Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia
| Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia Malaysian United Indigenous Party |
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| Party leader | Muhyiddin Yassin |
| Secretary General | Marzuki Yahya |
| founding | September 8, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Kuala Lumpur |
| Alignment | National conservatism |
| Colours) | Red White |
| Parliament seats | 36 of 222 ( Dewan Rakyat , 2018 ) |
| Website | www.pribumibersatu.org |
The Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (abbreviated BERSATU or PPBM ; English Malaysian United Indigenous Party ) is a national conservative political party in Malaysia that was founded on September 8, 2016. The party is led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin . She has been the Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2018.
Full membership of the party is open to all Bumiputeras . Non-Bumiputeras can also join the party as associate members, although they are not allowed to vote in party elections and vote. However, qualified individuals can be appointed to certain key party positions.
history
The party was founded on September 8, 2016 by renegade members of the nationally long-dominant United Malays National Organization (UMNO). The long-time Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad was one of the most prominent defectors .
For the 2018 parliamentary election , the party ran as part of the opposition alliance Pakatan Harapan ("Alliance of Hope"), together with the liberal Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) of Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and the social democratic Democratic Action Party (DAP). The alliance won the election, so that the previously ruling UMNO had to go into the opposition for the first time since Malaysia's independence. According to the agreement, Mahathir bin Mohamad was elected Prime Minister, but he was later to hand over governance to Anwar Ibrahim of the PKR.
This did not happen, however, as the PPBM terminated the coalition in February 2020 and entered into a new alliance - Perikatan Nasional ("National Alliance") - with the UMNO and its allies as well as the Islamist PAS . The PPBM continues to provide the head of government, but after Mahathir's resignation, Muhyiddin Yassin took over this office.
Alignment
The party is ideologically close to the old United Malays National Organization. It sees itself as a defender of the interests of the majority of the population of the Bumiputra and as a guardian of the Islamic religion.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arfa Yunus: Syed Saddiq pledges to do away with PPBM's Bumiputera-centric position. January 17, 2018, accessed March 4, 2020 .