Malaysia's opposition has a 'secret weapon' to oust Najib

MALAYSIA (April 21): In a sparse office on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, dozens of millennials are busy crunching numbers, barely looking up from their computers as they sip coffee.

Sunlight filters through the floor-to-ceiling windows onto a concrete floor. Desks are scattered about. Some construction tools are lying in a corner.

This is the home of Invoke, a policy research shop with about 80 employees set up last October by Rafizi Ramli, vice president of the opposition People’s Justice Party, or PKR. He calls the data operation his “secret weapon” to oust Prime Minister Najib Razak in an election expected this year.

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