-- courtesy to nstonline
KUALA LUMPUR, Sat:
The Election Commission declared Barisan Nasional as winner of Saturday’s parliamentary general election, having garnered 127 seats as at 1.30am. According to EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, this is 15 seats more than the simple majority of 112. BN now needs another 21 seats to retain its two-thirds majority in Parliament.
Abdul Rashid, when making the announcement at 2am, said the victory declaration was based on the fact that the coalition has accumulated more than 50 percent of the parliamentary seats.
The EC later announced at 2.10 am that Pas has retained control of the Kelantan state government with a simple majority in the State Assembly after taking 23 of the 45 state seats.
In a Press conference at 3am, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he will seek an audience with the King later today to seek consent to form a new BN Federal Government.
Surrounded by BN leaders including his deputy datuk Seri Najib Razak and wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah, he said he will make a media statement after that that would analysed the election results in detail.
When asked about the BN defeats in five states, he said: "We've lost, we've lost."
Despite clamour from reporters for more questions, Abdullah stood up and left the conference room, to the barrage of photographers' flashlights.
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