On Friday, the Malaysian government will table the annual budget with an overarching focus on rebuilding lives, livelihoods and the economy that have taken a pounding due to the pandemic. The government has a wafer-thin majority in Parliament and there has been a recent unsuccessful attempt to unseat Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. 25 MPs have given no-confidence motions against the administration as well. “Yassin is in a delicate position but I think we can expect the budget to be passed,” Dr Francis Hutchinson, Coordinator of the Malaysia Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. These motions do pose a risk to stability but Yassin has a number of things going for him, Dr Hutchinson told StratNews Global. Listen in for more.

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