The Malaysian government’s proposed study on whether Kuala Lumpur should elect its mayor instead of being appointed has detonated into what observers call a familiar “cultural war” over race, power and who gets to run the nation’s capital.
The feasibility study announced by Hannah Yeoh, a minister from the Chinese-dominated Democratic Action Party, has also drawn criticism that the exercise is a political project pushed by her party.
Findings of the study by the International Islamic University…
