Unprecedented people power protests seeking ouster of Malaysian PM Najib Razak enter second day | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Kuala Lumpur (dpa) – Tens of thousands of Malaysian protesters vowed Saturday to hold their ground in the streets of central Kuala Lumpur to step up pressure on Prime Minister Najib Razak to resign over alleged corruption. The protesters, ignoring both a ban on the public rally and a government order prohibiting people from wearing yellow…

Thousands of demonstrators have continued their protests in Kuala Lumpur for a second day to demand the resignation of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal. The crowd of yellow-clad protesters, who slept on the streets near the city’s Independence Square, woke on Sunday to mass exercises and a resumption of the previous day’s…

A group of protesters are camping overnight in central Kuala Lumpur to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has weathered public outrage over a multimillion dollar payment made to a bank account under his name. Earlier on Saturday, over 50,000 protesters, dressed in yellow T-shirts, had gathered at five designated areas in the…