Malaysian politics in the post-2008 has started to gain its own currency. People’s proclivity towards the rapid rise ofudthe opposition was perceived as an emerging trend due to political instability. The direction is indeed escalating in audmore persuasive ways. The advent of inter-party system establishment, particularly the opposition, has provided audsignificant political comprehension as it grew out of the misplaced ideological attachment. People started to opt forudthe opposition and perceived it as the bringer of dissenting voices and awaited yardstick to ensure greaterudparticipation and pave the way for democratization. The emerging trend in the post-2008 has to a certain extentuddisclosed an uneasy feeling for the ruling BN in maintaining some sort of penetrated status quo. However the caseudwas a bit different in the September 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election. The by-election was called to be held andudwitnessed the struggling competing parties, namely between BN (UMNO) and PR (PAS). This article, somehow,udfound that the inter-party establishment (PR) strategy did not affect much in the case of Pengkalan Kubor byelectionuddue to certain factors, be it internal and as well as external. Thus, it led to a strong suggestion that theudopposition inter-party system establishment should (re)-strategize its collective strategy, making it more adaptable toudthe current socio-politico milieu.
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