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‘We Have Done It In Mexico, We Have Done It In Malaysia’Įarlier this week an undercover recording released by the UK’s Channel 4 News revealed SCL Director and Cambridge Analytica CEO, Alexander Nix boasting about his company’s dirty tactics, including entrapments by call girls and video’d ‘corruption stings’. Lord Marland is generally recognised as Najib’s cheerleader in Whitehall and has been behind several image boosting, quasi-official events designed to bolster the disgraced Malaysian leader. The material not only reveals a worrying political bias on the part of Malaysia’s supposedly independent state petroleum company, effectively willing to offer financial support to BN’s election campaign, but it also provides disturbing evidence of a commercial background to blatant political advocacy that has been provided on behalf Prime Minister Najib Razak by prominent political figures in Britain since the outbreak of the scandal over 1MDB.
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#Sarawak election 2016 series
Sarawak Report has studied the extensive documentation, including a series of pitches made to Petronas in 2014, detailing a $2 million project that was plainly directed at ensuring voters turned out for BN at the key up-coming Sarawak election.
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That campaign is in keeping with the company’s separate boasts, recorded by Channel 4 News, of having performed secretive operations in Malaysia to sway elections.Ĭonflation of interests? – how SCL spelt out their covert approach to boosting BN via the proposed Petronas contract These include a $2 million (RM10) project proposal to be funded by Petronas, which specifically set out to covertly identify and influence target voters into supporting BN and rejecting PKR. However, Sarawak Report has viewed considerable evidence, which shows that SCL has been involved far more extensively in Malaysia’s elections, working covertly behind the scenes to boost BN’s chances also in the Sarawak state elections of 2016. Indeed, a former media advisor to Mukhriz Mahathir, who is now the SCL representative in KL, has waded in to confirm that company has indeed boasted that it assisted BN’s win during the Kedah state election, something Mukhriz denies knowledge of. The denial has been interpreted as an attempt to distance BN fron SCL/Cambridge Analytica, whilst tarnishing the opposition leader Dr Mahathir by saying his son did employ the company. SCL’s Malaysia boss, Azrin Zizal, used to work with Mukhriz “However, the SCL Group country representative today confirmed to the Government that Cambridge Analytica’s advice on the 2013 general election was provided personally to (Datuk Seri) Mukhriz Mahathir, PPBM deputy president.” “Contrary to media reports, neither Cambridge Analytica nor its parent company SCL Group has ever – now or in the past – been contracted, employed or paid in any way by Barisan Nasional, the Prime Minister’s Office or any part of the Government of Malaysia. “This paper describes a Social Intelligence project that was initially conceptualized and crystalised through a series of discussions and meetings by representatives from SGM’s Office and Transformation Office of GSC.”Īs the scandal over the covert political consultancy and election agency Cambridge Analytica, also known as SCL (Strategic Communications Laboratories Ltd) engulfs clients across the globe, the Malaysian BN Government has issued a total denial that it ever engaged with the company: The election turnout as of 4pm was 55 per cent, said the EC.SCL position paper 2014 – no Malaysian Government involvement with SCL? Its four component parties - Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) - were part of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, but left BN to form GPS after BN’s defeat in the last general election.īN had always held at least a two-thirds majority in the Sarawak state assembly. This was the first time that GPS contested in an election under this name and its own logo.
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Opposition party Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) won four seats while the Democratic Action Party (DAP) won two seats, according to the Election Commission (EC).Īs of midnight, the result of one seat has yet to be announced.Ī total of 349 candidates had contested the election that was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. KUCHING: The Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition coasted to a landslide victory in Sarawak’s 12th state election on Saturday (Dec 18), winning 75 of 82 seats in the state legislature.