
Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin has once again proven he is not easily shoved off the stage – but a political analyst expects things to get uglier and more brutal until the party president is ousted.
Muhyiddin had evidently survived an attempted coup that fell flat, another analyst said, but survival was not a strategy and Muhyiddin would need to do more if the party was to make headway at the next general election.
At the party’s annual assembly over the weekend, Muhyiddin had faced poison pen letters, delegates shouting in the hall and dissent that was previously quiet now coming out into the open.
Just a few hours before his keynote speech at the party’s general assembly on Saturday, 122 of 169 division chiefs broke ranks to have lunch 5km away from Ideal Convention Centre where the assembly was held.
One of the delegates who attended…