Lucy Hocking's was joined on BBC World News by Baroness Cox, the founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust charity and by Nurul Islam, of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation.
This new class of reformers includes Mr. Anwar's soft-spoken but charismatic daughter, Nurul Izzah Ibrahim, who won one of the election's hardest-fought battles, prevailing against a well-funded federal minister in a middle-class Kuala Lumpur district.