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43-Days to 13GE – Has Transparency International Malaysia provisions to delete and disqualify signatories to its Election Integrity Pledge who blatantly violate its four principles in the run-up to the 13GE?
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Najib Razak on Wednesday, 27 February 2013
The Pahang Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob has followed in the footsteps of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to criticise Pakatan Rakyat leaders for their reluctance to sign the Transparency International-Malaysia’s (TIM) Election Integrity Pledge which was signed with such fanfare by the Prime Minister last Wednesday.
Adnan repeated the “old chestnut” that Pakatan Rakyat leaders are reluctant to sign the TIM Election Integrity Pledge because they have something to hide and that they are still doubtful whether the opposition coalition could responsibly run the country if they come to power.
Speaking at the opening of a meeting of the Pahang branch of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress in Kuantan on Sunday, Adnan said : “In future, if they abuse their powers, then the opposition leaders will give the excuse that they did not sign the integrity pledge to escape.”
I am shocked at such nonsensical argument spouted by a Mentri Besar, completely ignoring the laws of the land, religious teachings and ethics against corruption and abuses of power.
Is Adnan seriously suggesting that all the Barisan Nasional leaders, whether at the national or state levels, whether Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministers, Mentri-Mentri Besar, Chief Ministers and State Excos can claim entitlement to corrupt practices and abuses of power solely on the excuse that they had not yet signed the TI Election Integrity Pledge?
It is these lame excuses of UMNO/BN leaders which have raised questions and concerns whether the TIM Election Integrity Pact is meaningful or whether it is being used to “whitewash” all the corruption and abuses of power which have been committed by UMNO/BN leaders whether at the national or state levels in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
Too much made of The Economist Intelligence Unit Report
Posted by Kit in Elections, Media, Pakatan Rakyat on Wednesday, 27 February 2013
by Kee Thuan Chye
MSN Malaysia
24 Feb 2013
Too much has been made of the recent report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which is part of the magazine The Economist.
The Malaysian news agency Bernama spun it to make it appear a forecast of the upcoming general election result. It claimed the EIU predicted the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government “will” win the upcoming general election while the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat, for making “costly promises”, appears “a distant second”. It also said the EIU’s conclusion was based on BN’s “successful track record, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s reform agenda, and his successful economic leadership”. On the other hand, it added, “Pakatan’s populism has remained to be simply hot air”.
Rafizi Ramli, chief of strategy for one of Pakatan’s component parties, PKR, has, however, dismissed Bernama’s spin as being filled with incorrect information. “The report in itself is very neutral,” he said, “but because of Bernama and the way they spin it, it looks like The Economist is giving us a real thrashing.” Read the rest of this entry »
Can Chua tell fact from fantasy?
Stanley Koh | February 27, 2013
Free Malaysia Today
His hatred of the Pandan MP must have been so intense that it has affected his judgment.
ANALYSIS
MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek raised more than a few eyebrows recently when he announced that the party had chosen Gary Lim as the party’s election candidate for the Pandan parliamentary constituency in place of incumbent Ong Tee Keat, who has proven his winnability through five consecutive elections.
Within days, he was exposed as having told a lie. MCA’s Pandan division denied that it had chosen a candidate.
In making his ill-considered announcement, Chua offered possible reasons for the division’s rejection of Ong, which now sound like he had spun them out of his imagination.
In the two days between his announcement and the Pandan division’s “clarification” of it, one could almost hear glasses clinking and yells of “yam seng” as the opposition camp celebrated its certain victory in the constituency against an unknown candidate. Read the rest of this entry »
Sabah for Sabahans?
by Erna Mahyuni
The Malaysian Insider
Feb 20, 2013
FEB 20 ― Before you send me to Kamunting, realise I am not advocating Sabah leaving Malaysia.
But I think it is high time Sabahans have a good, long think about the status quo.
As it is, things cannot stand.
Last I checked, Sabah is still the poorest state in Malaysia. Nabawan in Sabah is the poorest town in the country, with a 70-per-cent poverty rate.
On top of that, a small private army has landed in Lahad Datu intent on claiming Sabah as its own.
If we had a referendum, what with all the “free citizenships” Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s administration has so benevolently bestowed upon foreigners, would Sabahans actually have the numbers to keep the state in Malaysia? Read the rest of this entry »
Your Vote Counts
by Allan CF Goh
Like the tiny drops of water,
When split, remains a puny thing;
But when all gathered together,
Become the mighty ocean king.
Like the ocean of tiny drops;
Pushed hard, it forms a tsunami.
We, too, can create the same impact,
When united with all you, him, me.
In this impending election,
Your ‘lonely vote’ really matters;
Together with like-minded folks,
And combined with other charters,
Can, too, bring forth a tsunami.
All our ‘insignificant’ votes,
When massed, unified and counted,
Can ensure a victory of note.
Change for a better tomorrow.
Stand up to vile exploitations.
Reject those without moral spine.
Realize our just expectations.
Convince your family and friends,
And those who righteousness support,
Do your citizen’s great duty.
On voting day, show your rapport. Read the rest of this entry »
Nong Chik’s Nonsense & Non-Appearance!
Posted by Kit in Elections, Martin Jalleh, UMNO on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
By Martin Jalleh
44-Day Countdown to 13GE – If Suharto or Marcos had signed an Election Integrity Pledge at the height of their power and office, would it enhance or discredit such a pledge?
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Najib Razak on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
I am not surprised that there has been no response whatsoever whether from the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the Cabinet or UMNO/Barisan Nasional coalition to my proposal in Kuching yesterday to attach a 10-Point Addendum to the Transparency International (TI) Election Integrity Pledge to ensure that signatories are signing a meaningful document to usher in a new era of integrity and good governance rather than being involved in a pure publicity stunt which will have absolutely no bearing or influence on the the quality of integrity and good governance of future governments.
Several Pakatan Rakyat MPs have signed the TI Election Integrity Pledge even before Najib appended his signature with great fanfare last Wednesday.
But it is precisely because Najib had signed the TI Election Integrity Pledge that grave doubts have been raised about the purpose and meaningfulness in signing such a pledge, as in his four years as Prime Minister, Najib had not shown any commitment or seriousness to combat corruption and abuses of power.
This is why Malaysia had plunged to the worst rankings in the annual TI Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in his four years as Prime Minister from 2009 to 2012 as compared to the past 18 years.
How can Najib convince Malaysians that he is now a “convert” in the fight against corruption and abuses of power when Malaysia in the past four years is most corrupt in the nation’s 56-year history when compared to the previous five Prime Ministers, whether Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Razak, Tun Hussein, Tun Mahathir or Tun Abdulah?
Can Najib’s signing of the TI Election Integrity Pledge absolve him of all the failures to check corruption and abuses of power in the past four years or his own involvements in corrupt deals and abuses of power? Read the rest of this entry »
Brimstone on BN!
Posted by Kit in Economics, Elections, Martin Jalleh, MCA, MIC, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
By Martin Jalleh
The long wait is nearly over. Did Najib delay too long?
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Written by John Berthelsen
Asia Sentinel
Monday, 25 February 2013
Malaysian Election Finally Nears
With the Lunar New Year out of the way and after months – years, in fact – of speculation, it appears that Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will finally call national elections, probably for the second week in April, amid speculation that he may have let it go too long.
Under Malaysia’s parliamentary system, inherited from Britain’s 127-year rule, the prime minister can dissolve parliament any time he feels his chances are good of winning a majority. There has been speculation for two years over when an election would be called. But Najib put it off while he struggled to put his touted Economic Transformation Program (ETP) reforms in place and to let some of the myriad scandals around him cool off.
For the prime minister, there are dangers on several sides. The common wisdom is that he must not just preserve the Barisan Nasional’s parliamentary majority in the 222 seat Dewan Rakyat, but must pull more than the 76 parliamentary seats that the United Malays National Organization won under his luckless predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in the disastrous 2008 election. He must also preserve more than 125 total seats for the component parties of the Barisan.
If not, his detractors say, he is likely to be blindsided from the right of his own party by forces aligned with ultra-Malay nationalists determined to preserve ketuanan Melayu, or Malay ethnic and cultural dominance and sovereignty. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, a Malay nationalist, is commonly believed to be after Najib’s job although UMNO stalwarts deny it. The state political parties in Sabah and Sarawak, whose allegiance has always been slippery, are also said to be ready to opt for the opposition if the vote is close and the price is right. Read the rest of this entry »
GE13 as a late pregnancy?
Posted by Kit in Elections, Mariam Mokhtar, Najib Razak on Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Mariam Mokhtar
Malaysiakini
Feb 25, 2013
This is Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s first experience in calling a general election, but waiting for the announcement is as bad as an expectant mother’s wait for an overdue birth. After a gestation of 42 weeks, it is recommended that labour be induced.
Unfortunately, Najib is acting like an overanxious, elderly primigravida, who prolongs the gestation period because he fears both the birth and the progeny. He also displays all the symptoms of a mother carrying a post-mature foetus; sleepless nights, backache, sweating and anxiety.
It is highly probably that elections have been rigged in Malaysia, for many decades. Recently, the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into immigrants in Sabah provided ample proof that citizenship was awarded in exchange for voting rights. In addition, the opposition has unearthed much evidence of cheating at the polls.
Yesterday, Najib announced that GE13 would be held only after the rakyat had derived full benefit from the success of his government’s national transformation policies (NTP).
He said, “That is why we wait until we are exhausted to hold the general election, we wait because I want to prove that the national transformation policy can truly succeed.”
Najib should have no reason to delay the announcement of the date for GE13, if he knows that Umno has cheated in the elections since the 1980s and he also knows that this cheating will secure a win at GE-13 – unless he has been warned by his intelligence services that he will still lose. despite the cheating.
Cheating can influence the outcome of an election to a certain extent and it does not help Najib that the electorate has been alerted to the possibility of cheating. The opposition and internal election monitors are also aware of the tactics that have been used to cheat, and foreign countries are observing the fairness of GE13. Read the rest of this entry »
Pakatan victorious: How frightening!
RK Anand | February 26, 2013
Free Malaysia Today
BN propagandists strike fear in the hearts of the Chinese about PAS and in the hearts of the Malays about DAP. But still a substantial of number of Malaysians dream of change.
COMMENT
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Scene I
The Honda Cub coughed up a trail of black smoke as it chugged along the labyrinth of dimly-lit alleys until it came to a screeching halt outside a dilapidated budget hotel. Chua missed the comforts of his Mercedes Benz but these were difficult times. The government’s decision to stop trade with evil nations like the United States had been a fiscal nightmare. Much had changed since that fateful general election.
With his helmet still on, he tiptoed up the creaking stairs and into the room where she was waiting for him. He then scanned the walls for hidden cameras. Satisfied, he slipped out of his clothes, climbed into the bug-infested bed and snuggled under the sheets next to his mistress. He recognised the fragrance of the Chanel perfume which seduced his nostrils. He had given it to her as a gift for Chinese New Year. It had to be smuggled from Singapore as such immoral items were banned. He leaned closer and his pulse raced with excitement and trepidation. He craved for a glass of Cognac to calm his nerves but alcohol, like Viagra, had been banned as well. These clandestine meetings placed them at severe risk with the ever vigilant moral police keeping watch for adulterous couples.
Chua’s greatest fear was that those bearded men in robes would burst through the door, drag him in chains to the public execution square Dataran Nik Aziz, once known as Dataran Merdeka, and stone him to death. Read the rest of this entry »
Manifesto Rakyat – Pakatan Harapan Rakyat
Posted by Kit in Elections, Pakatan Rakyat on Monday, 25 February 2013
Download/Muat turun Manifesto Pakatan Rakyat:
Malaysia adalah negara berpotensi besar. Rakyatnya yang bersaudara gigih berusaha. Negara dibina atas landasan agama dan akar budaya diikat oleh muafakat Perlembagaan.
Namun, cita-cita kita direncat oleh elit kekuasaan. Rasuah dan ketamakan membarah. Rakyat dibiarkan dengan kepayahan hidup.
Setiap daripada kita berhak mendapat yang terbaik. Pendidikan berkualiti, negara berkebajikan, peluang saksama dan pentadbiran beramanah menanti kita.
Demi kita, demi rakyat, bersama-sama ubah sekarang untuk melakar masa depan Malaysia.
Manifesto oleh Pakatan Rakyat di Shah Alam pada hari Isnin, 25 Februari 2013
Pengiraan Detik 45 Hari ke-PRU13 – Cadangan untuk tambahan 10 poin kepada Ikrar Integriti Pilihan Raya TI bagi memastikan mereka yang menurunkan tandatangan menandatangani dokumen yang bermakna dalam mewujudkan era baru integriti
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Najib Razak on Monday, 25 February 2013
Agak menghiburkan melihat pemimpin UMNO/Barisan Nasional cuba membesar-besarkan kenyataan oleh pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang menyuarakan keraguan terhadap autoriti, kewibawaan dan keabsahan Ikrar Integriti Pilihan Raya Transparency International (TI) selepas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, telah menandatangani ikar itu.
Ini kerana Najib perlu memikul tanggungjawab penuh terhadap menjunamnnya Malaysia ke kedudukan paling rendah Indeks Persepsi Rasuah tahunan TI sejak 18 tahun lalu.
Sejurus selepas kenyataan Najib di Kuching pada Jumaat bahawa pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat sepatutnya mendatangani Ikrar Integriti Pilihan Raya TI sekiranya mereka beriltizam dalam memerangi rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz segera mengikuti, secara dramatiknya menyatakan semalam bahawa “Apabila tiba masanya, saya akan tandatangan untuk menegaskan bahawa saya tidak terlibat di dalam rasuah, jenayah dan tiada berhutang dengan kerajaan”.
Terima kasih banyak-banyak kepada Nazri, dia telah mengingatkan rakyat Malaysia bahawa Najib telah gagal untuk membuat penegasan sedemikian apabila menandatangi Ikrar Integriti Pilihan Raya TI pada Rabu bahawa beliau tidak terlibat di dalam rasuah, jenayah dan tidak sebarang hutang dengan kerajaan!
Adakah Najib akan mengadakan majlis menandatangan semula Ikrar Integriti Pilihan Raya TI supaya beliau boleh secara tegas membuat pengisytiharan seperti itu, atau ia disebabkan seperti yang disebut Nazri, beliau “takut dan menyembunyikan sesuatu”? Read the rest of this entry »
Pengiraan Detik 46 Hari ke PRU13 – Seruan kepada Pakatan Rakyat supaya tidak lalai dengan rasa puas hati memandangkan Najib boleh membubarkan Parlimen dalam tempoh 12 hari sebelum ulangtahun kelima 308
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak on Monday, 25 February 2013
Saya menyeru pemimpin, ahli dan penyokong DAP dan Pakatan Rakyat tidak lalai dengan rasa puas hati mempercayai bahawa pilihan raya umum ke-13 telah ditundakan ke April, memandangkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak boleh membubarkan Parlimen sepanjang 12 hari sebelum ulangtahun kelima pada “tsunami politik” 8 Mac pada 2008.
Pada 9 Januar, saya diberitahu satu “sumber yang dipercayai” bahawa Parlimen akan dibubarkan pada 22 Febuari, tarikh pencalonan dan pembuangan undi pula ditetapkan pada 16 Mac dan 30 Mac, selepas mesyuarat peringkat tertinggi strategis politik Najib di Putrajaya pada hari itu.
22 Febuari telah berlalu pergi tanpa sebarang pembubaran, dan walaupun tarikh lain bulan Febuari juga telah dispekulasikan sebagai tarikh berkemungkinan untuk pembubaran Parlimen, secara umumnya kini dipercayai bahawa terdapat penundaan lagi bagi PRU13 yang mana pembubaran pada pertengahan Mac dan tarikh pembuangan undi pada minggu kedua April.
Walaupun rancangan asal strategis politik Najib untuk pembubaran ialah pada 22 Febuari dan minggu terakhir Febuari telah hancur, disebabkan satu demi satu kesilapan politik daripada Perdana Menteri ketika Tahun Baru Cina – yang paling terkenal ialah pelbagai bencana politik dan perhubungan awam di dalam jemputan berjuta-juta ringgit bintang K-Pop Korea Psy dan Gangnam Style ke Pulau Pinang pada hari kedua Tahun Baru Cina – Najib msih boleh membubarkan Parlimen 12 hari lagi sebelum ulangtahun kelima tsunami politik 308 pada pilihan Raya umum 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Pengiraan Detik 47 Hari ke PRU13 – Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja menyiasat kerugian RM100 bilion daripada skandal kewangan sepanjang 22 tahun Mahathir menjadi Perdana Menteri
Posted by Kit in Economics, Elections, Financial Scandals, Mahathir on Monday, 25 February 2013
Semalam, portal berita perniagaan yang baru berusia tiga hari KiniBiz melaporkan “Syed Mokhtar eyes Malaysia Airlines” oleh Jose Barrock, laporan bahawa Syed Mokhtar Albukhary mencadangkan kerajaan persekutuan mengambil alih cabang pelaburan negara, 69.3 peratus kepentingan ekuiti Khazanah Nasional Berhad di dalam Malaysia Airlines yang termasuk sebahagian daripada subsidi minyak jangka panjang oleh kerajaan untuk 60 tahun.
Rakyat Malaysia menanti pendedahan sepenuhnya perkembangan terbaru ini dalam kerumitan hubungan korporat-kerajaan, dengan “sumber yang dekat dengan Syed Mokhtar” menafikan terdapat cadangan untuk mengambil alih MAS dengan “dua sumber berlainan” mengesahkan bahawa urusan sedemikian sedang difikirkan.
Bagaimanapun laporan ini telah mengkedepankan isu utama dalam Pilihan Raya Umum yang bakal menjelang tentang kebimbangan orang ramai terhadap tadbir urus yang baik di Malaysia sama ada melibatkan skandal kewangan lama yang muncul dari penswastaan secara menyeluruh dan khususnya tentang penerbangan milik negara yang bermasalah; empayar perniagaan Syed Mokhtar dan hutang mega beliau mewujudkan kebimbangan sama ada ianya akan diselamatkan (bail out) kerajaan menggunakan duit penbayar cukai dan sejarah korupsi, kronisme dan penyalahgunaan kuasa di dalam senarai panjang Umnoputra yang diselamatkan dengan tanggungan rakyat sejak berdekad lalu.
Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 merupakan waktu paling sesuai untuk meninjau kembali isu-isu yang membimbangkan orang ramai tentang akauntabiliti, ketelusan dan tadbir urus baik.
Read the rest of this entry »
Pengiraan Detik 48 Hari ke PRU13: Najib ke arah mencipta rekodnya yang ketiga sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia bagi mengelakkan daripada menjadi Perdana Menteri UMNO/BN terakhir lantas memenuhi ramalan “RAHMAN”
Posted by Kit in Elections, Mahathir, Muhyiddin Yassin, Najib Razak, Pakatan Rakyat, UMNO on Monday, 25 February 2013
Parlimen ke-12 sepatutnya dibubarkan hari ini bagi membolehkan berlangsungnya Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13, dengan pencalonan pada 16 Mac dan pembuangan undi pada 30 Mac.
Akan tetapi 22 Febuari akan datang dan berlalu tanpa sebarang pembubaran Parlimen, dengan spekulasi bahawa tarikh pembubaran dianjakkan antara 15 – 21 Mac dengan tarikh pembuangan undi pada minggu pertama atau kedua April (dijangkakan pada minggu kedua supaya ramai pengundi Cina di negeri lain tidak akan membuang undi kerana mereka dijangka tidak akan pulang ke kampong halaman sekali lagi selepas pulang ke sana minggu sebelumnya bagi menyambut perayaan Qing Ming yang akan jatuh pada 5 April).
Saya dimaklumkan pertama kali tentang pembubaran Parlimen pada 22 Febuari selepas mensyuarat peringkat tertinggi strategis politik Perdana Menteri di Putrajaya pada hari yang sama, dan lima minggu selepas itu, ia menjadi tarikh yang terus dispekulasikan sebagai tarikh paling “hangat”untuk pembubaran Parlimen PRU13.
Namun jelas dengan kesilapan demi kesilapan, Datuk Seri Najib Razak kekurangan keyakinan terhadap persediaanya untuk Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 dan kemampuan untuk melepasi ujian Mahathir oleh mantan Perdana Menteri pada 31 Januari tahun ini.
Pada Malaysia Strategic Outlook Conference ke-15 mantan Perdana Menteri yang berkhidmat paling lama serta menjadi kuasa sebenar di belakang takhta UMNO secara terbuka merumuskan “ujian Mahathir” untuk Najib di dalam PRU13 – iaitu tidak cukup bagus untuk Najib sekadar menang dan beliau sepatutnya melepaskan jawatan dan memberikan laluan kepada Timbalan Presiden UMNO Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin sebagai Perdana Menteri jika UMNO/Barisan Nasional Cuma mendalam majority tipis di dalam PRU13, yakni tanpa memperolehi majority dua pertiga parlimen untuk Barisan Nasional.
Akan tetapi sehingga Tahun Baru Cina pada 10 Febuari, dengan Psy dan Gangnam Style yang berharga jutaan ringgit untuk Tahun Baru Cina Pulau Pinang pada 11 Febuari, Najib masih sangat yakin bahawa beliau bersedia untuk pembubaran Parlimen pada 22 Febuari.
Namun Gangnam Style dan Psy terbukti senjata makan tuan, memandangkan kemunculan Psy di Pulau Pinang bukan sahaja satu kegagalan, akibat buruknya tersebar seluruh negara sepertimana yang digambarkan oleh sambutan dingin yang diterima Najib apabila beliau cuba mencipta sejarah sebagai Perdana Menteri pertama yang menghadiri Rumah Terbuka Tahun Baru Cina Dong Zong enam hari selepas kesan Psy. Read the rest of this entry »
45-Day Countdown to 13GE – Proposal for a 10-point addendum to TI’s Election Integrity Pledge to ensure signatories are signing a meaningful document to usher in a new era of integrity
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Najib Razak on Monday, 25 February 2013
It is quite entertaining to see UMNO/Barisan Nasional leaders trying to create a song and dance on statements by Pakatan Rakyat leaders voicing reservations about the authority, credibility and legitimacy of Transparency International’s (TI) Election Integrity Pledge after the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, had signed the pledge.
This is because Najib must bear full responsibility for Malaysia plunging to the lowest rankings of the annual TI Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in the past 18 years.
Swiftly after Najib’s statement in Kuching on Friday that Pakatan Rakyat leaders should sign the TI Election Integrity Pledge if they are committed in fighting corruption and abuse of power, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz quickly followed suit, dramatically declaring yesterday that “When the time comes, I will sign to affirm that I am not involved in corruption, crime and have no debt with the government”.
Many thanks to Nazri, for he had reminded every Malaysian that Najib had failed to make such an affirmation when signing the TI Election Integrity Pledge on Wednesday that he is not involved in corruption, crime and have no debt with the government!
Is Najib going to have a re-signing ceremony for the TI Election Integrity Pledge so that he could categorically and unequivocally make such a declaration, or is it because to use Nazri’s words, he is “scared and have something to hide”? Read the rest of this entry »
46-Day Countdown to 13GE – Call on Pakatan Rakyat not to be lulled into complacency as it is still on the cards that Najib could dissolve Parliament in next 12 days before the fifth anniversary of 308
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak on Sunday, 24 February 2013
I call on all DAP and Pakatan Rakyat leaders, members and supporters not to lulled into complacency into believing that the 13th general elections have been pushed to April and after, as it is still on the cards that the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak could dissolve Parliament in the next 12 days before the fifth anniversary of the March 8 “political tsunami” in 2008.
On January 9, I was first informed by “reliable sources” that Parliament would be dissolved on February 22, with the nomination and polling dates fixed for March 16 and March 30 respectively, following a high-level meeting of Najib’s political strategists in Putrajaya that day.
February 22 has come and gone without any dissolution, and although other February dates had also been speculated as likely dates for Parliament’s dissolution, it is now generally believed that there has been a further 13GE delay to dissolution in the middle of March and polling in second week of April, so that outstation voters would not return home to vote so soon after the annual Qing Ming festival or All Souls’ Day in early April.
Although the initial plans by Najib’s political strategists for the dissolution of Parliament on February 22 and in the last week of February had been scuttled, because of one political blunder after another by the Prime Minister during the Chinese New Year – most infamously the multiple political and public relations disaster in the multi-million ringgit invitation to the Korean K-Pop superstar Psy and Gangnam Style to Penang on the second day of the CNY – it is still on the cards that Najib could dissolve Parliament in the next 12 days before the fifth anniversary of the 308 political tsunami of the 2008 general elections. Read the rest of this entry »
FELDA screening of ‘Tanda Putera’ proves movie racist, Ambiga says
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, nation building on Saturday, 23 February 2013
By Syed Jaymal Zahiid
The Malaysian Insider
Feb 23, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 – Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan questioned today the motive behind the recent private screening of “Tanda Putera” to Malay FELDA settlers here, saying this meant the movie was likely racist portrayal of the bloody May 1969 riots.
On February 18, over 3,000 settlers from the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) programme were shown a surprise preview of the controversial film in what the opposition has alleged was an attempt to “brainwash” them against voting for Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in Election 2013.
“My issue with Tanda Putera is why did they want to show it only to FELDA settlers.
“Show it to all of us. Let us all judge and believe me we will judge it… why only let a select few of people watch it? That shows what the issue is about,” the former Bar Council president said at a forum on racism held at the Civil Servants Golf Club here. Read the rest of this entry »
Chinese see Psy, Malays see May 13 film
Posted by Kit in Elections, Mariam Mokhtar, Najib Razak, UMNO on Saturday, 23 February 2013
By Mariam Mokhtar | February 22, 2013
Free Malaysia Today
As we approach the 13th general election (GE13), Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s interpretation of “1Malaysia” gets more bizarre.
To herald in the Year of the Snake, Najib made the surprise announcement that the Chinese would be treated to a special performance by the Korean entertainer Psy. Earlier this week, after much delay and heavy censorship, the Indians were finally allowed to view the film, “Vishwaroopam”.
The Malay masses, always on the wrong end of the stick when it comes to Umno’s largesse, were forced to view the Umno propaganda film “Tanda Putera”.
Psy’s performance allegedly cost RM3 million for a mere 12 minutes. The ban on Vishwaroopam caused promoters to suffer significant financial losses. Much of the box-office takings were diverted to pirated DVDs which were openly sold throughout Malaysia.
“Tanda Putera” cost RM4.8 million and is funded by the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) and the Multimedia Development Corporation (Mdec) – in other words, the taxpayer.
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