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Ruling coalition wins Malaysia's general
election
Monday May 06, 2013 07:52:09 PM,
IANS
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Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's ruling coalition won a fiercely contested general
election with a comparatively slimmer majority, polling results
showed early Monday. The opposition declined to accept the result
citing electoral fraud allegations.
The ruling coalition Barisan National secured 133 seats in the
222-seat lower house of parliament, down from the 140 seats in the
last election in 2008.
The ruling coalition owns its victory largely to the lead in its
strongholds of the state of Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia,
which contributed a total of 47 parliamentary seats, reported
Xinhua.
Barisan managed to make some improvement in the state elections,
in which it won in nine out of the 12 states contested.
Speaking at a press conference early Monday, Barisan chairman and
caretaker Prime Minister Najib Razak urged the opposition to
accept the election result "with open heart".
He also stressed that the Barisan government would fulfill all the
promises it made to the public.
The ruling coalition survived a "Chinese Tsunami" as the Chinese
minority voted overwhelmingly for the opposition, which Najib said
he didn't expect.
"I expected to some extent, but I didn't expect to this extent,"
he said.
Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said
Barisan is depending of its large support in the rural areas
dominated by the Malay majority, while doing badly in urban areas.
Meanwhile, the opposition has declined to accept the election
results, accusing wide spread to electoral fraud in the election.
"We are not accepting the results," opposition leader Anwar
Ibrahim told a press conference, "until the Election Commission
responds and issues an official statement to the allegations of
irregularities and fraud".
Anwar has claimed victory shortly after the close of polling,
urging the ruling coalition and election commission "not to hijack
the results".
A record high of more than 80 percent of the 13.3 million voters
cast ballots in the closest election ever held in the country.
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