He leads a breakaway party (the Malaysian United Indigenous Party [1]) that jumped over two years ago from the ruling party to the opposition coalition. That p

He leads a breakaway party (the Malaysian United Indigenous Party [1]) that jumped over two years ago from the ruling party to the opposition coalition. That party is only a bit over 10% of the coalition that won this election (12 / 113 seats); he's basically a figurehead/placeholder with good name recognition, holding the spot until the leader of the largest party in the coalition (Anwar Ibrahim of the People's Justice Party [2], with 49 of the coalition's seats) finishes the jail sentence for his politically-motivated sodomy charges. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_United_Indigenous_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_United_Indigenous_Pa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Justice_Party_(Malaysia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Justice_Party_(Mala...