Harapan di Guar Chempedak...

Ada ribuan orang yang turun menyaksikan ceramah Pakatan Harapan (HARAPAN) di Guar Chempedak yang terletak di dalam negeri Jelapang Padi malam tadi.

Anak kelahiran negeri itu yang pernah menjadi perdana menteri - dan kini menjadi pengerusi HARAPAN - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad adalah seorang daripada penceramah yang ditampilkan.

Bagi salah seorang pemimpin DAP, jumlah kehadiran itu mencecah 15,000 orang dan ia membayangkan tsunami pengundi Melayu yang akan diterjemah melalui peti undi tidak lama lagi.

Apabila pilihan raya umum (PRU) ke-14 diadakan tidak lama lagi, anggota parlimen Kluang Liew Chin Tong yakin pola tsunami pengundi Melayu itu akan melanda ke seluruh Malaysia.

"Dengan tekanan politik yang ada, orang ramai masih sanggup menghadiri ceramah HARAPAN walaupun hujan berjam-jam.

"Setiap seorang daripada mereka mereka mungkin boleh mempengaruhi lima individu lain apabila pulang ke rumah.

"Program besar-besaran ini boleh menjadi penanda aras buat kita, terutamanya apabila media tidak melaporkan (program HARAPAN)," kata Liew dalam satu kenyataan.

Liew juga menyatakan kehadiran orang Melayu di majlis ceramah HARAPAN di kawasan luar bandar dan kubu Umno juga menunjukkan keadaan sama.

Sambutan sebegitu katanya tidak pernah dibayangkan pada masa lalu.

"Media berbahasa Cina dan The Star - yang dikuasai MCA - selalu menafikan berlaku tsunami Melayu. Mereka juga menemu ramah pemimpin Melayu bagi menafikan wujudnya perubahan berkenaan.

"Sebagai ahli politik pertama yagn membangkitkan isu tsunami Melayu, saya tertanya-tanya mengapa mereka (media terbabit) tidak pernah menghubungi saya (untuk mendapatkan pandangan)?" katanya.

Ajak ke Perlis pula

Liew yang juga pengerusi DAP Johor berkata dia membangkitkan kemungkinan berlaku tsunami berkenaan pada 2015 dan ketika itu wujud kelompangan kepimpinan Melayu.

"(Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri) Najib terpalit dengan skandal, presiden PAS cenderung kepada Najib dan pemimpin umum HARAPAN dipenjara," katanya.

Pengarah Biro Pendidikan Politik DAP itu menambah perdana menteri tidak mengendahkan kesulitan dialami rakyat dan tetap melaksanakan cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST).

"Jika pembangkang boleh mendapat tambahan 15 peratus undi Melayu yang menyokong BN pada PRU ke-13 lalu serta mengekalkan tahap sokongan pengundi Cina dan India, maka BN akan kehilangan sekurang-kurangnya 40 kerusi parlimen di Semenanjung Malaysia kali ini," katanya.

Menurut Liew, pengundi di kalangan petani yang berada di kawasan separa bandar yang akan menunjukkan perubahan ketara dengan memberikan sokongan kepada HARAPAN kali ini.

Sementara itu mengulas mengenai sokongan ditunjukkan orang Kedah malam tadi Dr Mahathir berkata rakyat memang sudah menunjukkan kesediaan mereka untuk berubah.

"Terima kasih Kedah. Parlimen belum dibubarkan, tetapi rakyat sudah bersedia untuk berubah. Bangkitlah demi masa depan Malaysia," katanya.

Dr Mahathir juga mengajak orang ramai menunjukkan sokongan sama pada ceramah HARAPAN yang akan diadakan di Perlis pula malam ini.


"Semalam di Kedah, malam ni Gunung Medan Utan Aji, Perlis. Jumpa di sana," katanya melalui Facebook. 

Sementara itu Pengarah Jelajah Harapan,Mahathir Mohd Rais berkata bumi Kedah hari ini telah digegarkan dengan lautan rakyat yang berbilang kaum agama dan bangsa yang membanjiri Program Jelajah Harapan di Guar Chempedak sebentar tadi.

Meskipun terpaksa bermandikan hujan tidak ada seorang pun berganjak dari tapak program malah didapati ada juga yang kecewa kerana tidak dapat bergerak ke hadapan dari belakang dek kerana terlalu ramai yang berhimpit-himpit untuk menuju lebih dekat kepada pentas.

Aura Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad terbukti telah mencetuskan gelombang kebangkitan rakyat bukan sahaja di negeri Kedah malah di seluruh negara.

Kebangkitan ini adalah kebangkitan rakyat, rakyat percaya masanya telah tiba untuk mereka menghukum kerajaan kleptokrat yang dipimpin oleh penyangak, perompak dan penyamun.

Barisan Nasional bersiap sedialah untuk dikafankan pada PRU14 ini! - mk

Despite heavy rain PH rocks Kedah 

at Guar Chempedak rally...

Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes that the massive turnout at a Pakatan Harapan ceramah in Kedah last night indicates that the wind of change is blowing in favour of the opposition coalition.

“Thank-you Kedah,” said the former premier in a Facebook posting to the people of his home-state.

“Parliament has not been dissolved, but the people are ready to change (the government),” he added.

Mahathir, who turns 93 this year and is crisscrossing the nation to speak at various ceramah, also urged Malaysians to rise up for the future of the country.

“Last night Kedah, tonight Gunung Medan Utan Aji in Perlis. See you there,” he said.

Mahathir also posted a photograph of the crowd at the Kedah ceramah on his Twitter account with the caption, “..in Kedah with a sea of people who desire change.”

According to DAP lawmaker Liew Chin Tong, the ceramah in Guar Chempedak in Kedah, drew a crowd of 15,000.

He believes that the overwhelming support signalled the coming of a Malay tsunami during the 14th general election.

Mahathir, who led Umno for more than two decades, has positioned his new party Bersatu as an alternative to the backbone of the ruling coalition.

Harapan, on the other hand, is hoping that the former premier would fill the vacuum left behind by Anwar Ibrahim's imprisonment and PAS' exit, with regard to capturing Malay votes.

The coalition also hopes Mahathir's presence at the helm of Harapan would diffuse Umno's claim that DAP controls the other parties and poses a threat to the position of the Malays and Islam.

Umno and BN leaders, however, have dismissed the possibility of Mahathir generating a Malay tsunami.

PAS, on the other hand, believes that the Islamist party would benefit in the event of a major swing in Malay votes.

Johor PAS commissioner Abdullah Husin argued that the tsunami would not be in Bersatu's favour due to the latter's relationship with DAP. - mk

Guar Chempedak...

PH di Gunung Medan,Utan Aji, Perlis.

Wrong for court to throw out...

PAS-UMNO cooperation audio 

recording making the rounds online...

The full 20-minute audio recording of PAS working with traditional rival Umno has been making the rounds on Facebook since last night.

The recording detailed how a team called "RTI" was formed in the run-up to the 2015 PAS muktamar (annual general assembly) with the blessing of the Islamist party's top leadership.

RTI's main job was to attack PAS leaders who were in the “progressive” faction, which favoured continued political cooperation with other parties in the then Pakatan Rakyat alliance.

As a result, 18 senior PAS leaders in the central committee were ousted in party polls. They went on to form Amanah, which is now part of the Pakatan Harapan opposition pact together with Bersatu, PKR and DAP.

The recording was initially released in five parts. It is said to feature the voice of PAS central committee member and Pasir Mas MP Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz, but he has denied being caught on tape.

"Some say the voice recorded is 1,000% mine, but I deny it, like how (PH de facto leader) Anwar Ibrahim denied the video slandering him," Nik Abduh was reported as saying at an event in Klang recently.

The voice in the recording mentions two names – “Maulana Shaari” and “Suwardi” – as two individuals who had connected PAS with Umno over political cooperation and accepting money from the Barisan Nasional lynchpin party.

Maulana is described as an important figure to the late PAS spiritual leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, as well as president Abdul Hadi Awang. Nik Abduh is the son of Nik Aziz.

Maulana is also said to be able to make connections with “everyone”, including Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Suwardi, meanwhile, once contested in Perlis on a PAS ticket and was close to Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom, who is in charge of Islamic affairs.

"(The late PAS spiritual leader) Haron Din trusted Suwardi completely, but the president (Hadi) doesn't. He is close to Jamil Khir," said the voice in the recording.

The person in the recording also claimed to know people from the US’ Central Intelligence Agency.

Kelantan PH chairman Husam Musa, who is also Amanah vice-president, was the first to release the recording in parts.

The recording has been damaging to PAS, giving rival Amanah a weapon to attack the party and recruit members.

Versi penuh audio 20 minit yang didakwa memaparkan suara AJK PAS Pusat Nik Mohamad Abdul Nik Aziz disebarkan melalui laman sosial Facebook malam tadi.

Video tersebut antara lain mendedahkan punca perpecahan PAS sehingga melahirkan parti serpihannya, Amanah.

Menurut rakaman tersebut, sekumpulan pemimpin PAS membentuk satu kumpulan bertindak khas menjelang Muktamar PAS 2015.

Pasukan dinamakan Reform Tajdid Islam (RTI) itu didakwa ditugaskan untuk menyerang pemimpin dari kalangan profesional dalam PAS yang digelar sebagai "Jebon" dalam rakaman tersebut.

Serangan tersebut didakwa menyebabkan 18 pemimpin kanan PAS yang berada dalam Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat dikalahkan melalui undi dalam Muktamar 2015.

Nik Abduh bagaimanapun menafikan bahawa suara yang ditampilkan dalam rakam tersebut merupakan suaranya.

"Ada orang kata suara itu 1000% milik saya, tetapi saya menafikannya sebagaimana fitnah video Datuk Seri Anwar dinafikan beliau," kata Nik Abduh pada satu majlis penerangan di Klang baru-baru ini.

Rakaman tersebut pada awalnya disiarkan dalam lima bahagian berasingan dan didedahkan secara berperingkat-peringkat. - themalaysianinsight

Why are foreign leaders snubbing Najib...

Check/Semak sini...

cheers.

PRU14 diadakan pada pertengahan minggu...

Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-14 (PRU14) dijangka akan dijalankan pada pertengahan minggu, dalam masa sebulan selepas Barisan Nasional (BN) melancarkan manifestro pada 7 April, menurut beberapa sumber.

Difahamkan, Parlimen akan dibubarkan selepas persidangan di Dewan Rakyat dan Dewan Negara tamat pada 5 April.

Mandat yang diperolehi BN akan berakhir pada 24 Jun dan pilihan raya perlu diadakan dalam tempoh 60 hari selepas tarikh tersebut.

“Kami menjangkan pembubaran Parlimen menjelang 7 April. Kemudian tinggal kira-kira sebulan sahaja sebelum pilihan raya diadakan, sejurus sebelum bulan puasa yang akan bermula pada pertengahan Mei,” kata sumber kepada The Malaysian Insight.

Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) berkuasa menentukan tarikh penamaan dan pengundian, namun secara lazimnya parti pemerintah akan mencadangkan waktu pilihan raya. Malaysia tiada undang-undang yang menetapkan tarikh pilihan raya.

Jumlah keluar mengundi mungkin merosot sekiranya PRU14 diadakan pada pertengahan minggu memandangkan pengundi di luar negara, terutama di Singapura, Hong Kong dan Australia biasanya pulang mengundi sekiranya ia dilakukan pada hujung minggu.

Kempen yang dijalankan oleh masyarakat sivil pada 2008 dan 2013 menyebabkan BN kehilangan majoriti dua pertiga yang membolehkannya meluluskan undang-undang dengan mudah.

Pilihan raya 2008 diadakan pada hari Sabtu dengan jumlah keluar mengundi 75.99 % dan pilihan raya umum 2013 pula pada hari Ahad yang menyaksikan 84.4 peratus keluar mengundi.

Kumpulan masyarakat sivil dan pemerhati pilihan raya Bersih 2.0 menyatakan bahawa pembangkang akan menang sekiranya lebih 80 peratus keluar mengundi. Peluang kemenangan itu kini semakin sukar kerana sempadan baharu kawasan pilihan raya akan memberi kelebihan kepada BN dalam PRU14.

Perdana menteri Malaysia yang paling lama berkhidmat, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, meraih mandat pertamanya dalam pilihan raya umum 1982. – Gambar fail The Malaysian Insight, 29 Mac, 2018.

Walaupun pada akhir-akhir ini pilihan raya umum biasanya dilakukan pada hujung minggu, dua pilihan raya umum pertama – pada 1955 dan 1959 – diadakan pada hari Rabu.

Perdana menteri Malaysia yang paling lama berkhidmat, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, meraih mandat pertamanya dalam pilihan raya umum 1982. Pilihan raya itu berlarutan dari Khamis, 22 April sehingga Isnin, 26 April ekoran masalah logistik di negeri-negeri Borneo, Sabah dan Sarawak.

Dr Mahathir kini memimpin gabungan pembangkang untuk PRU14, walaupun beliau menyokong Perdana Menteri Najib Razak dalam pilihan raya umum 2013. Rekod menunjukkan pilihan raya umum pada 1995 dan 1999 juga diadakan pada hari Isnin.

Isu melibatkan masalah pengundi di luar negara menjadi perhatian susulan kritikan Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nur Jazlan Mohamed ke atas tawaran syarikat penerbangan Cathay Pacific yang menawarkan diskaun surcaj kepada pengundi yang mahu menukar tarikh penerbangan untuk pulang mengundi.

Nur Jazlan dalam kenyataannya di Twitter mendakwa, tawaran itu menununjukkan bahawa syarikat berpengkalan di Hong Kong itu menyokong usaha untuk menukar kerajaan.

Kenyataan itu seterusnya meraih kritikan para pengguna media sosial yang menganggap Nur Jazlan mendakwa warga Malaysia di luar negara lebih cenderung menyokong pembangkang.

Cathay Pacific juga menafikan dakwaan tersebut. Namun Nur Jazlan terus mendesak agar syarikat tersebut menyatakan sekiranya ia akan turut berbuat demikian untuk pengundi negara lain. – malaysianinsight

Najib tak malu...

Najib malu jika Perdana Menteri (PM) Malaysia terdiri dari orang tua berumur 90 tahun lebih.

Tetapi Najib tak berasa malu apabila Malaysia mempunyai PM yang dunia kenal sebagai kleptokrat, perasuah dan pencuri.

Apabila percubaan untuk membersihkan duit yang dicuri dari 1MDB oleh anak tirinya dengan membeli mahligai di London, New York dan Hollywood, membuat filem lucah dan sebagainya dan didakwa oleh Department of Justice Amerika Syarikat kerana melanggar undang-undang “money laundering” di Amerika dan harta-harta yang dibeli dirampas, Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang dituduh terlibat tidak berasa sedikit pun malu.

Kapal layar Equanimity dirampas oleh polis Indonesia bersama Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Biro Penyiasatan Persekutuan Amerika Syarikat. TV dan majalah Indonesia melapor kapal ini dibeli dengan duit yang dicuri dari 1MDB oleh Jho Low, sahabat karib Najib. Seluruh Indonesia dan kepimpinannya sekarang tahu Najib terlibat dengan mencuri duit 1MDB, Najib sedikitpun tak berasa malu.

Malah Najib hadiri mesyuarat ASEAN/Australia di Melbourne tanpa sedikit pun berasa malu berada bersama Presiden Indonesia dan Perdana Menteri Australia dan Singapura, bahkan semua ketua-ketua kerajaan yang hadir tahu akan pencuriannya.

Tidak pun malu apabila cuba menasihat ketua-ketua Kerajaan ASEAN dan Australia akan cara menangani masalah.

Negara malu mempunyai Perdana Menteri yang seluruh dunia percaya telah selewengkan berbillion Ringgit duit Kerajaan. Negara malu Malaysia diklasifikasi sebagai negara rasuah dan kleptokrasi. Demikianlah rakyat berasa malu sehingga tidak mengakui rakyat Malaysia apabila ditanya di luar negara.

Rakyat Malaysia malu tetapi Perdana Menteri mereka tidak malu. Kononnya mempunyai Perdana Menteri, berumur lebih dari 90 tahun memalukan Najib.

Sesungguhnya amat pelik Perdana Menteri Malaysia ini. Apalah nasib rakyat Malaysia mendapat Perdana Menteri yang dipandang hina oleh dunia dan tak tahu malu. Rakyat malu.

Najib tak malu; tak malu apabila berjumpa dengan pemimpin negara lain dengan berlagak sebagai seorang yang boleh nasihat pemimpin negara lain. – Roketkini.com

'Datin' dipenjara 8 tahun...

Story kat SINI dan SINI

To all Malaysians let us rally 

around YB.Liew Chin Tong's plea...

We are at the tail end of this Parliament session, what is happening is just sickening. It makes me more determined to fight hard to win in GE14.

Barisan Nasional is bulldozing the redelineation motion today and, most likely, the Fake News Bill tomorrow. After which, Prime Minister Najib Razak can dissolve parliament any time. 

Processes are cynically abused to suit the needs of the political masters. 

Only 5 reps each from the government and opposition respectively were allowed to speak for 10 minutes each, and it is clear that the government wants the redelineation motion passed by 5.30pm.

When Speaker Pandikar Amin was challenged by Kit Siang’s question, the latter was slapped with a half-year suspension. 

What is clear is that Najib has lost the support of the public and is now relying on technicalities to win by default. 

A decade after becoming MP, I am fed up.  I am fed up of seeing the face of Speaker Pandikar and listening to his illogical rants.  I am fed up to see all the nonsense happening in the august house of parliament, right in front of my eyes. Malaysians are fed up. 

I pray that we can all come together, find common ground and fight hard in the GE in the hope to end BN’s rule and put in place a better  government for ordinary Malaysians. - Liew Chin Tong, MP of Kluang, Johor. 

Yes we are fed up.  And we are not going to just keep quiet about this. 

As YB Liew Chin Tong says   : 

It makes me more determined to fight hard to win in GE14. . . I pray that we can all come together, find common ground and fight hard in the GE in the hope to end BN’s rule and put in place a better  government for ordinary Malaysians...

Semak jika kawasan mengundi anda terlibat...

Here is my plea as well.  Let us fight folks.  

Spread this message far and wide. 
Talk to your family first. 
Talk to your friends at work. 
Talk to your neighbours. 
Talk to your friends at the masjid, temple, church etc.

A great evil has befallen our country.
It is we who must get rid of this evil from our country.
It is we and we alone who can help ourselves.
No one else can.

And remember this - we the people are the strongest force in our country. The tyrants, the thieves, the liars, the morons are no match for the people.  No matter how powerful they appear to be, they are cowards. Bacul in Malay.

They appear to be powerful but they are not.

One day we will see them scream and cry like babies. That day will come. For all the stealing and thieving and all the fear and oppression they have hoisted upon the people, they will pay for that. Most certainly they will pay.

So just like YB Liew Chin Tong says, let us be more determined, let us  all place great faith and trust in ourselves, that  "we can all come together, find common ground and fight hard in the GE . . and put in place a better  government for ordinary Malaysians".

This is not just a worthy cause but our survival as a nation and as a decent society depends on it. - ostb

Did Najib pocket the Malaysian election...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government on Wednesday pushed through controversial changes to the country’s constituency boundaries, a move opposition lawmakers immediately slammed as an attempt to steal a general election expected to be held within weeks. Najib’s Barisan Nasional used its majority in the 222-seat legislature to force through the new constituency boundaries late in the afternoon, just hours after it was tabled.

The former premier Mahathir Mohamad, who leads the opposition after defecting from Barisan Nasional in 2016, said at a protest rally before the vote that “these coming elections will most certainly not be clean”. At the event near parliament, Mahathir decried the premier as a “monster” and a “rogue” for forcing through the changes. The pro-democracy activist Maria Chin was quoted as saying the new electoral map was the “biggest cheating to ever happen”.

Inside the legislature’s chambers, Speaker of Parliament Pandikar Amin Mulia offered lawmakers ten minutes each to debate the issue, with a total of 14 lawmakers from both sides taking part. Raucous proceedings saw opposition lawmakers hold up signs with the phrase “rise up to stop cheating,” when the speaker called for a vote. Confusion also ensued after Pandikar ejected the bloc’s senior leader Lim Kit Siang, but later allowed him to remain in the chamber.

Najib told parliament the changes were necessary because of significant demographic changes in the country of 32 million people since the last boundary alteration in 2003. Members of the opposition Pakatan Harapan had earlier told This Week in Asia they would “throw in the “kitchen sink to fight the changes, which drastically redraws dozens of ward in their strongholds.

What could go wrong for Najib when Malaysia goes to the polls? With the new boundaries now ratified, observers say the premier is likely to dissolve parliament within days, triggering polls before the beginning of the Islamic holy month in mid May, three months ahead of an August deadline. 

Recent Malaysian polls have been tightly contested affairs despite repeated complaints from the opposition of unfair elections. This year’s contest has garnered particularly strong international interest because it pits Najib, haunted by a series of scandals since he came to power in 2009, against Mahathir, the 92-year-old former strongman premier who was once his mentor.

Responding to This Week in Asia queries, a Barisan Nasional spokesman dismissed the opposition’s complaints of electoral manipulation as a strategy to mentally prepare supporters for likely defeat. 

“The opposition will continue to say the elections are dirty as this is a tactic that they use to gain sympathy and also give them an excuse when they lose,” said Eric See-To, the Barisan Nasional spokesman. 

The trillion-ringgit puzzle in the Malaysian election

The new electoral map proposed by the election commission maintains the total number of parliamentary seats at the current 222.  Barisan Nasional currently holds 132 seats, while Pakatan Harapan has 72 seats. The Islamist party Parti Islam SeMalaysia, a member of the opposition until last year, has 13 seats. 

Pakatan Harapan’s main grouse is that, in states like Selangor which it governs, seats have been markedly redrawn compared to the boundaries used in the 2013 election. In the final map tabled on Wednesday, the electoral boundaries of some 40 per cent of Selangor’s state and parliamentary seats will be drawn based on a 2016 proposal by the election department. 

That is a departure from a revised second proposal tabled last year. This second proposal saw the election department reverse some changes in the 2016 map after nearly 800 objections from voters and Pakatan Harapan over malapportionment – the creation of constituencies of significantly uneven sizes. 

The latest map however reverts to the 2016 version. The reason for this reversal is not addressed in the redelineation report to be tabled in parliament. Local electoral experts say the election commission – statutorily an independent body – for decades has been lumping largely opposition-leaning ethnic minority and urban voters into highly populated constituencies. 

On the other hand, seats in the country’s Malay-populated rural areas – Barisan Nasional’s vote bank – are carved out to have far few voters. This means a Barisan Nasional candidate in general needs fewer votes than an opposition lawmaker to win elections under the country’s “first-past-the-post” system. 

Malapportionment is viewed as the reason why Barisan Nasional triumphed in the 2013 election despite garnering 47 per cent of the popular vote. This practice of malapportionment “blatantly defies the principle of one person, one vote, one value,” said Wong Chin Huat, a psephologist with the Penang Institute, a think tank funded by the state government of opposition-held Penang. 

'Kitchen sink approach'

“It’s going to be a ‘kitchen sink’ approach from us. We have no choice … with the latest changes reverting to the 2016 proposal the election will be stolen from right under our noses,” one senior opposition lawmaker told This Week in Asia under condition of anonymity. 

Charles Santiago, a Pakatan Harapan MP for the Klang ward in Selangor, said it was “clear the election commission has acted in bad faith”. The lawmaker is among those calling for the Speaker of Parliament Pandikar Amin Mulia to disallow Wednesday’s debate on the grounds that legal challenges are still pending on the redelineation exercise. 

The Court of Appeal, Malaysia’s second highest court, will deliver a ruling to one of the cases on Thursday.

Wong Chen, another Pakatan Harapan lawmaker in the Selangor state, said “international investors should be very concerned if the election is rigged and lacks legitimacy.”  Will insulting Robert Kuok cost Najib and Barisan Nasional the Malaysian election?
Keen observers of Malaysian politics meanwhile also joined the chorus of complaints over the redelineation exercise. 

“It is by the far the worst case of electoral manipulation in Malaysia’s history and one of the most egregious in the world,” said Bridget Welsh, an expert on Malaysian politics based in Italy’s John Cabot University. Welsh said if ratified, the changes would give Najib a chance to win a two-thirds majority in parliament. Barisan Nasional has not had a parliamentary supermajority since 2008. 

Said Welsh: “My estimate is that it will affect one third of the entire seats in favour of the government and shape the state government competitions in six states – Selangor, Perak, Johor, Trengganu, Kelantan and Sabah.” 

Wong, the elections expert, said the latest redelineation exercise threatened to make the country “an electoral one-party state where a kleptocrat survives”. Najib’s political opponents have often described him as a “kleptocrat” in the aftermath of the multibillion dollar corruption scandal at the state fund 1MDB in 2015. 

Najib has strenuously denied accusations that he funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars from the fund to his personal accounts, even though ongoing international investigations suggest otherwise. Instead, he has turned public attention towards the country’s economic turnaround after the initial plunge in investor confidence and the value of the Malaysian ringgit following the scandal. 

Amid the furore over the new boundaries, Barisan Nasional has maintained similar message discipline, instead of engaging with tit-for-tats with the opposition. See-To, the coalition spokesman, told This Week in Asia on Tuesday “in any redelineation exercise, some of their [opposition’s] seats will be stronger and some will be [weaker]. 

“You win some and you lose some, but if what you are selling is a strong and convincing story, there is nothing to fear.” - Bahvan Jaipragas,scmp.

EC chief admits racial redelineation...

Dulu Madey buat,kini Najib pula. 
Pasai tu la aku benci UMNO dari dulu...

A couple of crooks...

Geng Jibby dan Geng Pak Lebai...

cheers.

Persempadanan baru - UMNO/BN jangan dok syiok sangat...

Usul pindaan persempadanan kawasan pilihan raya yang dibawa oleh Perdana Menteri Najib Razak di parlimen hari ini akhirnya diluluskan dengan undi belah bahagi, 80 menolak 129 undi menyokong. Usul itu dibahas hangat dalam parlimen sepanjang hari ini bermula lewat tengah hari.

Seramai 11 orang wakil rakyat enam (6) dari BN lima (5) dari oposisi  mengambil bahagian membahas usul berkenaan.

Semua wakil pembangkang membahas memberi alasan dan hujah kenapa usul berkenaan perlu ditolak. Antara alasan diberi kononnya usul itu melanggar perlembagaan. Pihak SPR yang bertanggungjawab mengemukakan cadangan pindaan itu banyak yang mendapat kritikan pihak pembangkang dan dituduh menjadi "lembu bodoh" kepada Najib Razak.

Sekiranya SPR khusus pengerusinya Hashim Abdullah bertanggungjawab terhadap setiap apa yang dilemparkan kepadanya, wajar beliau meletak jawatan. Peletakan jawatan boleh dilihat sebagai tanggungjawab beliau serta untuk menjaga integriti suruhanjaya berkenaan.

Walaupun apa-apa yang dicadangkan oleh SPR itu masih memenuhi kehendak perlembagaan tetapi ada elemen-elemen yang terdedah menjelaskan ia dibuat atas kehendak parti memerintah atau melabakan parti pemerintah. Misalnya paling jelas bagaimana perseimbangan jumlah pengundian di setiap kawasan perbezaanya sangat ketara di antara satu lain.

Pindaan itu juga disifatkan sebagai pemusnahan kepada semangat nasional, perpaduan dan intgrasi kaum bila mana ada kawasan dilonggokkan dengan satu-satu kaum sahaja; kaum Cina diletakkan dalam satu kawasan manajala Melayu pula disatu kawasan.

Semasa menggulung perbahasan usul berkenaan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Zahid Hamidi menyenaraikan 14 perkara dibangkitkan oleh pembahas dan semuanya diambil kira.  Bagaimana pun isu dibangkitkan oleh wakil Sempurna, Shafei Afdal berkaitan pertambahan kerusi di Sabah yang telah diluluskan oleh DUN Sabah tetapi dibatalkan, tidak diulas Zahid.

Pindaan itu seperti mana dituduh pembangkang ia adalah untuk memberi kelebihan kepada parti UBN menjamin UBN terus mengekalkan kerajaan. Sekiranya tuduhan itu ada kebenaran namun UBN tidak boleh optimis sangat dengan pindaan itu akan berpihak kepadanya.

Pengundi yang terbabit dengan persempadanan baru itu belum pasti semuanya akan mengundi BN. UBN hanya boleh mengubati kebimbangannya sahaja dengan pindaan yang penuh kontroversi tetapi tidak dapat menjamin kemenangan mudah. Sekiranya peratus mengundi tinggi di semua kawasan pindaan dilakukan hari ini tidak menjamin UBN akan selamat.

Apa yang perlu dibimbangkan UBN ialah penolakan rakyat kepada UBN ke belakangan ini semakin ketara. Perpecahan dalaman Umno berikutan wujudnya parti PBBM dilihat memberi masalah baharu kepada UBN dan Umno yang sebelum ini dilihat selesa apabila Pas sudah tidak bersama komponen Pakatan Harapan sedikit tergugat dengan keaktifan Dr Mahathir menyerang Najib.

Sikap diambil oleh Pas terhadap usul dibentang Najib itu, dimana mereka turut mempertikai dan menolaknya akan mempengaruhi pengundian Pas di luar sana untuk tidak mengundi UBN. Apa lagi kalau tiba-tiba terbentuk persefahaman baharu dalam PH di mana Pas akan bersama pakatan itu ini boleh menyebabkan UBN akan menangis tidak berlagu. - Mohd.Sayuti Omar

Persempadanan semula yg UMNO/BN bentangkan secara tergesa2 dlm parlimen tadi, SELANGOR ada lah negeri yg paling byk perubahan penambahan kerusi dan penukaran nama.....ada 3 kawasan kubu kuat PH kerusi campuran, telah pecah jadi kerusi majority melayu di Dun tersebut....bukan Selangor shja.....Johor dan Kedah juga byk perubahan begitu...ni taktik jahat mereka......kawasan2 berbentuk campuran sudah menjadi kurang, tetapi memwujudkan kawasan yg berasaskan kaum yg memberi kelebihan kepada mereka...

Dengan keadaan luluskan RUU Persempadanan semula secara tergesa2, dlm masa yg singkat, mana mungkin rakyat faham kedudukan terbaru dan nama baru pusat mengundi mereka...penerangan pada rakyat terlalu singkat yg ketika ni bila2 sahaja UMNO/BN boleh bubar parlimen....ni semua taktik jahat UMNO/BN utk menang PRU14.... Ini namanya pencuri pilihanraya... - f/bk

Ketua Pak Lebai ponteng

PAS tolong tongkat...

Cam mana nak menang P/Raya utk BN ikut SPR

Mari nak komen pasal persempadanan semula SPR ni.

Ok mai kita tengok 2 case studies.

How to Win PRU for dummies.

1. PARLIMEN LEMBAH PANTAI.

Daerah mengundi yang dikeluarkan dari Lembah Pantai adalah kawasan yang solid pakatan masa PRU13 which are:

1. Jalan Tun Sambanthan
2. Kampung Bahagia
3. Kampung Bohol

Dan dimasukkan
1.Tasik Perdana

Nak tau Tasik Perdana tu ada apa? Situlah Bukit Aman bro. Ada 6500 pengundi saja di situ.

Lembah Pantai dalam bahaya.

2. Kaedah Rampas DUN HULU KLANG DAN PARLIMEN GOMBAK.

Daerah mengundi yang dikeluarkan adalah 2 kawasan yang solid pakatan semasa PRU13

1. Kuala Ampang (2k lebih pengundi) 
2. Ukay Perdana (2k lebih pengundi)

Dan dimasukkan 2 kawasan yang pro BN semasa PRU13.

1. Enggang Utara (2k lebih pengundi) 
2. Enggang Selatan (2k lebih pengundi)

And this guys, is how you win an election. *special thanks to my deepthroat for the analysis - fbk

Dewan kecoh, Kit Siang digantung...

Sidang parlimen ditangguhkan apabila berlaku kekecohan bantah membantah sebaik sahaja Yang di Pertua Dewan Pendekar Amin Mulia mengemukakan usul persempadanan dibentang kepada Dewan. Ahli parlimen pembangkang menimbulkan beberapa persoalan berkaitan usul berkenaan.

Keadaan mula menjadi kelam kabut, hinggar bingar sampai ada yang menyumpah seranah membawa kepada parlimen ditangguhkan. Keriuhan dan kekelaman kabut dewan ini menunjukkan Pendikar Amin gagal mengawal sidang.

Apa yang berlaku pihak pembangkang tidak berpuas hati dengan keputuan Speaker yang membuat dan mengambil tindakan agar ahli Parlimen Gelang Patah Kit Siang digantung selama enam bulan. Tindakan dibuat Speaker apabila Kit Siang enggan patuh kepada arahannya.

Speaker berbuat begitu apabila Kit Siang yang ingin bertanya dan mempertikaikan berhubung tindakan Speaker yang tidak membenarkan laporan SPR berkaitan persempadanan itu daripada didedahkan. Kita Siang mempersoalkan, dan berhujah sepanjang beliau menjadi ahli parlimen, tidak ada laporan parlimen diembargo.

Bagi Kit Siang apa dibuat Speaker itu sesuatu yang salah dengan amalan demokrasi dan peraturan Dewan.

Speaker tidak mahu melayan apa dibangkitkan oleh Kit Siang, dan terus memberi peringatan untuk bertindak terhadap Kit Siang. Sikap speaker itu itu dianggap undemokratik dan bias, oleh pembangkang menyebabkan seorang demi seorangh bangkit merayu dan juga menyerang Speaker yang bagi mereka tidak demokrasi.

Hampir semua jaguh-jaguh pembangkang bangun mempertikaikan tindakan Speaker dan mempertahankan Gelang Patah. Apa yang mereka tuntut dan mahu hanya keadilan dan hak mereka sebagai ahli parlimen.

Saat ini pula wakil kerajaan menyerang pembangkang ada sampai yang menuduh Kit Siang komunis dan juga mempersendakan kesihatan ahli Parlimen Sepang Hanifa Maidin.

Yang saya agak musykil sedikit ialah sikap ahli parlimen parti agama, (Pas) yang diam membisu, tidak ada seorang pun yang bangun mencelah atau pun batuk atau berdeham, hanya menyaksikan aksi kecoh itu. Dimanakah janji mereka untuk berfungsi sebagai penasihat sebelum ini?

Sepatutnya ada yang bangun membaca ayat-ayat al Quran Nur Karim atau hadith-hadith Nabi sebagai mentara dan jampi menyejukkan keadaan. Jelas bahawa kehadiran mereka di sidang parlimen hanya sekadar untuk memanaskan punggung dan terus “tepu” dengan sikap berkecualinya.

Keadaan ini perlu dinilai oleh pengundi apakah wajar atau tidak mereka dihantar ke parlimen dalam Pru akan datang. Trims. - f/bk

Spike in number of urban voters in redelineated Selangor...

The Election Commission (EC) redelineation will see a spike in the number of voters in several urban Parliamentary seats in Selangor.

It would create constituencies that have up to 150,000 voters should the proposal be passed in Parliament.

The EC has proposed for the Petaling Jaya Utara constituency to be changed to Damansara, Serdang seat to Bangi, Kelana Jaya to Subang, and Petaling Jaya Selatan to Petaling Jaya.

The Damansara seat is set to be the biggest constituency in Peninsular Malaysia with 150,439 voters compared with the 84,456 in Petaling Jaya Utara, which is held by the DAP's Tony Pua.

The Petaling Jaya seat, meanwhile, will have 129,363 voters compared with the current 78,404 voters under PKR's incumbent Hee Loy Sian.

Meanwhile, Subang will have 128,330 voters compared to the current 101,603 which is known currently as Kelana Jaya with PKR's Wong Chen.

Bangi would have 146,168 voters as opposed to 139,013 held by DAP's Ong Kian Ming.

Klang will have swelled to 136,222 voters instead of its current 98,000. Sungai Buloh will have 73,448 voters instead of its current 129,846 which is known as Subang under PKR's R. Sivarasa. -theSundaily

EC dismissed nearly all of 

Selangor voters’ objections...

Almost all of the objections raised by voters  against proposed re-delineation of electoral boundaries in Selangor where thrown out by the Election Commission, according to the report tabled in Parliament today by Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Of 738 objectors, each representing at least 100 voters, 92.1% were thrown out for failing to meet requirements of a local enquiry, the report revealed. 

As for objections that did make it to the local inquiry, 81.4% of them were rejected by the EC.

The objections were made between January and February this year when the EC held its second and final round of public hearings on the proposed re-delineation exercise for parliamentary and state constituencies in the state. The local inquiries were held in March. 

Voters’ complaints were similarly themed: Altered boundaries and the shifting of voters to and from neighbouring areas had distorted the ethnic composition of constituencies. 

Some voters also complained of new boundaries that ran down the middle of localities, such as housing estates, some of which lacked direct road access to the constituencies that they were being shifted to. 

Among the objectors was Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali, who told the EC to avoid creating "single-race constituencies", and that boundaries were unconstitutional under Section 2 of Schedule 13 of the federal constitution, which requires the EC to have regard for local community ties in its re-delineation proposals. 

The MB's objections, made at the local inquiry level on March 1, were thrown out. 

In the report tabled by Najib today, the EC had also included all 18 parliamentary seats listed in the first redelineation proposal last year. 

Out of the 22 parliamentary constituencies in Selangor, 18 constituencies were initially slated to have their boundaries altered prior to the first round of local enquiries between January and December. After the local enquiries, five parliamentary constituencies had their boundaries changed: Ampang, Kuala Selangor, Gombak, Pandan, and Tanjong Karang. 

It was these seats that much of the state's voters' contention were focussed on, according to the two-volume 1,000 page report that detailed voters’ objections in all the states and federal territories, except Sabah and Sarawak. 

The uneven distribution of voters is also evident in the parliamentary and state seats in Selangor, with the biggest seats having four times more voters than the smallest seats. 

The parliamentary seat of Damansara, for example, has 150,439 voters compared to Sabak Bernam’s 37,126 voters, according to the EC report. 

Meanwhile, the state seat of Subang Jaya, has 66,059 voters whereas the smallest proposed state constituency, Sungai Air Tawar, has only 15,033 voters.

According to calculations by electoral reform pressure group Engage, voters in BN seats nationwide have an average 1.6 times the voting power of seats controlled by the opposition.

The average number of voters in a BN parliamentary constituency is 48,288 compared, with opposition average of 79,436.

Malapportionment also meant that a simple parliamentary majority, or control of 112 seats, could be achieved with just 33% of the votes, according to a briefing by Engage member and political analyst Wong Chin Huat yesterday

Selangor has 2.078 million registered voters. 

The EC is mired in a protracted legal battle with the opposition-controlled Selangor government. The Court of Appeal will tomorrow rule on an appeal by the state government after it lost its bid at the High Court for a judicial review to declare the re-delineation exercise unconstitutional. – malaysianinsight

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