TREE NEWS update: Malaysia’s Transport Minister Anthony Loke resigned on 19 May, protesting the conditional pardon granted to former prime minister Najib Razak that allows him to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest. Loke, secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party, announced the decision after a DAP central executive committee meeting. He said other DAP ministers will not resign. DAP holds the most parliamentary seats in Malaysia’s coalition government.
Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke Resigns Over Najib Pardon
AI take
Loke's resignation is notable less as a coalition rupture than as a contained protest: he explicitly says other DAP ministers will stay, so the government's parliamentary arithmetic appears intact for now. The signal is that the Najib pardon is politically costly enough for the coalition's largest party that its secretary-general chose exit over acquiescence. The open question is whether this remains a single resignation or becomes a fault line inside DAP and the wider coalition.
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