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Malaysia election: Both Muhyiddin and Anwar stake claim to form government following polls

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Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional emerged with the largest bloc of seats from the election. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s two rival prime minister candidates Anwar Ibrahim and Muhyiddin Yassin both staked their claim to form the country’s next government in the early hours of Sunday, after pollsFormer premier Muhyiddin and hundreds of supporters from his Perikatan Nasional coalition celebrated at a hotel in Glenmarie, Selangor after he declared they had won 73 out of the 222 seats in Parliament.

“We have received a letter from the National Palace with instructions on the requirements we need to fulfill according to the King. We need to do it as soon as possible. We will have a meeting tomorrow. Hopefully, everything will be concluded by tomorrow afternoon,” he told a news conference early Sunday. He did not provide further details of what these requirements were.

Around the same time some six kilometres away in Subang Jaya, Opposition Leader Mr Anwar claimed that his PH coalition has gained a simple majority of more than 112 parliamentary seats, enough to form the next government.

 

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