Malaysia's opposition and the "traditional" Malay

March 2008 election is a major milestone for the Malaysian opposition political party, especially since achieved 36.5 percent of seats in parliament and win five of the 13 countries. A performance of the highest ever achieved opposition in this country.

In another formula, for the first time, opposition appear as a significant political force after reaching 81 of 222 parliament seats. Parliament, which is now just a rubber stamp scrapper becomes compete arguments and debate between those who agree and rejected the government's policy.

In contrast to UMNO, the party group, which filed with koalisinya five decades, the election is an event in March and the worst they had experienced. In addition to failing to maintain a two-thirds majority of parliament seats, the coalition also failed to maintain the four states.

This is more disappointing koalisinya UMNO and the Barisan Nasional, some caleg the diunggulkan and some political party leaders failed to reach the seat parliament. In fact, failed to attract voters in the base-base supporters.

In the area of federal (Kuala Lumpur), for example, a lot of people, a coalition of three opposition political party-sweeps 11 of 12 parliamentary seats in the election last March. Barisan Nasional only achieved one seat. In Penang Island, the majority ethnic Chinese population, Barisan Nasional only reach two of 13 parliamentary seats. A lot of people that formed before the new election to reach 11 seats.