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7 unusual facts about Pakatan Rakyat


Badrul Hisham Shaharin

Badrul Hisham Shaharin or better known as Chegubard is a Malaysian activist and politician from Parti Keadilan Rakyat in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.

Eli Wong

Ms Wong, a bespectacled, single 37-year-old, is a noted member of the Keadilan party, whose leader Anwar Ibrahim, steers the three-member Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance.

Janice Lee

She is fending off political attacks from her former party Democratic Action Party (DAP) and other sects from the Pakatan Rakyat.

Nasarudin Hashim

His defection from the People's Justice Party (PKR) to the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)—days after he had defected the other way—helped cause the collapse of the Pakatan Rakyat government of which PKR was a component party.

People's Alliance

The Pakatan Rakyat, an informal Malaysian political coalition known as the People's Alliance in English

Zainon Ismail C.N. Afghani

Kafirkah Aku? hits out at the hypocrisy of Abdul Hadi when DAP, a mainly non-muslim party joined hand-in-hand with PAS as a partner in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.

Zambry Abdul Kadir

After three state assemblypersons from the Pakatan Rakyat coalition announced their intention to support a BN candidate for Menteri Besar, and to lend their support to a vote of no confidence in the incumbent Pakatan Rakyat Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak requested Nizar's resignation and swore in Zambry as the new Menteri Besar on 6 February 2009.


2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally

The rally organiser, the Air Untuk Rakyat movement and federal opposition Pakatan Rakyat, had called the protest regarding the privatisation of water management in Selangor state which surrounds the capital, Kuala Lumpur and the federal government's bailout of SYABAS, a water distribution firm controlled by associate of the UMNO-led federal government crony Rozali Ismail.

Dato' Seri Ir Hj. Mohammad Nizar Bin Jamaluddin v. Dato' Dr. Zambry Bin Abd. Kadir

The case was brought by Menteri Besar of Perak state, Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, against Zambry Abdul Kadir, who acted as Menteri Besar after three members of the state legislative assembly defected from Nizar's Pakatan Rakyat and threw their support behind Zambry's Barisan Nasional coalition.

SMK Subang Utama

In June 2008, SMKSU came under the spotlight when the school board member decide to take action if the organisers of the school's annual ex-prefects reunion invite the Pakatan Rakyat Assemblyman for Subang Jaya, Hannah Yeoh.

Tan Tee Beng

His resignation from Keadilan followed the instigation of disciplinary action against him by the party after he criticised Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng from the party's Pakatan Rakyat coalition partner the Democratic Action Party.

Wong Ho Leng

He is currently the Member of Parliament of Sibu and Member of the State Legislative Assembly of Sarawak for the seat of Bukit Assek and is the opposition leader of the assembly, being the state chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) in the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition.


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Mohamamad Fatmi Che Salleh

Previously the post was held by the notorious ex-UMNO De facto Law Minister and also ex-Pakatan Rakyat member, Datuk Seri Zaid Ibrahim.

Nasarudin Hashim

Joined by three other Pakatan Rakyat MPs, the defection gave the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional coalition the numbers to return to government.

Sarawak state election, 2011

Prime minister Najib Razak celebrated the victory as an indication that BN's support in Sarawak was still strong and noted that Pakatan Rakyat had failed to make major inroads into the state.