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- Pakatan Rakyat or PR was established on April 1, 2008. The political coalition comprises a group of Malaysian political parties, namely, the People's Justice Party (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DAP), and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), who collectively worked together as the Barisan Rakyat (or People's Front) during the 12th Malaysian general election in 2008. In the 10th General Election, they composed the Barisan Alternatif to defeat Barisan Nasional. After failing to do so, the component parties broke up and formed a coalition again after the major turned out votes against the Barisan Nasional. Each political party in People's Alliance has its own ideology; PKR promotes its ideals that revolves around social justice and anti-corruption themes, PAS with its aim to establish Malaysia as a nation based on Islamic legal theory and DAP with its secular, multi-racial, social democratic ideals. Pakatan Rakyat is to be collectively led and managed, by all three parties and it pledges to uphold the rights and interests of all Malaysians. With the establishment of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, State Governments of Kelantan, Kedah, Penang,and Selangor are known as the Pakatan Rakyat state governments. The government of Perak is under the Barisan Nasional after the coup de etat in February 2009 following the ongoing constitutional wrangle.
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- Pakatan Rakyat or PR was established on April 1, 2008. The political coalition comprises a group of Malaysian political parties, namely, the People's Justice Party (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DAP), and Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), who collectively worked together as the Barisan Rakyat (or People's Front) during the 12th Malaysian general election in 2008. In the 10th General Election, they composed the Barisan Alternatif to defeat Barisan Nasional.
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