Under the influence of factors such as the new crown epidemic and the downward trend of the global economy of , the political situation in many countries has been relatively rare. In addition to the UK replacing three prime ministers in less than two months, Malaysia , one of the founding countries of ASEAN , also showed an unprecedented situation during the election. In the 15th Congressional election, none of the parties participating in the election won more than half of the seats in the House of Commons, resulting in a "suspended parliament" in Malaysia, a situation that has never been seen in history. Who to serve as the new Prime Minister of Malaysia and how to form a new government has become a close concern for all parties.
According to relevant Malaysian laws and regulations, to become the ruling party in the general election, you need to obtain at least 112 seats in the House of Commons. However, the primary election results released by the Malaysian Election Commission show that the Hope League, which has the highest votes, has only won 82 seats, which is still 30 seats away from being in power. The National League was followed closely by a total of 73 seats. The National Front, which had long been in charge of the Malaysian regime, suffered a serious defeat in this general election, winning only 30 seats, while the rest were won by some local political parties.
When no absolute advantage of each party, forming a new government has become an option. After the election situation was clear, Anwar , the leader of the Hope Alliance, held a press conference to announce that it had received the support of more than half of the members of parliament and was preparing to establish a new government. At the same time, the National Alliance led by former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin also announced that it would negotiate with other political parties to jointly establish a new government. It is not surprising that the two political parties with relatively obvious advantages in the general election made the same declaration. After all, the gap between the two sides is not too big. As long as either side unites with the National Front, they can basically sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.
But the problem is that the National Front has previously announced that it will not support any alliance that forms a cabinet and will serve as the opposition party. Moreover, neither side disclosed which political parties or MPs had received support, and the situation remained unclear. In this case, Malaysia's highest head of state Abdullah issued a decree requiring the leaders or party leaders of political parties who claim to have the majority of seats to submit the results of the alliance between the parties and the candidates for prime minister within a limited time, and emphasized the word integrity in the decree.
From the subsequent Malaysian National Palace issued a statement, postponing the limited time by one day, the Hope League and the National League may not have more than half of the seats in the parliament, so an extra day was given, and the two sides were still in a state of strife. However, within the limited time, the two sides still did not have the power to unite the majority. In the end, Abdullah came forward in person to resolve the deadlock in Malaysia's political arena and appointed Anwar as the new prime minister.
Since 2018, Malaysia has replaced 5 prime ministers, which shows the chaos in its political arena, which is no less than that of the UK. The main problem with this situation is that no prime minister can lead Malaysia out of economic difficulties, so after Anwar takes office, he must find ways to get out of the economic difficulties while maintaining political stability. In the context of a global economic downturn, China has performed extremely well, so Anwar turned his attention to China.
At the press conference after being sworn in, Anwar said that the priority of the new Malaysian government is to enhance bilateral relations with China. When asked about China's relations with Malaysia, Anwar also emphasized that China is an important neighbor and has a "significant" status. He will not only allow China-Malaysia relations to maintain the status quo, but will strengthen the relationship between China and Malaysia in the fields of economy, trade, investment, culture, etc.
China and Malaysia have maintained quite close economic and trade cooperation. The investment and trade matching meeting successfully held in September this year has reached hundreds of cooperation results in the fields of new energy, agricultural products, consumer goods, etc., with an amount of more than 14 billion yuan. If Anwar can stabilize Malaysia's political arena and maintain the close trade cooperation trend between China and Malaysia, then China will become the biggest helper for Anwar to lead Malaysia out of its economic difficulties.
