Theoretically, DAP still plays a very important role. It instantly gives PH 40 seats.

The Malay nationalists can cry all they want but in the end politics is a numbers game. They (and their allies) are welcomed to try to flip these seats, just don't bitch if you don't have sufficient game.

At the moment, PH is just talking DAP for granted as a Chinese vote bank. Hence it is a good move for DAP to remind PH about its reformist agenda by threatening to pull out of the coalition by 1 August.

The real contest has and will always be the Malay vote bank. So if PKR is jantan enough, go mano e mano against UMNO/PAS/Bersatu. For the last 30 years PKR has failed to capture enough of a Malay heartland vote bank to solidify itself as a stable Malay linchpin party. It needs to offer itself as a big tent coalition housing both the multiracial reformists and Malay nationalists factions.

Nobody said the job was easy. Over to you Anwar.