The Downfall of Pakatan Harapan in Malaysia

In May 2018 the Malaysian governing coalition Pakatan Harapan (PH) lost in national elections for first time since independence. But subsequent reform process came to a sudden halt February 2020. During transitions, unpredictability and risks political actors are higher, conditions extremely volatile. Multiparty coalitions such as PH have trouble sustaining cohesion that was instrumental their electoral victory. The highly polarized environment differing strategic calculations of partners after prompted early downfall government. At same time, opposition, weakened shortly transitional elections, increased its cohesiveness mobilized supporters against government an deep ethnoreligious cleavages. This paper traces successes failures well reconsolidation strengthening new up emergence Perikatan Nasional