SPR - PH dah bantah, BN dok main wayang tongkoi...

Jangan berlakon, BN dicabar hantar bantahan jika betul tidak setuju dengan SPR...

DAP mencabar kepimpinan Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menyatakan pendirian tegas terhadap cadangan persempadanan semula kawasan pilihan raya yang menjadi pertikaian pelbagai pihak termasuk daripada komponen parti pemerintah itu sendiri.

Penolong Setiausaha DAP Selangor, Dr Ong Kian Ming berkata, BN harus menunjukkan kesungguhan dengan menghantar borang bantahan kepada Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) berikutan cadangan berat sebelah dan membelakangi Perlembagaan yang dibawa agensi itu.

“Saya cabar BN untuk kemukakan bantahan kepada SPR jika benar-benar tidak bersetuju dengan cadangan SPR itu,” katanya dalam sidang media di ibu pejabat SPR Selangor di sini, hari ini.

Beliau yang juga merupakan Ahli Parlimen Serdang berkata demikian sebagai menjawab soalan pemberita mengenai rungutan sama yang ditumbulkan parti komponen BN termasuk UMNO terhadap cadangan berkenaan.

“Itu semua sandiwara BN,” katanya ringkas.

Terdahulu, Adun-adun DAP Selangor, Ng Sze Han (Kinrara); Eddie Ng Tien Chee (Balakong) dan Lau Weng San (Kampung Tunku) menghantar borang bantahan bersama 100 tandatangan pengundi kepada SPR.

Ng Sze Han yang juga merupakan Bendahari DAP Selangor berkata, kawasannya yang sekarang ini berada dalam Parlimen Puchong akan dimasukkan ke dalam kawasan Parlimen Subang, yang dahulunya pula dikenali sebagai Parlimen Kelana Jaya sekiranya cadangan berkenaan diluluskan.

Katanya, ia akan mendatangkan masalah kepada wakil rakyat untuk mengurus kebajikan penduduk dan mengakibatkan kekeliruan kepada pengundi di kawasan berkenaan, malah akan menjejaskan pembangunan yang telah dirangka dan sedang dilaksanakan.

Eddie Ng pula berkata, mengikut cadangan SPR itu, kawasannya akan mengalami pertambahan pengundi berbanding PRU yang lalu dan didakwa telah melebihi jumlah purata pengundi DUN di negeri Selangor iaitu 36,000 pengundi.

“Pengundi di kawasan Balakong telah ditambah daripada 42,829 pengundi kepada 51,594 berbanding PRU yang lalu. Saiz kawasan juga bertambah, dengan kemasukan pengundi dari Sungai Chua.

“Ini menunjukkan bahawa SPR telah gagal untuk melaksanakan tugas mereka iaitu untuk memastikan bahawa jurang perbezaan di antara kerusi DUN dari segi pengundi dikurangkan.” ujarnya.

Katanya, meskipun SPR mungkin tidak akan mendengar bantahan yang dikemukakan oleh pihak Pakatan Harapan, ketidakadilan agensi pengendali pilihan raya itu harus tetap ditentang.

“Peluang untuk mereka (SPR) dengar bantahan kami ini adalah tipis, kerana memang jelas nampak SPR memihak kepada BN, dan persempadanan kali ini adalah untuk membantu BN terutamanya UMNO untuk kembali berkuasa di Selangor,” tambahnya.

Pakatan Harapan sebelum ini mendakwa cadangan SPR itu telah melanggar Jadual Ketiga Belas Perlembagaan Negara serta membelakangi prinsip demokrasi “satu orang, satu undi”, selain mewujudkan polarisasi kaum di kawasan-kawasan tertentu.

Pakatan turut menuntut penjelasan daripada SPR ekoran tidak ada penambahan kerusi DUN dan Parlimen walaupun pengundi di Selangor mengalami peningkatan 700 ribu pengundi daripada 1.4 juta pengundi pada PRU yang lalu.

Malah, Pakatan menegaskan bahawa akses jalan yang hampir sempurna di semua daerah di Selangor sepatutnya menjadikan jumlah pengundi di semua kawasan DUN sekata, sekaligus pengecualian Jadual Ketiga Belas Perlembagaan kepada kawasan pedalaman tidak terpakai dalam perkara tersebut. – Roketkini.com.

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Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej 

dead at 88...

After 70 years on the throne, Thai king dies at 88. On his birthday in 1977, King Bhumibol blessed his second-born daughter Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, then 22, with lustral water and gave her symbolic bael leafs to place over her left ear, opening the way for her to accede to the throne, should circumstances require it.

A palace-approved book, King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work, published in 2011, said the reference to a princess is only significant when no heir apparent has been designated.

"While the successions of all monarchs from the Royal House of Chakri involved a process of endorsement, in some form, involving either elder royals, the privy council or the national government, there is nothing uncertain about the next succession ... as things stand in 2011, the cabinet will inform the president of parliament who will invite Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to become king."

Under the constitution, Thailand's Privy Council will submit to the cabinet and parliament the name of the successor to the throne. The council's 18 members were appointed by King Bhumibol.

Prince Vajiralongkorn was educated in Bangkok, London and Sydney and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in the early 1970s.

He is an officer in the Thai military, a qualified military pilot and helicopter pilot and took an active part in military operations against the Communist Party of Thailand during the 1970s, also leading combat operations against a Vietnamese military incursion across the border from Cambodia.

Like Prince Charles, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn has waited year after year for the job. His birth on July 28, 1952, was the most significant male birth in the royal family for decades. The Crown Prince's full name runs to almost 70 words and took more than a month to compose.

The Crown Prince has married three times and fathered seven children, five sons and two daughters. In 1981 his mother Queen Sirikit said she had to be frank about the Crown Prince, whom she described as a "little bit of a Don Juan".

"He is a good student, a good boy but women find him interesting and he finds women even more interesting," she said. "So his family life is not smooth."

The Crown Prince once admitted in an interview in a Thai magazine that he knew he was seen as the family's "black sheep". He was the target in 1987 of a leaflet criticising his personal life. 

Does the crown prince have any other male children? 

The crown prince has four sons by his second marriage, whom he disowned in 1997 when he severed all ties with their mother, Yuvadhida Polpraserth.

At the time the crown prince stated that they had renounced all their royal titles. But the palace continues to recognise their right to use the title HSH, or His Serene Highness, even though the boys, now grown up, are banished from Thailand and live in the United States.

That leaves some doubt over where they sit in line to the throne, even though most commentators believe they are no longer considered possible successors.

It is widely believed that the crown prince may have had another baby boy this year with his current mistress, who is likely to become his next wife.

The issue is critical in a country where the monarchy is considered pivotal to political stability, and where King Bhumibol, who turns 87 this week, is in such frail health.

Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn appears to be sorting out his personal affairs before the succession, so that he can choose who will be his queen, and who will eventually succeed him.

What does Thai law say about the succession?

The 1924 Palace Succession Law, enshrined in subsequent constitutions, follows the principle of primogeniture, meaning Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn is the designated heir to King Bhumibol, and his own sons should inherit the throne after him, ranked by age.

However, the law also gives reigning kings considerable sway in choosing their own successor - and an amendment to the constitution now allows the possibility of a female successor. - bbc.com/smh.com

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