially those with religious backgrounds. The sensitivity can be twisted to portray non-Muslims mocking Islam. Let us Muslims take the lead and expose.”

– PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli

COMMENT | So far on the campaign stump, Anwar Ibrahim has done just that. 

The Pakatan Harapan chief may have made a hasty exit from that student forum but where it counts, on the stump, Anwar is sounding more like the old reformasi provocateur that splintered the Malay vote.

Honestly, I wondered about Saudara Anwar. I am not talking about whether he really is the kind of visionary Malaysian that could lead us out of this quagmire.

No, I am talking about if he still had what it takes, to win elections after all his failed attempts at trying to craft a backdoor of his own.

Anwar’s loyalists tell me that they were waiting for an election to fire up the old man. Now that Parliament was no longer in play, he could fully turn his attention to the general election....