Ruling Party in Sabah Ousted After 9 Years
Voters in the east Malaysian state of Sabah turned Chief Minister Harris Salleh and his government out of office Sunday.
Harris’ Berjaya party has ruled the timber-producing state of 1 million people on the north shore of the Indonesian island of Borneo for the last nine years. On Sunday, though, it won only three of 32 state assembly seats for which results have been announced. In the last state election in 1981, the party captured 44 of 48 assembly seats.
Harris, who lost his own seat, called the election more than a year ahead of schedule because of growing opposition from Kadazans, an indigenous non-Malay tribe.
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