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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak should resign after returning to office with a reduced majority following this weekend’s election, an ANU academic says.
The leader of Malaysia’s long-governing Barisan Nasional coalition captured 133 of Malaysia’s 222 parliamentary seats to win an electoral majority on Sunday – significantly fewer than the 148 it needed for a two-thirds legislative majority it held for years, but lost in 2008.
Given there was an expectation on Najib to return his party with a two-thirds majority, let alone do better than the 2008 result, there is a possibility he will be removed by the party, according to Greg Lopez, a Malaysia analyst from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Furthermore, for the first time in history, the ruling coalition has lost the popular vote.
“He has never had any legitimacy, because he took over from (predecessor) Adbullah Ahmad Badawi,” Lopez said.
“He has used his personal popularity to lead Barisan Nasional, so the strategy that he has taken was presidential style.
“And if this reduced majority is any indication it means that Malaysians have not welcomed him, because the expectation was that he would deliver a two-third majority.
“Since he has failed…the honourable thing for him is to resign.”
Read the full article at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
Datuk Najib must not step down, this is a chinese political tsunumi and not a malaysian tsunumi. So it is not necesary for Datuk Najib to stepdown.
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chinese tsunami? r you u a parrot? this is urbanites tsunami who are very concern about quality of livinghood and high cost of living. nothing to do with race! Let Najib do what he wants to do to modernise Malaysis since he promise to do so in his manifesto.
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I believed that you had just started a debate with a troll.
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I like how you ask him if he’s a parrot. LoL
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Chinese Tsunami? you must be kidding me. please accept the fact that most people is getting smarter on how the way they think and how to choose the right or the wrong.
although in malaysia, all the TV and newspapers are control by BN-Government!!
who in the earth can accept if the government even can cheat on the election day???? only those who has the benefit from them will support them!
So, LP Selvam…please do not be racist!!i guess you are PARROT!!
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Are you a girl, single and available? if yes i’d marry you right now 😀
i super rate you comment! LOVED IT!
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You racist ungrateful one… Stop blaming the chinese on every cause alright.. I just think your being immature on things happening around.. Naive.. Pathetic..
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Haha, open your eyes. Chinese account for only 20% of the population.
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Please L.P. Selvam sir, our PM is already a joke. Don’t embarrass our country further.
To all Non-Malaysians reading this: trust me, majority of Malaysians are a lot smarter than the idiot PM we have. He totally does NOT represent our country at all.
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seriously dude, u must be left in the dark ages . Chinese political tsunami ??? OMG , a verbose mass of contradiction…. ..
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Hey, OPEN your eyes!
Lots of report in media, Open yr heart & eyes to read on! UNDERSTAND It!
Don’t be BLIND Men!
We want CLEAN ELECTION, CLEANER COUNTRY!
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L.P.Selvam, are u aware what race are you? What do you mean that this is a chinese political tsunami? Najib knows what he has done and all the ppl including malays know what he did to retain his seat and i think you have eyes to see and brain to judge so don’t start racist issues!
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Selvam, dont blame the Chinese. Its all race decided. If you think Chinese is the cause? That means sorrily, the Chinese have the guts and cannot be bought by money unlike the Indians. Why I say this? During the poll, one Indian lady in her 50’s was supportive of BN bcos of BR1M. How short-sighted Indians become when they see MONEY.
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This is what which is bringing down the Indians, I respect the mentality and standing of the Chinese. Being an indian my self i have worked witrh alot of chinese and trust me,they are way strong..They(indians) are easily bought by any medium in the sense of money or gifts.See mr Selvam how cheap we are? No one educates enough about this country to their mother,father,son and daughter….hence end of the day you make a huge mistake by voting the wrong party.
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Are you being ironic?
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Dude i guess you have not done your homework yet. what is your statistics & statements behind this confrontation? do you think 25% population of Chinese in Malaysia can create such big swing? please
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DUDE, DAP HAS MORE PARLIMENT SEATS, SO THEY WILL DEMAND PM OR DEPUTY PM POST. THE ECONOMY IS HELD BY THE CHINESE. IF YOU GO TO ALL CHINESE BUSINESS CENTRE THEY DONT EMPLOY TAMILS, THEY EMPLOY ONLY BANGLAS, MYANMARS, NEPALESE AND OTHERS. THEY DONT EMPLOY THE TAMILS. LOOK IN PRU 14 – 2018. THE CHINESE TSUNAMI WILL BE 100% IF PAKATAN TAKES OVER PUTRAJAYA. HOW MUCH THE TAMILS ARE GOING TO BENEFIT. NOW WE HAVE BN CRONIES, LATER WE WILL HAVE PAKATAN CRONIES. THIS IS MALAYSIAN POLITICS. AT THE END OF THE DAY THE TAMILS WILL NOT BENEFIT.
(L.P. Selvam: Too many capital letters! That’s why so many of your comments won’t make it through to New Mandala. Best wishes to all, Editor: NSF)
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Sorry Selvam,
Guess you have poisoned by the local media streams, that’s why u commented that way!
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Mr Selvam,are u a fan of Mr Najib or you choose to ignore the oblivion truth of this country?Why do you think its not necessary ,can you list down some concrete reason? is it because he has showered you with some one off BRM1?First ask your self where are your position at, then look at the countries economic stand.Then you decide.
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I’m a Malay…and I voted for a chinese candidate. Stop with this stupid argument that Najib is trying to brainwash us with
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Malaysian Chinese population = 30%
PR votes = 50%
Remaining 20% voted by Martian….
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Bro, we all are Malaysians!!!
How Dare you call Chinese tsunami???
Its not race matter, please open your eyes…
in further, maybe in further Malay,Bangla,Myanmar,Indonesian then only Chinese and Indians… Because everyone disappointed about this election… 🙁 :'(
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Ouch. No need to drag race into this. I believe that`s what is called ‘race politics’ and somehow not very conducive to peace.
Brother, what is “Malaysian” to you then? Are the Chinese not Malaysians as well?
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He is< 60 but looks like 90.
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IF NAJIB STEPS DOWN THEN MUHIDIN WILL BE PM. IT WILL BE WORSE.
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Really, that’s the lame reason you are parroting the “Chinese Tsunami” crap??
Look into the mirror every now and then.. there is at least a 6 inch space between your left and right ears. The brain usually goes there.. use it.
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Even if he were to step down, it’s not going to change anything but the PM occupying that PM Office in Putrajaya…It just going to be business as usual….UMNO is not going to change its true color for anyone…
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gosh, you’re still living in the cave..Selvam..
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Selvam,
This is not a “Chinese Tsunami” but an “Awaken Malaysian Tsunami”. Let me back what I said with hard statistics:
I voted in a Selangor state constituency, Seri Serdang (N29) where the majority of the voters are Malays (46%), Chinese (38%) and Indians (15%). The winner is a women candidate from the Islamic Party (PAS). She obtained 39,737 or 62% out of the 64,180 votes casted on Election Day. As the total number of Malays Muslim voters comprise only 46% of the total voters in that seat, the balance of 16% or 11,640 votes came from the non-Muslim Chinese and Indians.
So, what we are seeing on 5 May 2013 are cross voting by voters for candidates of different faith. Gone were the days when non-Muslim voters hesitate or afraid to vote for a Muslim candidate and vice versa. Malaysian have progressed but not UMNO, MCA and MIC which are based on race and religion.
This is a great development in Malaysia and the BN especially UMNO is very worried as they cannot rely solely on communal politics to win votes anymore of which they had been practicing for the last 57 years.
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Hi Malaysia First.
As all votes are treated as confidential, how do you come up with that stats??
You are making assumptions that all Malay Muslim will vote for PAS. That’s wrong. It’s as wrong as the comment to claim the decline of BN support due to Chinese Tsunami. I can spin those numbers as well too, not that I am correct in making those assumptions.
All the Chinese (38%/24,338) voted for PAS. Indians swing their votes to BN (15%). Hence only 24% or 15,403 of the Malays voted for PAS.
Or how about this one… All the Chinese (38%/24,338) voted for PAS. Indians continued their support for PR with their 15% votes. PAS lost their Islamic mandate when only 9% out of 46% of the Malays voted for their candidate.
I’m not trying to create racist remarks here. It’s just that you should not crunch numbers as if you know who the 64,180 voters voted for who.
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Hi Crunching Numbers,
My point in showing the example in Seri Serdang state seat is not to imply that I know who the 64,180 voters voted for.
What I am trying to illustrate that there was cross voting by voters of all races.
As you have clearly ilustrated in your example, even all the Chinese (38%) voted for the PAS candidate, she still need a considerable amount of vote from the Malays and Indian to win that seat.
This is also seen across most of the urban mixed seats in Selangor where many of the winning candidates whether they are from PKR, PAS or DAP obtained votes from across the racial divide.
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Is it necessary Najib to step down? Its a simple majority or two third majority winning is winning! Thats peoples choice.
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Are you sure it’s the people choice? Total popular votes: PR – 50.1% , BN – 46.6% . Think before you comment.
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dude. get your facts right before you comment. 🙂
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its the case of rural … outnumber urban … who wins dude… if it went by popularity vote… he is out. if it was like the USA electoral votes he is also out.. so a bunch of sweet uneducated kampung people (irregarldes of race) determines the country future…. that is simply wonderful
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Karen in the defence of ppl frm the rural areas, its hard to make political choices when you barely can provide a decent living fr yr family. The bloodsuckers from BN pry on these helpless souls to retain their political grip on them
As Malaysians who demand change we must take it up on ourselves to reach out to them, create the awareness of what rights they have been robbed all this while and why change is the only way forward.
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you`re absolutely right, kuhenkv! Instead of pointing fingers we should reach out ourselves and not expect someone else to do it. We are all Malaysians, and if we really want peace we can`t be sitting around shoving blame. Plus, MalaysiaKini has an article about the rural poor and natives being threatened
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228638
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If Najib steps down the new PM will be Muyihiddin. I don’t which is worse – an out and out racist, obvious to all or the smiling racist pretending he is not.
Personally, I don’t mind the outright racist. At least I don’t have to listen to crap (lies) all day and the outside world would see the UMNO leaders as they are.
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if not ge13 we will win ge14.i accept that we have lost.BN will not deny us in 2018.
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K P Tan and Malaysian first, good job.
Selvam and Sam, why so quiet? Coz you know that is the fact. No one recognizes NA-jib as a PM. Not even the King of Malaysia. We the people don’t want TRASH PM.
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Sam you must be ProBN.. are u neglecting the facts? are you trying to say that the rakyat simply creates the videos they’ve encountered in fb ? out of nothing ? let me guess they got nothing else to do after casting their votes..then they must be really really creative lo 😉
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my country was robbed again.. HELP US…
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Its only a Chinese political tsunami when the CANDIDATES and the VOTERS are polarised nationwide to their own kind. Last time I checked, my fellow voters frm the dusun tua div were hoisting PAS flags for a MALAY candidate. MALAYSIANS voted for CHANGE, not for any tsunami
AhJibGor its nt called political tsunami, its called ‘we got tired of the same service provider’ syndrom, ya digg??
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Selvam…pls la dun copycat idiot PM saying on Chinese Tsunami….dats a heavy word.. It makes u d 2nd WALLY idiotic
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Correction – he’s the 3rd wally idiot to say it was Chinese Tsunami! (Dr M repeated the same term on Monday)
Anyway, LP Selvem, I am an Indian and I am ashamed of you! Why are u and the politicians trying to create racial discord? What exactly has BN done for this country? Do you actually think BR1M was a brilliant idea to buy votes? Whose money was that? BN is still living in the dark ages but Malaysians have seen the light. Don’t think we are idiots! It won’t make a difference if Najib steps downs and someone else takes over under BN flagship. After the GE13, no one in BN can be trusted.
55 years under BN’s ruling is more than enough. This is what BN has given us :
– More crimes
– National deficit
– Airplane that does not fly and sub-marine that does not sink – whose pocket did the money go?
– foreigners getting citizenship and blue ICs with a blink of an eye but true born and bred Malaysians are stateless or holding red ICs. Some died without even getting their citizenship which they were waiting for their life!
– only in Malaysia – cows live in condo
– Malaysians who are not bumiputeras do not get equal opportunities in job and education
The list can go on and on.
We need CHANGE. We need a new GOVERNMENT.
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in other south east countries.they intergrete the various races into one community. in malaysia we ve one malaysia..isn t that good enough?
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Its too embarrassing. Please google and you will find out yourself. Time for Najib to step down before it get worse.
And also we should get him and his gang to donate all the money back to poor malaysian.
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Najib will not resign. He’s face is thick like a coffin… He already can use so many dirty tricks yet u think he is willing to step down??? Its ok… he will pay for it…
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Chinese Tsunami, is another BN attempt to blame LKS/DAP on the same 13 May incident.
In 1969, ppl based on media for info, now there is internet, ppl are smarter.
Worry for my fellow msian … as next week is the anniversary.
Why GE is set on May period ? Why Sabah incident, no army is sent earlier? Could army are kept in Selangor to protect PM if there is uprising.
It sound like they had plan ahead when thing turn worst after GE. Unfortunately, it didnt.
PR need military support to turn thing around. Just like Thailand, where military storm the gov to take control.
Sad sad how thing turn out…
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It is quite common that a party receives more votes from some groups and less from others. This is the reason why coalitions have to be formed. What counts is what party/coalition receives the majority of votes and thus represents the interests of most voters.
Whether one likes it or not, BN has received a clear majority of votes (following the Malaysian election system) and thus the candidate of the coalition with the majority should be the new prime minister. I see no reason whatever, why Najib should resign due to the election results!
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I’m very disappointed on how they cheated during the election. It is really embarassing living in this kind of Country. Yes, you should Stepdown. You dont deserve to become our PM. You win because you cheated by sending all the Bangla to vote. You gave them IC. It is really not acceptable. 🙁
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I STAND BY MY COMMENT THIS IS 100% CHINESE TSUNAMI. THE CHINESE USE THE TAMILS FOR THEIR BENEFIT AND LATER THEY WILL CHUCK THEM OFF. LOOK AT DAP IT IS TOTALLY A CHINESE CHAUNISTIC PARTY. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW TAMILS JUST TO HOOK VOTES.
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retrospectively speaking; I’m a kadazan, the Kepayan was DUN was a Chinese majority area, DAP candidate was Edwin Bosi a Kadazan from Penampang, and he won by 200% majority defeating BN Edward Khoo despite his good form. And you’re a toad tool fro speaking using your knee cap.
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Back to the topic of the article, it is a fact that BN has fared worse in this election which means BN has lost popularity under his leadership. That is a strong basis for his partymates to demand his resignation
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James Chin analyses the options for Barisan Nasional to reform.
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It is the fact that the majority citizens of malaysia has lost their faith to the goverment.Anyway,our ringgit currency has been dropped like potatoe and also thanks for the increase of crime rates,bribery,abused of autorities,cheating during election and poor performances.Compare to singapore,u suck.other than that, wawasan 2020 ,forget about it,impossible to acheive already.
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Just wondering, what the issue is about a ‘Chinese Tsunami’?
If a ‘Chinese Tsunami’ means that Malaysian Chinese prefer a less corrupt Malay/Islamist government, something that they hope that the Malay/Islamist led Pakatan Rakyat can provide, is that a bad thing?
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malaysian are getting smarter now since google..
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Dear all.I hate to see when ‘some’stupid politician ,who has a peanut sized brain is able to sway our fellowship among Malaysians.We are Malaysians,Malays,Chinese and Indians- period.The truth is, now,the PM has done something ,in his most ernest effort to catapult us ,Malaysia ,out to the world but unfortunately its by accidental discovery of his corrupt practices trying to rob us dry.Come on for the sake of GOD and FROG.Do the ‘dumb’politicians really believe that we are sooooooooooo stupid to beleive their same lame stale ‘political nursery rhymes’ which by the way, change day by in .One fellows says he is willing to take a bet RM 1000 that the news is ot true and then the news comes out that the money was indeed deposited in the alleged account but the sources were not as they seemed to be.I mean,this makes teh Watergate and Marcos scandal petty.
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