Malaysia’s UMNO Faces Election Ouster, Sort of

Malaysia’s 1988 judicial crisis, in which the United Malays National Organization – the country’s biggest political party – was termed an illegal party, has come back to haunt the incumbent Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, just as it did the erstwhile PM, Mahathir Mohamad.

The architect of the crisis in 1988 was PM Mahathir, just as the architect of tod…