Malaysian opp won’t cooperate with Islamic party

Bloomberg

Malaysia’s opposition alliance
said it won’t cooperate with the country’s largest Islamic party
at the next elections, raising the possibility of multiple-cornered fights that could benefit the ruling coalition.
Pakatan Harapan is working on a strategy to avoid three-cornered contests, it said in a statement on Tuesday, without elaborating. The alliance is made up of four parties. The Islamic group known as PAS split from an earlier version of the opposition grouping in 2015.
The opposition has failed to capitalize on gains made in the 2013 election, when it won the popular vote for the first time, though Pakatan is betting that dissatisfaction against Prime Minister Najib Razak over living costs will be enough to sway voters.