The Sarawak BN's lost in the Sibu parliamentary by-election is seen as a grieve setback to its component and participating party, the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP). Until then, the leaders of SUPP had refused to concede defeat even at the final hour before the announcement of the results were out last night. Well the announcement has been made anyway and it said DAP had won and BN lost. The BN and SUPP leaders were disappointed, the deputy prime minister dumped the BN candidate Robert Lau and flew back to Putrajaya even before the results were known, because he already knew, the vote had already swing in favour of DAP. However, the BN leaders are still in a denial mode. They refused to accept the fact that their defeat shows that they are no longer "powerful" in Sarawak after decades of manipulation of the people's human rights there. The BN leaders in Sarawak denied that they had lost their ground, but instead blamed DAP and Pakatan Rakyat because they exp...
When ticking off Utusan Malaysia and its particular writer for the racist article that was published in their newspaper recently, deputy premier Muhyiddin Yassin said that he was not taking sides and added that Utusan had also done a "great job". It looks like Muhyiddin is being insincere in telling Utusan that they are a kind of wrong in promoting the racist article. He said that he did not take side but in fact with his later statement shows that he did sided with Utusan by mentioning that they had done a "great job" which means they were not actually "very wrong" on it. In this case, Utusan Malaysia will not take Muhyiddin's heed seriously and they will continue to be a racist publication just like their owner and shareholder, Umno. They will never change because they too resist change right from the beginning.
The Penang state government seems to have taken a brave effort to restore the local government elections in the state by enacting a state law to allow the third vote to take place. If the enactment comes through, we will see both Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) and Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) holding their elections soon to elect their municipal councillors. The enactment bill called the Local Government Elections (Penang & Province Wellesley) Enactment Bill 2012 is expected to be tabled soon next week at the ongoing state legislative assembly sitting. With the bill, Penang will become the first state in this country, historically to have a law of its own to restore the local government elections. However, it is not clear that if the other Pakatan states like Selangor, Kedah and Kelantan would follow Penang's effort in doing so. Previously, it was only Penang and Selangor who had made known to public of its efforts to restore the third vote for the people. With...