The next three months will be crucial for Malaysia’s unity government, as a handful of states head to the polls.
Mr Anwar’s closest advisors, who have weekly private interactions with the premier, noted that there is a general perception that the prime minister may not be moving fast enough on the reform front. They told CNA this is largely because the government is not able to boast about any breakout policy shift apart from the mantra of promoting good governance.
Government sources told CNA that the little-publicised reorganisation in the top echelons of the country’s powerful civil service is one of Mr Anwar’s most important initiatives over the last three months. He went further last month when he appointed Mr Johan Mahmood Merican, a Cambridge-educated chartered accountant who is not a career technocrat, as the new secretary general of the Treasury, signaling that he was ready to inject new dynamism with outside appointments into the cliquish bureaucracy.
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