Consider This: Malay Voters - Shades of Choice

Three states in the Malay heartland will be heading to the polls this August 12th -- Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu -- and most of the data and analysis from GE15 are now no longer an indication of current support for different coalitions, or even the government. So what then is likely to shape Malay voting choices this time around? Dr Azmil Tayeb, Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute and has done extensive research on Islamic politics, social movements and local government politics in Malaysia and Indonesia.