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Freemalaysiatodays Top Newsmaker of the Year 2011 is

December 30, 2011

Dato S. Ambiga of BERSIH2.0

BERSIH2.0 hero S. Ambiga was declared FMT's tip newsmaker of a year after a little 57% of its readers voted for her, drubbing some-more prominent total similar to Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim as well as Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

This comes as no surprise, since a volume of headlines Ambiga, a former boss of a Malaysian Bar Council, had amassed via a year.The year 2011 showered on Ambiga both positive as well as negative coverage, much of it due to her involvement in multiform rocking controversial events.

What does come as a surprise is which Shahrizat Abdul Jalil was subsequent in line notwithstanding barely creation a headlines, during least up until a RM250-million National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) liaison pennyless out last month.

The Women's Affair, Family as well as Community Development Minister is now confronting growing calls to give up her post from her own UMNO party members who perspective her as a liability.

The "attention" since to Shahrizat, who is Wanita UMNO chief, by FMT readers maybe reflects a weight of a liaison as well as a intensity repairs it might do to a statute bloc in a arriving national polls.

Shahrizat received 534 votes or a 9% rating subsequent to Ambiga, similar to a percentage received by Anwar who came in third in a chart after gaining 5 votes lesser.

Meanwhile, Najib was two points behind his wife Rosmah Mansor. Rosmah came in fourth with 416 votes or a 7% rating.

Rosmah, who is well known for her adore of oppulance goods, done multiform headlines for allegedly owning "blings" or diamond ring as well as a bangle worth some-more than ! RM70 mil lion. She has, however, denied these allegations.

Taib of Sarawak in sixth spot

Rosmah additionally came underneath glow when she was accused of regulating taxpayers' income to boat items she bought on a selling debauch during a upmarket area of London. This, too, she has denied.

Below her during fifth spot is Auditor-General Ambrin Buang with 281 votes or a 5% rating.

Just as in a past years, Ambrin repelled as well as infuriated Malaysians with disclosures of a government's financial "mess".

Next during sixth spot is a scandalous Pehin Sri Taib Mahmud, Sarawak's as well as a world's longest-serving Chief Minister, whose purported crime has done tellurian news as well as compelled an international investigation in his business as well as resources abroad. Locally, too, there has been increased calls for a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate him.

AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes was subsequent in line, after Najib, during seventh, with 129 votes or a 2% rating.He surprisingly gained some-more votes than firebrand Ibrahim Ali, a arch of a Malay worried organisation PERKASA.

Ibrahim has been in a news via 2011, creation some-more headlines for his racism which have upset a country's minorities.

Fernandes additionally scored better than "Datuk T", a trio comprising former Malacca Chief Minister Rahim Tamby Chik, businessman Eskay Shahril as well as former PERKASA treasurer Shuaib Lazim.The three done headlines after they claimed to have a video of Anwar having sex with a Chinese woman believed to be a sex worker.

The PKR leader denied he was a said man as well as purported which a video was an UMNO swindling to fall short his image.