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Malaysia’s Political Earthquake

Malaysia’s Political Earthquake

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Mar 09, 2008
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Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could well lose his job after the country awoke to a radically political landscape Sunday, with the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition having suffered its biggest defeat since independence, losing five state parliaments outright and its two-thirds majority in the national parliament.

The relative drubbing in Saturday’s…

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