Malaysia's opposition said on Saturday it has won a critical
by-election seen as a test of the coalition government's popularity
after disastrous national polls last year.
The official tally showed that with only a few hundred votes left
to be counted, the opposition candidate had a lead of 2,424 votes
with 32,393 ballots, against 29,969 for the Barisan Nasional
coalition.
"Yes we have won," said Husam Musa, vice-president of the Islamic
party PAS, which fielded the candidate on behalf of the three-party
opposition alliance.
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