Malaysian Budget: Coalescing of political rivals comes not a moment too soon
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IT now looks like Malaysia's 2021 Budget will enjoy a measure of bipartisan support, despite earlier misgivings that Putrajaya's ill-fated attempt to impose a state of emergency was designed to circumvent parliamentary scrutiny of its expenditure proposals.
Opposition parties were invited to give their inputs in the budget-making process last weekend. Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz met representatives of the opposition Pakatan Harapan coalition parties, as well as representatives of Umno, the restive senior partner in Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's own governing coalition.
The Budget speech is set to be delivered on Friday.
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