Najib Claims People Who Say The BN Government Is Going To Fall Are Wrong

He also said that Malaysia is still a democracy and not a dictatorship.

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While responding to a scathing criticism from Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who had remarked that Malaysia was heading towards a dictatorship like North Korea after the BN Government blocked access to news portal The Malaysian Insider, PM Najib once again insisted that his administration is not a dictatorship

Najib Razak arriving to a joint police-army training exercise at a shopping mall in KL earlier on 22 February.

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Najib also denied claims that the government will collapse

Najib, as head of the ruling party, who has sidelined party members raising questions about the scandal at the 1MDB, highlighted the country's continued high credit ratings from international financial bodies as proof his administration was running Malaysia well

An undated photo of PM Najib Razak.

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On the other hand, as Malaysiakini describes, in an "online display of civil disobedience", PM Najib's Facebook page was flooded with angry "emojis" as social media users went on a rampage

Meanwhile, UMNO has suspended its Deputy President Muhyiddin Yassin, citing his failure to support the party president, Najib Razak:

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