After over half a century of independence, Malaysians for the first time elect a government other than the incumbent party.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/423990

https://identi.ca/avadiax/note/psFeIxaGT4mW4RMnySOf4g thinks this is amazing and hopes Singapore's PAP is the next to fall.

I'm wondering if this will really make Malaysia a "normal country in which race and religion would not be an unalloyed obsession", or if the de facto single party system is what has kept the country together in the face of racial and religious obsession.

In Singapore, even more so.

/cc @moonman