nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210302-154032-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210302s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210302-154032-0 doi eng 342 23 Balasubramaniam, Ratna Rueban Author aut COVID-19: Malaysia’s Fragile Constitutional Democracy Balasubramaniam, Ratna Rueban Verfassungsblog 2021-03-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The COVID-19 pandemic occasioned a de facto worldwide state of exception. In Malaysia, the beginning of the pandemic would coincide with political turmoil. In 2018, a democratic reformist government surprisingly rose to power after unexpectedly winning the general election. The victory ended six decades of ethnocratic and authoritarian rule under the United Malay National Organization (“UMNO”), a Malay nationalist party committed to a political doctrine of ethnic “Malay Dominance.” However, in March 2020, just as the WHO declared a global pandemic, a series of political machinations brought down the reformist government. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 COVID 19 Malaysia Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/covid-19-malaysias-fragile-constitutional-democracy/ raw object