The brewing constitutional crisis explained
KiniGuide Published: Jul 31, 2021 2:13 AM
| Updated: Jul 31, 2021 10:45 AM
KINIGUIDE | Here's what we know about the dramatic 'ending' of the emergency.
KINIGUIDE | Here's what we know about the dramatic 'ending' of the emergency.
We do not and cannot now know how this confrontation will end. But some things have become and been made clear. Among them an important one is this: That Malay royal power is at its greatest and most effective when the YDPA and Malay Rulers act not as "traditional Malay monarchs" -- as the inheritors and backward-looking latter-day upholders of ancient customary prerogatives -- but as the embodiment and personification, and as the guardians-of-last-resort, of modern national democratic constitutionalism.