Power plays, new neighbours and takeover whispers
A Sunday potpourri of stalled reforms, 5G and dealmakers.
In today’s bag of stories:
👑 Nurul Izzah’s rise to PKR deputy president and what it says about Anwar’s power play.
📶 From takeovers to collaborations, Maxis weighs its 5G endgame.
🏢 Private equity firms move into Menara Integra, right where KWAP calls home.
Nothing on the Asean conference in today’s brief, save for major road closures around Kuala Lumpur. The things we endure for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s vanity projects.
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Nurul Izzah Anwar predictably won the PKR deputy president post.
This means we’ll have a new economy minister as that was what Rafizi Ramli promised he’d do if he lost his party's polls.
Traditionally, that post goes to another PKR MP or someone in PM Anwar Ibrahim’s good books.
But that thinking rests on the idea that Anwar commands a two-thirds majority as the chief of a single coalition. He doesn’t.
Like how Anwar became PM, the final nod for the economy minister portfolio this time will come from the king.