KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak took his oath of office as Prime Minister today, after receiving the mandate through the Barisan Nasional (BN) which won 133 parliamentary seats in the 13th general election (GE13) yesterday.
The appointment by the Yang diPertuan Agong, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah, enabled him to continue the transformation agenda as well as the pledges by his administration to give priority to the people.
But the big task for Najib, 59, as he had admitted as soon as the BN attained the simple majority of 112 seats and defeated the opposition coalition, was to promote national solidarity among the people.
This was because the GE13 saw a change in the political landscape especially when a section of the voters, particularly the Chinese community, had yet to fully accept the 1Malaysia concept.
Besides dominating the Parliament, BN also succeeded in winning back Kedah from PAS and stopped the parties making up the opposition pact from penetrating the BN strongholds.
-BERNAMA
