Barisan Nasional
The Barisan Nasional ( Malay for National Front , abbreviated to BN ) is a political coalition of currently 13 parties in Malaysia .
The coalition was founded in 1973 by Abdul Razak , then Prime Minister of Malaysia , as the successor organization to the Alliance and has held the majority in the Malaysian parliament ever since .
The chairman has been Prime Minister Najib Razak since 2009 . His predecessor at the head of the coalition and government was Abdullah Ahmad Badawi .
In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , the coalition lost the important two-thirds majority that allows constitutional changes. The most important political opponent of the BN is the opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat , which is led by Anwar Ibrahim , a former BN politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Member parties
The dominant party in the coalition is the UMNO , which represents the Malays , the largest ethnic group in Malaysia. All six of the previous Prime Ministers of Malaysia are or were members of the UMNO. Other important parties are the MCA and MIC , which represent the interests of the ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia.
The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), which holds eight seats in the Malaysian parliament elected in 2018, resigned from the Barisan Nasional on September 17, 2008.
- GRM Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia
- LDP Liberal Democratic Party
- MCA Malaysian Chinese Association
- MIC Malaysian Indian Congress
- PBRS Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah
- PBS Parti Bersatu Sabah
- PBB Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu
- PPP People Progressive Party
- PRS Parti Rakyat Sarawak
- SPDP Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
- SUPP Sarawak United People's Party
- UPKO United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organization
- UMNO United Malays National Organization
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ NZZ: New parliament elected in Malaysia
- ↑ Inter-Parliamentary Union: IPU PARLINE database: MALAYSIA (Dewan Rakyat), Last elections. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .