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Voting begins in Sabah; Malaysiakini to report results live
SABAH POLLS | Polling centres are open, and voting is underway for the Sabah election.
A total of 73 seats are up for grabs, with 37 needed to form a government.
At the heart of the election is...
SABAH POLLS | Polling centres are open, and voting is underway for the Sabah election.
A total of 73 seats are up for grabs, with 37 needed to form a government.
At the heart of the election is a battle between those aligned to Putrajaya, like Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS), BN, and Pakatan Harapan, and parties positioning themselves as state rights proponents like Warisan, Upko, and Star.
GRS, the incumbent ruling coalition, is also seeking to diminish the influence of its former ally BN, while Perikatan Nasional is looking to claw back influence in the state after GRS defected from the coalition in 2022.
Malaysiakini will be reporting the results live once polling closes at 6pm.
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Since 2023,Malaya portal has waged a concerted campaign to slander and smear Sabah, working in collusion with convicted tax evader Albert Tei. From 2020 onwards, not a single positive article about Sabah has appeared on the portal. Fully 99% of its Borneo coverage targets Sabah for defamation, while Sarawak receives almost zero attention, because portal was sued twice by Taib Mahmud and Abang Jo, forced to retract articles and pay damages. This toxic, agenda-driven reporting actively scares away investors and harms Sabah’s FDI. We urge the GRS government to immediately sue Malaya portal for attempting to destabilise the state and to permanently ban all its shareholders, board of directors, reporters, and staff from entering Sabah. #SABAH MAJU JAYA. #RUMAH KITA, KITA JAGA
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