So, who is in charge? Anwar? Zahid? Or are they all being manipulated by Najib from his control room at Kajang HQ?

– Mariam Mokhtar

COMMENT | It is not about who is in charge, but rather, who is conspiring with whom to maintain power and reshape the political landscape.

People forget that when Anwar Ibrahim was ejected from the Umno paradise, he changed everything. When the opposition denied Umno/BN its two-thirds majority, it demonstrated that people's power could overturn decades of political hegemony.

When the opposition assumed control of certain states, it sent shivers down the back of the Malay political establishment because it demonstrated that change was inevitable.

Najib Abdul Razak is not the first kleptocrat in this country. He is just the first Big Cheese who was caught. And the only reason why he was caught was because he lost an election and the machinery of government was controlled by the winners....