2013 Malaysian general election
General elections were held in Malaysia on Sunday, 5 May 2013. Voting took place in all 222 parliamentary constituencies, each electing one MP to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 505 state constituencies in 12 of the 13 states on the same day. The elections were the first since Najib Razak became Prime Minister in 2009.
Image: Dato Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak (9to 12)
Image: Anwar Ibrahim (8730532535) (3to 4 1)
BN chairman Najib Razak and other leaders launching the coalition's 2013 election manifesto ahead of upcoming polls during a rally at Bukit Jalil Stadium.
A PAS supporter at a rally calling for the removal of unfair government policies at the Himpunan Kebangkitan Rakyat, January 2013.
Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is a Malaysian politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018. In 2020, he was convicted of corruption in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, one of the largest money-laundering and embezzlement scandals in history. He is the son of former prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein. Najib Razak was the chairman of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from April 2009 to May 2018 and the president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) from November 2008 to May 2018, which had maintained control of Malaysia's government with a parliamentary majority for more than sixty years until the coalition's defeat in the 2018 general election.
Official portrait, 2009
Najib at an UMNO General Assembly
Najib, pictured in May 2002.
Najib and his wife Rosmah waving flags during the Malaysia Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur, 16 September 2011
