Five Malay political parties are competing for the same electorate. If you remove 'the logos and personalities', is there truly any distinction among them?
Yet, with two state elections imminent, a collection of splinter groups, all waving similar versions of the same nationalist banner, are each pursuing those roughly 13 million Malay voters.
Once we set aside the logos and personalities, there is little to differentiate them
"Once we set aside the logos and personalities, there is not much difference between them," Syaza Shukri, an associate professor of political science at the International Islamic University Malaysia, informed This Week in Asia.