Will 2024 be a Big Year for the Madani Administration?

Will 2024 be a Big Year for the Madani Administration? By Shahril Hamdan SYNOPSIS By the end of the Aidilfitri gatherings of food, handshakes and selfies in a little over a month’s time, the Anwar government would have marked 18 months in Putrajaya. [...] The government can point to the fact that the labour market is tight and has essentially recovered to pre-pandemic levels. [...] The external circumstances and fundamentals of the economy may be markedly different, but the mental association doubtless dampens the domestic mood. [...] Nonetheless, the situation can objectively be said to be better if and when wages actually increased, and things like the SEZ actually kick off with projects and economic opportunities registered to contribute to an overall feeling that the nation is back on track. [...] What the governor – or anyone else – cannot know is whether the Prime Minister has the creativity, capacity or will to spend the political capital necessary to be an administration of consequence and not just another edition in Malaysia’s long line of incrementalist governments.