Even though Pakatan Harapan-BN managed to retain Negeri Sembilan, Selangor and Penang in the state election, Perikatan Nasional (PN) also made significant gains.

PN’s electoral performance shows that the unity government is unsuccessful in appealing to a more conservative Malay-Muslim voter base.

The most obvious sign of this is that BN, which was supposed to play the role of attracting Malay votes to the alliance...