In Malaysia’s recent elections, opposition parties managed their strongest showing since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1957, cutting the ruling coalition’s parliamentary majority to below two-thirds. Where the country’s newly invigorated democracy goes from here rests with one man, Anwar Ibrahim, the deputy prime minister sacked by former premier Mahathir Mohamad and later jailed.
在马来西亚最近的选举中，反对党派表现出了自该国于1957年摆脱英国统治获得独立以来最强的态势，将执政联盟的议会多数席位削减到了不足三分之二。该国重获新生的民主何去何从还要看Anwar Ibrahim的作为。曾任副总理的他被前总理马哈蒂尔解职后又投入监狱。