COMMENT At 3am on May 6, hours after the Election Commission announced that BN had secured a simple majority of 112 parliamentary seats, I wrote in Malaysiakini explaining that an urban tsunami had washed over Malaysia. Urban voters of all ethnicity and religions rejected the BN formula of race-based politics.

Last night in Petaling Jaya and all roads leading to the Kelana Jaya stadium, some 120,000 Malaysians of all ethnicities and religions gathered to express their dissatisfaction about how the results of the GE were reached. This was a spontaneous gathering that overwhelmed even its organisers, Pakatan Rakyat...