KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah now holds 34 of 60 state seats, and will be informing the Istana Negeri of this recent development.

Five assemblymen - Datuk Abdul Muis Picho (Sebatik), Datuk Hamisah Samat (Tanjong Batu), Ewon Benedick (Kadamaian), Datuk Abidin Madingkir (Paginatan) and Datuk Bobbey Suan (Nabawan) - have followed Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal (file pic) to inform the head of state about the majority at around 3pm.

The development came after Sabah Barisan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Musa Aman got himself sworn in as Chief Minister at 11.15pm Thursday.

According to legal sources, Shafie will have to ask Musa to resign as Chief Minister before he can make a bid for the Chief Minister post.

The sources said if Musa refuses to resign, the State Assembly hasSurging Greens shake up German coalition politics By Jenny Hill

BBC News, Darmstadt, Germany Published duration 26 November 2018

image copyright Getty Images image caption The Greens' leaders hope to translate regional gains into national success

The talk in Darmstadt is of the "green wave".

One in three voters in this city near Frankfurt backed the Greens in the Hesse state election last month.

In the city centre, workmen are setting up a Christmas market in freezing drizzle.

There were workmen here just over three years ago too. Then, they were preparing for a street party: Darmstadt had turned out to welcome its refugees.

Since then, migration policy has redefined German politics. Angela Merkel's centrist coalition government has bickered, dithered and shifted to the right.

As a result, voters have walked away from her Christian Democrats