COVID-19. Make no mistake, it’s still here amongst us. With the R0 value dropping with every passing week, and universal vaccine coverage inching closer, many features of ‘normal’ life has started to resume. But that does not mean it has been eradicated.
Despite daily new cases now only hovering around the 5,000 mark, the powers that be decided that the time is ripe to go back to the polls. The testing ground for this exercise? None other than the historical state of Melaka.
Citing allegations of embezzlement and mismanagement of the state’s resources, former Melaka Chief Minister Idris Haron – along with three other state assemblymen – withdrew their support for the Sulaiman Md Ali administration on 4 October this year.
In response, the State Legislative Assembly was dissolved (amid protestations), triggering an election, and they each…