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March 29, 2008

There’s No Real Winner in Malaysian Assembly

By Joceline Tan, The Star, Malaysia - Grown men do cry and tears flowed among the Terengganu assemblymen when told that the Umno supreme council had decided to endorse the palace’s preference of Datuk Ahmad Said as Mentri Besar. The incumbent was out and Said, whom they had so strenuously objected to, was in. The outcome sets a disturbing precedent for Constitutional practices.

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