AMPANG, Nov 16 Fifteen years and three political parties later, so-called Ibu Bangsa Malaysia Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin still resonates with her Ampang constituents, a factor.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 Gerakan Tanah Air (GTA) has to win the 15th general election (GE15) before naming its prime ministerial candidate. GTA pro-tem chairman Tun Dr Mahathir.
Women make up more than half of Malaysia’s registered voters, but in the last general election less than 11 per cent of state assembly candidates were female, meaning women’s issues are often neglected.
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Malaysian politics has been saturated by men for far too long, with wily veterans and the likes of two-time prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and his foe Anwar Ibrahim regularly taking centre stage in local and global discourse. But a number of prominent women have been shaking up the country's political scene for decades, from top party figures like Nurul Izzah.