Political scientist predicts Umno will swing further to the right

AS the defeated Barisan Nasional tries to get its act together as the country’s new opposition, political scientist Wong Chin Huat said it could remain a moderate rival or potentially become a “nasty” one.

Wong is predicting the possibility of BN’s lynchpin party Umno and Islamist party PAS converging, and BN parties or its former component members in East Malaysia forming a block of their own to challenge Pakatan Harapan.