For activist Haris Ibrahim, the toppling of the Umno/BN government in May 2018 was the fulfilment of a lifetime’s ambition to see a less corrupt and racist administration.

However, it wasn’t long before the miracle win started to turn sour.

“First, with the Pakatan Harapan government - I love these guys, and by and large, a majority of them wanted to do the right thing. I think the problem was that in GE14, the job was to get rid of the rubbish in Putrajaya, but in that process, we unwittingly put some rubbish back and it was proven.

“Certainly, the likes of Azmin Ali, Zuraida Kamaruddin and Saifuddin Abdullah as...