PRU 13 - Anwar nak bertanding di Perak, Ipoh Timur atau Bukit Gantang, dan Chua Sooi Lek akan letak jawatan kalau Ong Tee Keat bertanding...

Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mungkin bertanding kerusi Parlimen di Perak dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika disoal sama ada beliau akan mempertahankan kerusi Parlimen Permatang Pauh di Pulau Pinang.

"Ada yang mengatakan saya perlu pergi ke Perak atau Selangor tetapi saya berfikir mungkin di Perak. Namun tiada keputusan telah dibuat. Saya masih memikirkannya, "kata Anwar.

Walau bagaimanapun, Anwar menolak spekulasi bahawa beliau mungkin berpindah ke Lembah Pantai, di mana anak perempuannya Nurul Izzah  menjadi Ahli Parlimen kawasan tersebut.

"Biarkan dia tinggal di Lembah Pantai. Mengapa saya perlu mengganggu beliau? Raja Nong Chik Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar Menteri sudah cukup mengganggunya, "katanya, sambil ketawa kecil.

Awal minggu ini Penasihat DAP Lim Kit Siang telah diumumkan sebagai calon bagi kerusi Parlimen Gelang Patah di Johor, berpindah dari Ipoh Timur.

Anwar membuat pengumuman itu ketika berucap kepada lebih daripada 10,000  orang di padang berhampiran Sutera Mall, Skudai, ketika menyambut ulang tahun ke- 47 parti tersebut pada Isnin lalu.

Anwar menjadi wakil rakyat  Permatang Pauh MP sejak beliau berada dalam Umno sehingga dia dipecat daripada parti pada 1998 dan dipenjarakan atas tuduhan rasuah dan sodomi.

Walau bagaimanapun,  isterinya, Presiden PKR Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail telah memenangi kerusi tersebut dalam tiga pilihan raya umum sehingga dia melepaskan kerusi pada tahun 2008, untuk memberi laluan kepada Anwar.
 
Anwar telah memenangi kembali kerusi dengan lebih 15,000 majoriti undi dalam pilihan raya kecil.

Anwar juga mengumumkan bahawa Ketua PKR Sarawak Baru Bian akan bertanding bagi kerusi parlimen Limbang dalam PRU 13 nanti..

Beliau juga mengumumkan calon-calon lain; Ali Biju (Saratok), Roland Engan (Baram), Abun Sui (Hulu Rejang) dan Abang Zulkifli (Batang Lupar)

"Ini adalah calon2 yang kita telah putuskan buat masa sekarang. Kami akan mengumumkan calon-calon lain di kemudian hari, "kata Anwar.

Selain lima nama yang akan bertanding di Sarawak, turut diumumkan adalah kerusi Parlimen di Kulim Bandar Baru yang akan diisi oleh Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Parlimen Padang Serai akan diwakili oleh N Surendran, Parlimen Pandan Rafizi Ramli dan juga Fuziah Salleh yang akan mempertahankan kerusi di Parlimen Kuantan.

'Fareez tidak kakitangan saya'

Dalam perkembangan lain, Anwar berkata bahawa Mohd Fareez Kamal Intidzam tidak pernah bekerja sebagai kakitangan beliau.

"Saya sudah menjelaskan perkara ini. Beliau tidak pernah menjadi kakitangan saya, "katanya.

Pada 7 Mac, Fareez mengeluarkan surat kepada Presiden PAS Abdul Hadi Awang, mendakwa dia telah menjadi mangsa oleh Wan Azizah dan naib presiden Nurul Izzah Anwar kerana dia sering  dekat dengan Anwar.

Dia juga mendakwa bahawa dia masih di bawah penggajian Anwar dan mengugut untuk mendedahkan sebab sebenar kemarahan Wan Azizah terhadapnya.

Mengenai ancaman untuk mendedahkan lebih banyak gambar yang kononnya menunjukkan Anwar terlibat dalam tempoh pertemuan seksual dengan seorang lelaki blogger Papagomo, pemimpin PKR itu berkata, "saya serahkan kepada peguam saya untuk menguruskan perkara ini."

Semalam, peguam Anwar memfailkan saman fitnah RM100 juta terhadap blogger, yang nama sebenarnya ialah Muhammad Azri Wan Deris untuk membabitkan pemimpin pembangkang di dalam video seks yang didakwa direka.-FMT

Mengapa Anwar Tak Bertanding Di Permatang Pauh Lagi?? 

Bertanding di Luar Kawasan, Keberanian Terpuji 

Anwar mulls contesting in Perak...

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim may contest a parliamentary seat in Perak in the coming general election.

He said this when questioned on whether he would defend his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat in Penang.

“Some say I should go to Perak or Selangor but I am thinking of the former. But no decision has been made. I’m still considering it,” said the PKR supremo.

However, Anwar dismissed speculation that he might move to Lembah Pantai, where his daughter Nurul Izzah is the incumbent MP.

“Let her stay in Lembah Pantai. Why would I want to disturb her? [Raja] Nong Chik [Federal Territories and Urban Well-Being Minister] is already disturbing her enough,” he said, with a chuckle.

Earlier this week DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang was announced as the candidate for the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat in Johor, moving away from Ipoh Timur.

Anwar made the announcement when addressing a 10,000-strong crowd at a field near Sutera Mall, Skudai, for the 47th DAP party anniversary celebrations on Monday.

Speculations are rife that top guns from Pakatan Rakyat would be moved out from their strongholds to tough seats, in order to increase the chances of winning federal power.

Anwar has been the Permatang Pauh MP since his days in Umno until he was sacked from the party in 1998 and jailed on corruption charges.

Nevertheless, the constituents backed his wife, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in three general elections until she relinquished the seat in 2008, to make way for Anwar.

He won back the seat with over 15,000 votes majority in the by-election.

Anwar also announced that Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian would be contesting for the Limbang parliamentary seat in the general election.

He also announced other candidates; Ali Biju ( Saratok), Roland Engan (Baram), Abun Sui (Hulu Rejang) and Abang Zulkifli (Batang Lupar)

“These are other people we have decided for now. We will announce on other candidates later on,” said Anwar.

‘Fareez not my staff’

On another development, Anwar said that Mohd Fareez Kamal Intidzam had never worked as his staff.

“I’ve already clarified this matter. He was never my staff,” he said.

On March 7, Fareez issued a letter to PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, claiming he was being victimised by Wan Azizah and party vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar as he was close to Anwar.

He also claimed that he is still under Anwar’s employment and threatened to reveal the real reason of Wan Azizah’s resentment against him.

On blogger Papagomo’s threat to reveal more pictures purportedly showing Anwar engaged in a sexual tryst with a man, the PKR leader said,” I’ll leave that to my lawyers to deal with it.”

Yesterday, Anwar’s lawyers filed a RM100 million defamation suit against the blogger, whose real name is Muhammad Azri Wan Deris for implicating the opposition leader in an alleged fabricated sex video.-FMT

Soi Lek to resign if Tee Keat fielded, says report...

MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek is said to have told the party's central committee meeting yesterday that he will resign if the BN fields arch-rival Ong Tee Keat in the Pandan parliamentary constituency.

Quoting sources, China Press today reported that, apart from Ong, secretary-general Kong Cho Ha and vice-president Dr Ng Yen Yen (right), are also not on the list of MCA candidates for the impending general election.

Ong Ka Chuan, former secretary-general and elder brother of former president Ong Ka Ting, will not be asked to defend the Tanjung Malim parliamentary seat.

As for Chua himself, a minister before he stepped down in 2008 due to a sex scandal, the Chinese daily claimed that he will contest but that the seat has yet to be revealed.

Ng, also the tourism minister, will reportedly be replaced by Pahang state executive councillor Ho Khai Mun, who is now Bilut assemblyperson.

Treasurer Tan Chai Ho (left), who was defeated by Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim in the Bandar Tun Razak parliamentary seat in 2008 by 2,515 votes, will be given a chance to avenge his loss in the same seat.

The MCA has agreed to give two parliamentary seats - Wangsa Maju and Kuantan - to Umno but it was not clearly stated whether this involves a seat swap.

MCA will call another meeting on Thursday to finalise the list, according to the report.

Kong told China Press that he was not aware of the decision to remove him as a candidate.

Deputy president Liow Tiong Lai, meanwhile, claimed that yesterday’s meeting did not discuss the issues of candidates and seat swap.

“Will it be the last central committee-malaysiakini

 Soi Lek letak jawatan jika Tee Keat bertanding

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