Ketua Wanita Umno Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil yang terpalit dengan kes lembu kondonya dalam isu penyalahgunaan wang rakyat oleh National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) sudah mengisytiharkan diri tidak bertanding.
Shahrizat
Jalil
Ketua Pemuda Umno Khairy Jamaluddin sudah membayangkan bahawa beliau juga tidak akan bertanding. Nama beliau juga sudah mendapat 'gap order' agar tidak keluar dalam media yang dikawal BN.
Ketua Puteri Umno Datuk Rosnah binti Haji Abdul Rashid Shirlin pula diura-urakan sebagai bukan calon winnable untuk pilihanraya umum ke 13 ini.
Ketua Putera Umno, Abdul Azeez Rahim dikatakan bukan 'winnable candidate' untuk Parlimen Baling. Ia berdasarkan senarai yang dikeluarkan oleh orang kanan Mahathir, Rocky Bru.
Rosnah binti Haji
Abdul Rashid Shirlin
Ketua Ulama Muda Ustaz Fathul Bari dilaporkan ditolak oleh Umno Perlis yang tidak mahukan calon payung terjun di negeri tersebut.
Perkara ini dilaporkan Malay Mail beberapa hari lepas yang menceritakan pertembungan antara ahli-ahli Umno Kangar dan Arau di PTWC.
Sebelum ini, Presiden MCA Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek telah mengisytiharkan bahawa beliau tidak bertanding.
Di belah MIC pula, tidak diketahui samada Presiden MIC Datuk Seri G. Palanivel akan bertanding.
Palanivel pernah ditolak menjadi calon di pilihanraya kecil Hulu Selangor, di mana P Kamalanathan dipilih untuk menjadi calon yang mengatasi Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, yang mewakili PKR.
Samy Vellu
Kelakarnya, bekas Presiden MIC Datuk Seri Samy Vellu muncul dan menyatakan beliau ialah 'winnable candidate' bagi BN di Sungai Siput.
Lebih mengejutkan, satu insiden di mana seorang pemimpin kanan Umno yang didakwa menampar dan menyepak seorang lelaki di Putrajaya minggu lepas dikatakan akan menyebabkan Setiausaha Agong Umno Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor tidak bertanding mempertahankan Putrajaya kali ini.
Ini pula diikuti desas-desus bahawa bekas perdana menteri Tun Dr Mahathir bakal menggantikan Tengku Adnan yang bakal berdepan dengan Naib Presiden PAS Datuk Husam Musa.
Abdul Azeez Rahim
Program pertama Husam di Putrajaya disambut hangat sehingga mengejutkan Umno sendiri.
“Ya. Sambutan program pertama Husam di Putrajaya adalah di luar jangkaan Umno. Bagi Umno, itu adalah luar biasa. Kini mereka terpaksa mencatur semula. Kemungkinan Mahathir turun kembali bertanding ada walaupun beliau menafikannya. Tingkat 2 B4 sedang mengatur strategi,” kata sumber Umno kepada Harakahdaily lewat malam tadi.
Umno-BN, katanya, kali ini menghadapi masalah besar dalam menentukan calon.
“Pemillihan calon kali ini ialah pertembungan Mahathir dengan Rosmah Mansor. Kedua-duanya ingin memastikan calon mereka yang dikemukakan terpilih. Mereka juga ingin memastikan jumlah calon Umno yang menang adalah dari kem mereka,” kata sumber itu.
Ustaz Fathul Bari
Ketika ditanya mengenai kemungkinan semua ketua sayap Umno tidak bertanding dan kesannya, berikut ialah jawapan sumber Umno tersebut:
“Jika Umno betul berbuat demikian, Umno akan hancur secara dalaman. Ahli-ahli Umno nak letak muka di mana? Nak jelaskan macam mana? Rakyat akan lihat Umno semakin tidak stabil dan akan tumbang.
"Saya tak pasti orang Tingkat 2 B4 sedang berfikir, tapi yang pastinya jika semua ketua sayap tidak bertanding, bersama dengan Chua dan juga Palanivel – BN akan hancur. Sebab itu Mahathir dan kroninya Samy Vellu dilaporkan seperti berminat bertanding,” tegas beliau.
Jadi siapakan calon-calon winnable pada pandangan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Harakahdaily bertanya kepadanya.
“Winnable itu main cakap saja. Winnable itu berdasarkan kesukaan Rosmah dan Mahathir. Mahathir dilihat cuba mencatur segalanya demi masa depan anaknya. Rosmah pula ingin mengekalkan kuasanya.
"Pernah tak terfikir kenapa Najib menyandang Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat? Siapa sebenarnya yang nak sangat jawatan itu?
Khairy
Jamaluddin
"Sebenarnya, jika rakyat celik politik, rakyat akan soal, Umno jadi macam hari ini bukan ke kerana Mahathir yang ingin menghancurkan Pak Lah (Tun Abdullah Badawi) dulu. Sekarang beliau pula kata nak datang repair.
"Kita pun tak tahu apa beliau nak buat. Sekarang Mahathir kempen ikut skrip beliau sendiri – sehingga menyebabkan war room Najib kelam-kabut nak pertahankan kenyataan Mahathir,” kata sumber Umno tersebut.
Mengapa Najib biar Mahathir berkempen?
“Ada perjanjian,” kata sumber Umno tersebut yang enggan mengulas lanjut.-harakahdaily
Ambiga appears at Nurul Izzah event...
Amid
concerns of a flawed electoral roll, Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar
appears to have roped in prominent pro-electoral reform leader Ambiga
Sreenevasan's assistance.
Ambiga made an appearance at Nurul Izzah's campaign trail last night, where Nurulo Izzah addressed some 400 people who had crammed into a narrow alley in Bangsar to listen to her.
They two are also scheduled to help promote Bersih's Pemantau volunteer election monitoring campaign at Bangsar's Lucky Garden morning market today.
However, Ambiga, who also spoke last night, maintained that she is non-partisan and she would be willing to speak on BN's platform as well - except for one problem: "This is, I only get invited by Pakatan Rakyat," she said, drawing laughter from the audience.
"If BN or Umno invites me, I will definitely go to speak, but I will say the same thing as I'm saying here," Ambiga added, before moving on to speak on her concerns about deaths in custody, corruption, and electoral fraud.
The Bersih co-chairperson also reiterated her plea to the people to come out and vote in large numbers in order to minimise the impact of any electoral fraud.
"Every single vote is going to count in this general election," Ambiga said, without referring to any specific constituency.
"That is what Bersih has been saying, that is what we have been fighting for. We have been fighting for a free and fair election; and this is not going to be a free and fair election. Sorry.
"But we don't give up. Can we give up? No. We must soldier on and we must fight the fraud," she told the audience.
Speaking to Malaysiakini after the event, Ambiga said this was her second appearance with the PKR vice-president, but she could not recall the first time, except that it was earlier this year.
Regardless of her non-partisan message, Ambiga appeared to be as popular with the audience as the incumbent MP, and many rushed to greet her as she arrived and when she left, just as they did with Nurul Izzah.
Nurul Izzah has expressed concerns about the electoral roll for her constituency on numerous occasions before, ahead of one of Kuala Lumpur's most closely watched battles in which she will take on caretaker Federal Territories Minister Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin.
Her concerns include a massive increase in the number of voters in Lembah Pantai, from just more than 58,000 voters in 2008 to 71,000 voters in the third quarter of 2012.
Of these, over 4,000 on the list are said to be dubious and Nurul Izzah's attempt to challenge this in court was unsuccessful, since the courts have no power at all to question the electoral roll.
Nurul Izzah reiterated her concerns and recounted the court case in her speech last night, and then urged the audience to "not only vote, but become a polling agent or counting agent and do what we can" in the May 5 election.-malaysiakini
cheers.
Ambiga made an appearance at Nurul Izzah's campaign trail last night, where Nurulo Izzah addressed some 400 people who had crammed into a narrow alley in Bangsar to listen to her.
They two are also scheduled to help promote Bersih's Pemantau volunteer election monitoring campaign at Bangsar's Lucky Garden morning market today.
However, Ambiga, who also spoke last night, maintained that she is non-partisan and she would be willing to speak on BN's platform as well - except for one problem: "This is, I only get invited by Pakatan Rakyat," she said, drawing laughter from the audience.
"If BN or Umno invites me, I will definitely go to speak, but I will say the same thing as I'm saying here," Ambiga added, before moving on to speak on her concerns about deaths in custody, corruption, and electoral fraud.
'Please come out and vote'
The Bersih co-chairperson also reiterated her plea to the people to come out and vote in large numbers in order to minimise the impact of any electoral fraud.
"Every single vote is going to count in this general election," Ambiga said, without referring to any specific constituency.
"That is what Bersih has been saying, that is what we have been fighting for. We have been fighting for a free and fair election; and this is not going to be a free and fair election. Sorry.
"But we don't give up. Can we give up? No. We must soldier on and we must fight the fraud," she told the audience.
Speaking to Malaysiakini after the event, Ambiga said this was her second appearance with the PKR vice-president, but she could not recall the first time, except that it was earlier this year.
Regardless of her non-partisan message, Ambiga appeared to be as popular with the audience as the incumbent MP, and many rushed to greet her as she arrived and when she left, just as they did with Nurul Izzah.
Nurul Izzah has expressed concerns about the electoral roll for her constituency on numerous occasions before, ahead of one of Kuala Lumpur's most closely watched battles in which she will take on caretaker Federal Territories Minister Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin.
Her concerns include a massive increase in the number of voters in Lembah Pantai, from just more than 58,000 voters in 2008 to 71,000 voters in the third quarter of 2012.
Of these, over 4,000 on the list are said to be dubious and Nurul Izzah's attempt to challenge this in court was unsuccessful, since the courts have no power at all to question the electoral roll.
Nurul Izzah reiterated her concerns and recounted the court case in her speech last night, and then urged the audience to "not only vote, but become a polling agent or counting agent and do what we can" in the May 5 election.-malaysiakini
cheers.
Eh... Reezal Merican dengan Samy Vellu nampak macam dua bersaudara?
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