KUALA LUMPUR - Most Malaysians would never have imagined seeing Umno lose power in their lifetime.
So when it happened in 2018 for the first time in Malaysia’s six-decade history, it reverberated around the world, with pundits congratulating the nation for being a bright spark of democracy at a time when dictators were on the rise elsewhere.
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