KUALA LUMPUR March 22 Kyodo A gi...

KUALA LUMPUR March 22 Kyodo

A give an account of Monday showed Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's ruling National head (BN) coalition failed to win back the Kelantan state assembly in Sunday's election, however the BN still put a very great dent in Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party's (PAS) hold

With individual more left to be relateed PAS had 24 out of the 45 seats in the state assembly.

The state consecrated by a vow was held simultaneously with the parliamentary election Sunday.

The National brass which had only two seats in Kelantan before the election, now will have at least 20

The BN won assembly majorities in the 10 state assemblies it controll before the voting and in Terengganu, held by the agency of PAS until Sunday, it won back the have charge of it lost in the previous election.

Nationally, the BN buried the fundamentalist PAS, winning 196 of the 219 seats in the House of Representatives and wiping Keadilin, the opposition party l by way of sacked Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, against the political map.

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