Too early to tell who will be GE16 partners, say analysts

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PETALING JAYA: With the next general election several years away, analysts have looked askance at predictions of electoral partnerships.

James Chin of the University of Tasmania said no political leader can make promises on where their coalition or party will head, or with whom they would cooperate. “Everything will be dependent on two or three years’ time when we go for elections,” he told FMT.

He added: “Nowadays, even one week is very long in Malaysian politics.”

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid of Universiti Sains Malaysia said Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and DAP secretary-general Loke Siew Fook had been non-committal in their recent statements.

He added that the variables at play in each political party could change the political scene very quickly.

The relationships in the current unity government would also change if any political leader dies, he said. “We are speaking of politicians who are mostly already in their 70s, so let’s be realistic, deaths can happen at any time and change the political equation.”

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