Posted on 01 July 2009 By Shanon Shah.
WHEN the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) finally rejected forming any unity government with the Barisan Nasional (BN), it alleged that the idea was “a malicious and desperate attempt to compromise the integrity of the PR.” The proponents of the idea from PAS and Umno, however, had earlier defended it as being in the interest of Muslim [...]
Tags: Barisan Nasional, Koh Swe Yong, Mavis Puthucheary, Pakatan Rakyat, Umno, joseph liow, unity government
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Posted on 05 February 2009 By Shanon Shah and Zedeck Siew.
Tarnished silver (© Chris Deraud / sxc.hu) THE silver state is in crisis, with the Pakatan Raykat-led state government having lost its majority in the legislative assembly with four assemblypersons leaving its fold. Now, with the Perak government in limbo, experts tell The Nut Graph that the best option for the formation of a state [...]
Tags: Perak, Shad Saleem Faruqi, Shanon Shah, Umno, Zedeck Siew, by-election, crossover, decision, dissolution, dissolve state, hopping, james chin, joseph liow, pakatan, party, pas, people's mandate, snap, sultan, swing, switch, vote
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