Wealth inequality, corruption: Malaysian rock band’s debut album strikes out at the country’s political system

Tension spread across Malaysia on the night of May 9, 2018, as the nation waited for results of the general election.Rumours of phantom voters and power outages in some polling stations were rife on Twitter and speculation focused on the possibility that the opposition coalition would finally seize power from the National Front, which had ruled the country since 1957.It was not until well after midnight that the Election Commission finally announced that the former ruling party had lost to the…

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