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Web Archive Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil (Bersih)

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Title

  • Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil (Bersih)

Summary

  • "The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Malay: Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil) or Bersih (meaning clean in Malay) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which seeks to reform the current electoral system in Malaysia to ensure free, clean and fair elections. It was officially formed on 23 November 2006 as a joint communiqué that comprised leaders from political parties, civil society groups and NGOs. Bersih accused the Election Commission under Prime Minister's Department for manipulating the electoral process to give an unfair advantage to the ruling National Front coalition. Bersih claimed that the electoral roll was marred by irregularities such as gerrymandering, phantom voters, malapportionment and postal vote frauds. On 10 November 2007, Bersih organised the first rally with 10,000 to 40,000 turnout and held a public demonstration at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. Supporters of Bersih were urged to wear yellow T-shirts as a symbol of protest. The rally was often credited for the shift in political landscape in 2008 general election, when the incumbent National Front coalition failed to obtain a two-thirds supermajority for the first time since 1969. In April 2010, the coalition was relaunched as an entirely civil society movement ('Bersih 2.0') unaffiliated to any political party. On 19 June 2011, former president of the Bar Council, Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan became the chairperson of the coalition. In 2011 and 2012, two more rallies (Bersih 2.0 and Bersih 3.0) were organised seeing that the demands for the electoral reforms have not been met by the Electoral Commission." -- Summary retrieved on October 7, 2019 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bersih

Created / Published

  • Malaysia.

Headings

  • -  Human Rights
  • -  Asian Studies
  • -  Political Science
  • -  Government

Genre

  • website

Form

  • electronic

Repository

  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

Source Url

  • http://bersih.org/
  • https://www.bersih.org/
  • https://bersih.org/

Access Condition

  • Access restricted to on-site users

Scopes

  • -  bersih.org (domain)
  • -  www.pemantau.org/ (domain)

Online Format

  • web page

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Chicago citation style:

Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil Bersih. Malaysia, 2012. Web Archive. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/lcwaN0006281/.

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(2012) Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil Bersih. Malaysia. [Web Archive] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/lcwaN0006281/.

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Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil Bersih. Malaysia, 2012. Web Archive. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/lcwaN0006281/>.