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Previously known as the Persatuan Perikatan Parti Malaysia (PPPM; lit. ' Malaysian Party Alliance Association ' ). [ 7 ] It is the second largest political coalition in Dewan Rakyat with 74 seats after Pakatan Harapan (PH) with 81 seats.
In Malaysian politics, a frog (Malay: katak politik) (Sabahan: Buhangkut politik) refers to an act where a politician crosses the bench from one party to another (changing support). [1] This term was first coined in during the 1994 Sabah state elections after United Sabah Party losing its majority even the party won the state elections.
The Alliance of Hope, officially Pakatan Harapan (PH; stylised as HARAPAN), is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
Utusan Malaysia traces its roots to 1939 when it was first published as Utusan Melayu, with its address at Queen Street, Singapore.It was founded by several Malay Union members (including businessman Ambo Sooloh and journalists Yusof Ishak and Abdul Rahim Kajai) as a dedicated print owned by native Malayan Malays back when the Malay-language newspaper industry was dominated by Jawi Peranakans ...
The monarch of Malaysia is the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA), commonly referred to as the Supreme King of Malaysia. Malaysia is a constitutional elective monarchy, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is selected for a five-year term from among the nine Sultans of the Malay states. The other four states that do not have monarch kings, are ruled by ...
The Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Malay: Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia; abbrev: BERSATU or PPBM) is a nationalist political party in Malaysia. [1] The party was preceded by the United Indigenous Association of Malaysia ( Malay : Persatuan Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia ) and founded by members of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO ...
Free Malaysia Today emerged from the aftermath of the 1990s Reformasi period in Malaysian history, during which Malaysia's government, under Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, attacked various journalistic media in response to their efforts to investigate the government—particularly its prosecution of Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.
The global COVID-19 pandemic spread to Malaysia in late January 2020. The first major local outbreak occurred at a Tablighi Jamaat religious event in Kuala Lumpur in late February 2020. [44] [45] As the pandemic emerged as a global crisis by March 2020, including in Malaysia, it has had major economic, social and political impacts. [9] [46]