A DEPLETING war chest and a fractious opposition that’s gaining cohesion is making Najib Razak go on the defensive, the South China Morning Post reports political analysts as saying.

Long-time scholar on Malaysian affairs Dr Bridget Welsh, who is now visiting professor of political science at John Cabot University in Rome, said the Dr Mahathir Mohamad-Anwar Ibrahim alliance was bound by their common desire to remove Najib and look to the future.