Country: | Malaysia |
Malaysian Nationalist Party | |
Native Name: | Parti Nasionalis Malaysia PNM / NASMA |
Abbreviation: | PNM or NASMA |
Founder: | Zainab Yang (Leader), Zainad Mohammed (Secretary General) |
Foundation: | July 1985 |
Legalised: | 1995 |
Headquarters: | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Membership Year: | 1990 |
Membership: | 79,990 |
Position: | Center-right |
Slogan: | Malaysians for Malaysia, for justice, intergrity and progress |
The Malaysian Nationalist Party or Malay: Parti Nasionalis Malaysia (PNM or NASMA) was a multi racial grouping launched in July 1985 under the banner "Malaysians for Malaysia, for justice, intergrity and progress". Envisioned by its founders as a forum for nonsectarian critics of the Mahathir Mohamad regime as a challenge to the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the party's main accomplishment by late 1985 was weakening Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) expansion effort.[1] [2]