PAS menang, tapi majoriti merosot...

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Sg Limau: PAS menang, 'Mukhriz tak kalah'...

Seperti yang dijangkakan, PAS berjaya mempertahankan kerusi DUN Sungai Limau yang menjadi kubu kuat parti itu dalam pilihan raya kecil hari ini.

Dan seperti juga yang dijangka, ia menang dengan majoriti yang merosot lebih 50 peratus kepada 1,084 undi daripada majoriti 2,774 undi dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU13).

Calon PAS, Mohd Azam Abd Samat (kanan) memperolehi 12,069 undi manakala calon BN, Dr Ahmad Sohaimi Lazim mendapat 10,985 undi.

Seramai 85.5 peratus (22,642 pemilih) daripada 27,222 pemilih dalam Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) itu menunaikan tanggungjawapnya hari ini.

Namun kemerosotan lebih 50 peratus undi majoriti yang diperolehi PAS menimbul persoalan mengenai kemampuan pemimpin pemimpin "dua M" di Kedah dalam menerajui parti masing-masing dalam berdepan dengan PKR di Sungai Limau.

Pemimpin "dua M" yang dimaksudkan itu ialah Menteri Besar Kedah yang juga pengerusi Umno negeri, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir dan Pesuruhjaya PAS Kedah, Datuk Mahfuz Omar.

Walaupun Mukhriz popular di kalangan ahli akar umbi Umno apabila hampir-hampir menumbangkan Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein bagi jawatan naib presiden Umno dalam pemilihan parti itu bulan lalu, namun pengaruhnya belum cukup untuk menarik sokongan rakyat di DUN tersebut untuk beralih sokongan kepada BN.

Begitu juga dengan Mahfuz, walaupun PAS berjaya mengekalkan kerusi tersebut, tetapi kemerosotan majoritinya dilihat telah mencalarkan sedikit kepimpinan pesuruhjaya PAS Kedah yang baru itu.

Beliau menggantikan Tan Sri Azizan Razak, penyandang kerusi DUN Sungai Limau yang meninggal dunia baru-baru ini, akibat komplikasi penyakit kencing manis.

Walaupun gagal merampas kerusi DUN Sungai Limau, namun kemampuan BN mengurangkan 50 peratus majoriti calon PAS boleh dianggap sebagai satu 'kejayaan manis' untuk Umno negeri pimpinan Mukhriz.

Memandangkan DUN Sungai Limau merupakan kubu kuat PAS selama ini, maka apakah kegagalan parti itu untuk mengekalkan majoriti yang dimenangi dalam pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRK13) lalu, akan memberi kesan kepada pengaruh parti Islam itu di Kedah menjelang PRU14 nanti.

Sudah tentunya, Mahfuz (kanan) dan kepimpinan PAS, khususnya di Kedah, perlu duduk semeja untuk menganalisa keputusan tersebut, dan mencari jalan untuk memastikan parti itu mampu mempertahankan kerusi-kerusi yang lain di Kedah, serta kemungkinan merampas kembali Kedah dari tangan BN pada PRU14 nanti.

Bagi Mukhriz pula, ia boleh dianggap satu permulaan yang baik dalam pentadbirannya di Kedah dan seterusnya mengekalkan penguasaan BN di negeri ini.

Namun itu, pastinya bayang-bayang bapanya, mantan perdana menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad akan terus membayangi pentadbiran Mukhriz yang menjadi menteri besar Kedah serta dilantik memimpin Umno itu selepas pilihan raya umum ke-13.

Mahfuz sebaliknya menyalahkan kemerosotan majoriti calon parti itu kerana pilihan raya kecil tersebut diadakan pada hari bekerja.

Ini menurutnya, menyebabkan hanya 2,300 daripada 3,600 pengundi luar yang balik mengundi hari ini.-malaysiakini 

Projek last kopek...Saat akhir sempat lagi buat jalan mini baru,dah tak sempat wooi,dah pukul 4.30pm...

Sementara itu, kegagalan BN untuk merampas kerusi ini juga menjadikan Menteri Besar Kedah Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir kalah buat kali kedua dalam masa tidak sampai sebulan.

Sebelum ini, Mukhriz yang memimpin jentera BN di Sungai Limau gagal dalam usahanya untuk merebut salah satu kerusi naib presiden Umno apabila beliau berada di tempat keempat di belakang Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein.

Mukhriz memberikan tumpuan sepenuhnya dalam pilihan raya kecil ini dengan berkampung di Sungai Limau sepanjang kempen berjalan.

Beliau berada di mana-mana dalam kawasan pilihan raya untuk memastikan jentera Umno berjalan dengan baik.

Ayahnya, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, turut dibawanya untuk membantu kempen BN. Selain gambar calon BN, gambar Mukhriz banyak digantung di sini.

Kekalahan calon BN juga bermakna program Karnival Rakyat yang banyak mendapat sambutan penduduk tempatan tidak berjaya diterjemahkan dalam bentuk undi untuk BN.

Ia hanya menghabiskan wang yang banyak kepada BN apabila barangan seperti gula, beras dan Milo dijual dengan harga yang murah.

Walaupun kerajaan telah menghentikan subsidi gula sebanyak 34 sen dengan alasan untuk mengelakkan penyakit kencing manis, gula dijual dengan harga murah di Sungai Limau.

Tindakan kerajaan menarik balik subsidi 34 sen gula telah menyebabkan harga gula naik melambung kepada RM2.84 sekilo, namun penduduk di sini mendapat gula dengan harga RM1 sahaja sekilo.

Sekampit beras 5 kilogram hanya dijual dengan harga RM5 sahaja oleh karnival anjuran BN di sini.

Namun, terbukti ia tidak berjaya membeli undi penduduk Sungai Limau, khasnya di kubu kuat PAS iaitu Bukit Besar, tempat berlangsungnya karnival tersebut.-TMI 

TV buat2 lambat umum keputusannya,nak bagi sedap hati melaun2 UMNO, TV3suku maklum yang BN sedang mendahului dengan lebih daripada 1,000 undi tika berita 8.00 malam tadi.

Profesor2 kangkong yang dah ready nak buat komen terpaksa balik tangan kosong...

Sungai Limau rejects Mukhriz and BN,blames 'outsiders' for defeat...

Students who register as voters using the address of traditional Islamic schools in Sungai Limau constituency, but originate from elsewhere, have been blamed for BN's defeat in the by-election today.

Kedah Menteri Besar Mukhriz Mahathir said this would explain why a rural area such as Bukit Besar would have a large amount of voters.

“We are aware that there are a lot of traditional schools in the area, but they shouldn't have hundreds of voters registered there,” he told reporters at the BN command centre at Sungai Kering.

Nevertheless, Mukhriz accepted the election results but questioned if this situation was democractic or fair to the bona fide locals.

“I don't want to question the results, but such questions have been raised,” he said.

PAS scored its biggest victory in the Bukit Besar voting district, bagging a 1,103 vote majority.
In all, PAS won only nine out of 19 voting districts, but it was enough for them to win the contest with a 1,084 majority.

EC: We had no choice

Despite the defeat, Mukhriz vowed that he will not ignore the Sungai Limau electorate and continue to fulfil BN's election pledges.

“We will continue with two projects. The first is the road from Guar Chempedak to Pulau Bunting. (Secondly,) the government is considering building a port in Pulau Bunting.

“Win or lose, we will do it,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kedah PAS chief Mahfuz Omar had blamed the smaller majority achieved by his party on the fact that the Election Commission (EC) had chosen a working day for polling.

He said that a significant number of party supporters work in other states and were unable to make it for voting because it was difficult to obtain leave after the Aidilfitri break.

When ask about Mahfuz's complaints, EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said the commission had no choice but to hold the election today.

He explained that the by-election must be held before the commencement of the SPM examination, which begins tomorrow.

“They have a right (to blame me)... or else you tell me how (could we have chosen a better date?)” he told reporters at SMK Agama Yan, the officially tallying centre.-malaysiakini

Hampa sakan, setelah menabur berjuta2 ringgit untuk PRK, lembu2 pulang ke KL melalui jalan yang baru di turap di Sungai Limau...

Meanwhile,PAS’s victory in the Sungai Limau by-election was a second loss for Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir in less than a month.

In the Sungai Limau by-election, Mukhriz threw himself into the campaign from the start.

He stayed in the constituency of mostly padi farmers and fishermen throughout the campaign, sometimes even spending the night on the floor of villagers’ homes.

He personally took the reins of the Umno machinery and even roped in his father and much-loved son of Kedah, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to help persuade voters to give BN a chance. 

Even with a reduced majority, PAS succeeded in defending the seat from a spirited BN onslaught which had used agencies from the state and Federal Government in the campaign period.

BN’s loss also meant that the huge crowds at its Karnival Rakyat programmes all over the constituency did not translate into votes for the coalition.

It only served to drain the BN’s campaign funds when groceries such as sugar, rice and Milo were sold at bargain prices at the carnivals.

For instance, even though the BN Federal Government had scrapped the 34 sen sugar subsidy at the national level supposedly to deal with rising diabetes cases, sugar was sold at RM1 per kilogram at its Sungai Limau carnivals.

In other parts of the country, sugar is sold at RM2.84 per kg.

And although a 5-kg bag of rice was sold at RM5 in these carnivals, which took place in the PAS bastion of Bukit Besar, it failed to “buy votes” in Sungai Limau.-TMI

Wanita UMNO Officer...known simply as "SHIEDA", in a spat between UMNO and PAS supporters, claims that PAS Officer had...'PUNCHED' her...

UMNO/BN mainstream press ONLY shows her photo lying in an 'Ambulance' as seen from the photo here claiming she had to he 'rushed-off'...

UMNO/BN mainstream online press NEVER shows Ms. Shieda from UMNO...'CRYING' before being taken into the ambulance...

Sounds similar to a stunt gimmick once played by PUTERA UMNO's Chairman Abdul Azeez whom during the Ijok by-elections I believe, claimed to have been beaten by 30 people, later taking a photo of himself for mainstream press laying in-bed in some Private Hospital with a neck-brace only to show-up a the by elections a few days later WITHOUT a scratch.

Seems THIS remaining term, UMNO/BN is truly OUT of ideas and "RECYCLING OLD SCRIPTS"-f/bk

cheers.