Malaysia Elections

  • Joint media release

We warmly congratulate the people of Malaysia onpeacefully and respectfully exercising their democratic right to vote on 9 May. Australia strongly supports the rights of citizens in any country tochoose their leaders openly and freely protected by the rule of law.

We congratulate Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad on his appointment as Prime Minister ofMalaysia, and the Pakatan Harapan coalition for their historic electionvictory.

Australia and Malaysia have a rich, broad and deep contemporary relationship, fullof potential, and underpinned by shared interests and values. Our economic,defence, security and people-to-people links are strong and growing.

The Australian Government looks forward to continuing to work with Malaysia tofurther strengthen the partnership and friendship between our two countries andpeoples.

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