Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

My article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 8/6/2014 Gerakan president Datuk Mah Siew Keong has wrested the seat back for the Barisan Nasional in the recently concluded Teluk Intan parliamentary by-election. However, the Gerakan chief only obtained 20,157 votes while the Pakatan Rakyat candidate, DAP’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, got 19,919 votes. Mah won with a majority of 238 votes. This is a very close call for BN and Gerakan in their fight against DAP who twice defeated BN in the 2008 and 2013 general elections. Never mind the outcome. Both sides, whether the winner or loser, ought to be mindful of the voters and people’s expectations. As everyone is aware, only some 67 per cent of the total 60,349 registered voters turned up. So, where were the other 19,000-plus voters? Even the number of spoilt votes was unexpectedly high, at about 550. Many political observers are also surprised by results that favoured BN. Let us analyse the strategy of DAP. Why was Dyana Sofya fielded i...

When the Opposition front decides to endorse parliamentary opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to contest in the Kajang state constituency, MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong was quick to mock that why should a great leader like Anwar contest in that so-called "satay" town. So, looks like MCA and its party deputy president has indirectly insulted the people of Kajang by mocking that the said great leader (Anwar) should not contest in that town in the next coming by election. Apart from that, Wee had also failed to give any affirmative on whether MCA would fill its "great" leader or candidate to contest against Anwar's candidacy. Is MCA or Wee afraid of realizing their candidate for this "traditional" seat of theirs? To-date, MCA and its leaders are still speaking politically like a coward. If they were to really want to put their candidate in that state constituency to fight PKR and Anwar at all cost, we will also ask, what for? Knowing that the peop...

According to the Bukit Gelugor MP and DAP National Chairman, Karpal Singh, elected MPs or state assemblymen (ADUNs) cannout go against the wishes of the people. We support the stand made by Karpal and we hope that the other leaders of DAP and the other two Pakatan component parties, PKR and PAS would also state their stand against party-hopping. It is not only happening from the Pakatan side (who switched camp and joined BN), but it is also happening at the BN side (switching their support to Pakatan). And all these situation has its reasons behind. But we don't care whether it is because they were being bought over (with money) or it is because of their "principle" that they are believing in. What we all knew is that these MPs and state assemblymen were elected by the people in the general elections who voted and supported the political parties of their choice and not by the individual persons named. And those MPs and state assemblymen were elected on their respec...

In aftermath of the 12th general election, we had saw so many by-elections going on following death of many elected parliamentarians and state assemblymen. Elections after elections, all the events were dominated by the Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition because the government machinery is controlled by them. The traditional mainstream medias, such as information offices, TV stations, newspapers and radio stations are fully mobilized to attack the opposition coalition at all times. Very often these BN leaders used government-owned transportation and services to channel their electoral campaign messages to the people, at the same time totally denying opposition leaders the right to use them, despite their pledge to do so. Aside this, the BN leaders too have another advantage, the Election Commission (EC) which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department. Under the prime minister who is also the Umno president and BN chairman, the federal ruling coalition had m...

The Barisan Nasional will uphold its campaign pledges to the Sibu electorate despite losing the seat by 398 votes, Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today. The deputy prime minister’s promise went against the prime minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s earlier statement that BN would rethink its campaign pledges to Sibu, including RM5 million to alleviate flood woes in the Chinese-dominated Rajang Park suburb. DAP state chairman Wong Ho Leng wrested the Sibu seat at his fourth attempt, breaking the ruling coalition’s decades-long hold on the timber town. Despite pumping in nearly RM20 million into the Sibu by-election by giving RM15 million to schools and RM1.75 million to four Methodist churches, the ruling coalition lost its stronghold to the DAP. The answer is very simple, because you only bring in the cash when there is an election. And when you lost the election, you want to avenge the defeat by withdrawing your pledge to the people reason...

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...

Not satisfying of the outcome that had clearly shown that the DAP is in fact the winner of the Sibu parliamentary by-election, the BN leaders, particularly from the Umno, PBB and SUPP are putting their pressure onto the Election Commission (EC) officials to ensure their victory at all cost. The BN wants by hook or by crook to win this by-election. The postal votes counting had been recount on and on and its results were purposely delayed up to more than an hour now. Meanwhile, all top DAP leaders are waiting at Wisma Sanyan, where the postal ballots were counted. Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng told the press that he is worried “something suspicious could be going on” and he hopes that the EC officials can release the Form 15, a document which certifies the final result of the postal ballots. At the same time DAP Advisor Lim Kit Siang also questioned the long EC hold-up of the postal ballot results.

Every member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) and the machinery for the Sibu parliamentary by-election must be committed and inspired to ensure victory for the BN on polling day on May 16, said Datuk Seri Najib Razak. With this, it will ensure that every leaders of the Sarawak BN will have an absolute control over the timber concessions in the state. As the result, the state's natural resources will soon be wiped out by all these greedy Sarawak BN leaders, particularly those from PBB, SUPP, PRS and SPDP as well as Umno who were the ones pulling the strings of the alleged BN's "multiracial puppet shows". This means, the Bumiptras in Sarawak, particularly the majority tribes of Dayaks and Ibans will be continue to be exploited and misplaced. They had no where to go and no one to turn to. The Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) has been destroyed by the PBB engineered factional fightings, SNAP is still in limbo following the de-registration by the ROS and subsequent court ap...

Before we start off with it, we want to repeat our question which we had been asking before, on and on. Why is BN always resorting to barbaric type of banners to campaign, expressing their hate towards others and depicting other races as low class? What is so great about BN and Umno anyway? A campaign banner that stood out from the BN and Umno entourage to the nomination centre for the Hulu Selangor by-election here yesterday was one that depicted top leaders of PKR as pigs. This particular banner attracted the attention of many not only because it was so unconventional, it was also because the big pictorial banner was being hoisted at the forefront of the procession by the BN group, led by none other than the UMNO Youth leaders. In the BN coalition, all the Umno leaders used to repeatedly view themselves as a coalition of multiracial political parties aiming at achieving "national unity and equality" but what are shown and demonstrated so recently does not even prove that th...

Yes, it has been clearly shown. In the BN coalition of which MIC is a component party, the later cannot even decide on its own candidate to contest in the upcoming by-election in the Hulu Selangor parliamentary constituency. When MIC proposed its deputy president G.Palanivel to contest the parliamentary seat, Umno said no to Samy Vellu and insisted that MIC deputy youth chief V.Mugilan should contest. But Mugilan who is not aligned to the Samy Vellu's faction. Then Umno strongly demanded that Palanivel should not be allowed to contest at all cost as he is not Umno's favorite. Umno summoned Samy Vellu to their headquarters and demanded that Samy accept another MIC man of their choice, this time is P.Kamalanathan. In order to prolong his political survival, Samy has no choice but to bow to Umno's pressure by accepting Kamalanathan as the BN candidate. Did you all know that on the nomination day held yesterday, BN candidate P.Kamalanathan was stationed in the Umno Hulu Selango...

The BN and Umno leaders had came up with a compromise with the MIC president recently that its party deputy president Datuk G. Palanivel would be offered a senatorship (member of the Dewan Negara) to compensate the later for not being selected to contest in the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-elections. A source from inside MIC had also informed that Datuk Palanivel will also be given a deputy ministerial post in order not to offend his supporters in Hulu Selangor into voting for PKR as a protest. It shows that even though Palanivel is the MIC deputy president, he is no more relevant in the party itself and in the eyes of the BN and Umno as well. The looked at him as a burden, risky and may also jeopardize the BN's chances of winning an election. It is also certain that Palanivel will also not be allowed to contest in the next general election. Palanivel is not considered an asset to the BN coalition anymore as he is now viewed more like a stumbling block instead. So, is Palanivel g...

Signs of crack within the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition is very clear now, as the Umno Hulu Selangor division had threatened to boycott the by-election campaign should the BN leadership decides to put MIC deputy president Datuk G.Palanivel to contest in the said parliamentary constituency. The Umno division in that area had earlier insisted that its candidate should be chosen to contest in that parliamentary constituency based on the racial composition there. The current racial composition of the Hulu Selangor parliamentary constituency are 53.9% Malays, with Chinese at 26.7%, while the Indians stands at 19% and others 0.4%. According to the Umno division deputy chairman Adnan Buyong it is time that the should be given the opportunity to contest since MIC had lost the area in the last general election. MIC, looks like your deputy president is being bullied by an Umno division deputy chairman who is much more supreme. Umno is supreme, dominant and they expect all BN component parties ...

Looks like the Mahathir factor continue to oppose Najib’s choice of leadership in the Kedah Umno’s current factional tussle. The current chairman of the Kedah Umno state liaison committee is a Sabahan named Datuk Shafie Apdal who replaced Kedah former menteri besar Datuk Mahazhir Khalid who was dropped from the line-up after Umno’s defeat in Kedah at the last general elections. Being the head of the state liaison committee of Kedah Umno which is totally unknown to him, it is tough for Datuk Shafie to consolidate his power over the state giving the fact that he is an outsider and furthermore a Borneo Malay (from Sabah), not a peninsular Malay. Besides, Datuk Shafie is also perceived as a weak leader because of his ignorance in the way Kedah Umno politics are being run. In fact, the majority of the Kedah Umno division chairmen and some powerful party warlords in the state doesn’t not seem in wanting to give due respect to Datuk Shafie as the state liaison chief. That means, he is not in ...

Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) loss in the Bagan Pinang by-election was a rude wake-up call for the coalition, indicating that it could not be overconfident of its popularity among Malaysians. The fact that the PR leaders had overlooked their internal conflicts which were openly debated where it has been mistakenly seen by voters and the public as PR is having an internal problem and busy politicking, thus ignoring the people. Besides, the public and voters' misconception on the PR's internal bickering, the BN-Umno also tend to take advantage on the situation by manipulating it to be seen as PR's internal crisis. The people of today after about 52 years being ruled by BN still cannot understand the meaning of a real democracy in practical. Therefore, the PR leadership should double its effort in promoting its democratic awareness, freedom of speech, the concept of self criticism, equality, etc to the people. The PR component parties must also continue to strive for a single and comm...

See, in the current Permatang Pasir state seat by-election, Umno is looking desparate and is now resorting to racist tactics in order to incite hatred amongst our harmonious communities in Malaysia. Umno does not act like a gentleman. It claimed that the Barisan Nasional (BN) is always the best choice, but it does not act like one actually. BN is actually a coalition of race-based political parties like Umno, MCA and MIC, then in Sarawak PBB, SPDP, SUPP while in Sabah is also Umno, MCA, MIC and of course PBS, UPKO, PRS who are merely powerless "yes" men in the state coalition. Each of the race-based political parties in the BN only champions the respective communities which they claimed to represent. But in actual fact it is the supremacist Umno who dominates the entire BN machinery. Gerakan, who is also a member of the BN coalition often mention that they champion multi-racial concept in the BN and Bangsa Malaysia but they are unable to practically move their ideology into ...