The Islamic mufti and the Russian Orthodox archbishop regularly appear together publicly to promote religious and ethnic harmony.

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In order to do this more systematically than ever before, in 2009 Najib introduced the 1Malaysia concept, calling on his government to put even greater emphasis on ethnic harmony, national unity and efficient governance.

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The runner-up in the election was Harmony Centre, a centre-left party backed by most of the country's ethnic Russians, and also by ethnic Latvians fed up with the established parties.

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