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Malaysia's Malay Vote Fractures as New Parties Emerge

Malaysia's political landscape is seeing an increase in parties vying for Malay votes, with five major Malay-oriented parties now competing. The newest addition, Parti Wawasan Negara, was recently announced by former minister Hamzah Zainudin. This fragmentation of the Malay vote, historically dominated by Umno and PAS, presents a complex electoral scenario. AI

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Malaysia's Malay Vote Fractures as New Parties Emerge

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Iman Muttaqin Yusof ·

    Malaysia’s fight for Malay votes becomes a multiparty scrum

    For much of Malaysia’s post-independence history, Malay voters largely faced a binary choice: Umno, the oldest Malay nationalist political party that governed the country for more than six decades until 2018, or the Islamist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS). But with two state e…