Saturday, December 29, 2012

Ambiga Sreenevasan is Malaysiakini’s Newsmaker of the Year


Ambiga Sreenevasan is Malaysiakini’s Newsmaker of the Year

Every year, for over a decade, Malaysiakini has named a top newsmaker as we bring the curtain down on the year.
AmbigaA newsmaker is defined as ‘someone whose actions make news headlines, who effects the course of public discourse and creates an impact in Malaysian politics, for better or worse’. For 2012, Malaysiakini has nominated 10 individuals for readers to vote on. A total of 697 participated in the five-day survey, opened only to paying subscribers of the news portal.
They voted by indicating their preference for each of the nominees – one vote being the lowest and 10 the highest. Interestingly this time around, Malaysiakini readers paid tribute to the individual who missed out on the newsmaker of the year award last year.
The award goes to…
And the newsmaker of 2011 is former Bar Council chairperson and BERSIH co-coordinator Ambiga Sreenevasan – the woman who launched the mother of all protests.
Perhaps this did not come as a surprise as yesterday, Malaysiakini readers picked the Bersih 3.0 rally as the top news of 2012. PKR Director of Strategy Rafizi Ramli aka ‘cow slayer’ came in second, followed closely by Himpunan Hijau leader Wong Tack.
The following are the full results:
NONE1. S Ambiga – Senior lawyer and Bersih co-coordinator
6,438 votes
NONE2. Rafizi Ramli - PKR Director of Strategy
5,480 votes
NONE3. Wong Tack - Leader of Himpunan Hijau
5,435 votes
NONE4. Dataran Merdeka – the hallowed ground for all Malaysians
5,194 votes
NONE5. A Samad Said – National Laureate and BERSIH co-coordinator
4,993 votes
NONE6. Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and family - Wanita UMNO chief, her husband and three children
4,037 votes
NONE7. Rosmah Mansor - PM Najib Abdul Razak’s wife
3,615 votes

NONE8. Nazri Abdul Aziz - Minister in the PM’s Department
2,416 votes
NONE9. Mahathir Mohamad – former Prime Minister
2,206 votes
NONE10. Chua Tee Yong – Labis MP and MCA Young Professionals Bureau chief
1,676 votes
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