The Malaysian opposition won a historic election victory, according to official results, reported AFP. Earlier, Malaysia's veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad, 92, said he was confident of victory as almost-complete results showed his opposition alliance with a strong lead in its fierce election battle against scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak. Votes were still being counted after the closely-fought poll and the Election Commission did not confirm Mahathir had won. But with 176 out of 222 parliament seats counted, Mahathir's opposition alliance, Pact of Hope had 89 seats while BN had 68, with smaller parties taking the others, the Election Commission announced. He said the opposition had achieved the number of seats needed to win the election.

Source: dna May 09, 2018 19:47 UTC