Mr Anwar said the opposition would contest the result of the "stolen" election as the polls were tainted by fraud.
Malaysia's ruling National Front coalition was officially declared the winner of the election, extending its 56-year hold on power, but with fewer seats than in 2008, officials said today.
The National Front won 133 parliamentary seats, seven fewer than previously, while the opposition People's Alliance won 89 seats, the final tally by the elections commission showed.
Mr Anwar said today his Malaysian opposition planned to contest the results of the bitter weekend election battle and that the 56-year-old ruling bloc had "lost its legitimacy".
"I today maintain we won the elections. The Election Commission is complicit in the crime of stealing the election from Malaysians," Mr Anwar told AFP in an interview.
"The government has lost its legitimacy."
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Prime Minister Najib Razak says he isn't concerned about violent street demonstrations if the opposition and election reform groups' repudiate the government's relatively narrow win.
"No, I think we can manage it and the most important thing is that we have to show the world we are a mature democracy," Mr Najib said this morning after the Barisan Nasional coalition win was confirmed by the Election Commission.
Earlier Mr Anwar, who warned repeatedly against election fraud during the campaign, said the Pakatan Rakyat alliance wouldn't accept the result "until the EC responds and issues an official statement to the allegations of irregularities and fraud".
Civil society groups, notably the Bersih coalition for free and fair elections, are likely to back Mr Anwar's demand today.
The campaign and yesterday's voting, was roiled by allegations of fraud organised by BN parties - "phantom voting", falsely registered voters and even foreign migrant workers voting - in their struggle to avoid an unprecedented loss .
Mr Najib's United Malays National Organisation, at the head of BN, has never been out of government in the 55 years since Malaysian independence.
However, yesterday's result, although closer than ever before in Malaysia was still relatively comfortable.
That could either deflate an emotional opposition response to losing a contest Mr Anwar said it had every cause to expect to win or inflame anger at the perceived scale of election fixing.
The answer to that critical question is likely to emerge in the next 48 hours as the opposition and civil society groups grapple with how to respond to a result far below their expectations.
Beforehand, the opposition expected to get at least within 15 seats and most independent analysts and pollsters said that was realistic.
But the expected knife-edge result did not eventuate last night.
Mr Najib's coalition will return to the parliament with three fewer of its cabinet ministers and down a couple of deputy ministers but not much worse off in total numbers than after its shock bad result in 2008.
That year, when the government lost the two-thirds majority that allows it to change the constitution at will, BN secured 140 seats and the opposition parties a then-record 82.
That election was widely seen foreshadowing the end of 55 years of UMNO dominance and the 2013 poll, delayed by Mr Najib until almost the last possible date, the tipping point.
But as counting and recounting continued this morning in the closest districts, it appears PR has gained fewer than 10 seats
Yesterday's result seems to have been driven by a combination of two factors - the worsening alienation of Chinese Malaysian voters, which was expected, and a strong swing back to UMNO by Malay voters, which wasn't so anticipated.
However, despite a better win than most reasonable commentators thought likely for BN and UMNO Mr Najib was very downbeat in responding.
Asked about the swing against BN, though moderate as it turned out, the PM said: "None of us expected to this extent, but despite the extent of the swing against us, Barisan Nasional did not fall."
More to the point, Mr Najib said the government had suffered a "Chinese tsunami" in parts of the country and the government would have to address "sentiments, some of them racial in nature" that risked the social fabic.
For the opposition, a pressing issue now is that the Chinese dominated Democratic Action Party was by far the most effective RP party at yesterday's election and now is the largest non-government party.
That's a particular problem for what is now the smallest of the three alliance parties, the Islamist PAS, which comprehensively failed to make the gains among Malay voters generally expected of it.
Relations between PAS and DAP are generally tense because the Islamists want hudud religious law universally applied in Malaysia, although the party's leaders have soft-pedalled the issue since the alliance formed in 2008.
The DAP attitude to that, also soft-pedalled but frankly expressed by one senior member, is "over my dead body".
The further problem for the opposition is that the weekend election probably signals the retirement of 65-year-old Mr Anwar.
His Parti Keadilan Rakyat has a number of bright and attractive new generation MPs, but none is stand-out prospect to replace him and, now that PKR is only No. 2 in the alliance, probably not going to succeed him as opposition leader.
Additional reporting: AFP
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