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Bilalah Abdul Wahub akan muncul?
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 27 March 2012
— Aspan Alias
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 27, 2012
27 MAC — Lama juga rasanya saya berada dalam Umno dan pernah bergiat hampir tiga dekad lamanya. Walaupun saya bukan seorang yang pandai dan jauh sekali untuk memandai-mandai, saya dapat banyak pengalaman bergiat dalam parti yang telah diberikan mandat untuk mentadbir negara selama kita mencapai kemerdekaan. Itulah sebabnya saya berani dan boleh untuk menceritakan perkara-perkara yang membezakan diantara Umno yang dahulu dengan Umno Baru yang baru berumur 24 tahun itu.
Bak kata orang tidak ada yang lama tidak ada yang baru. Keadaan bersalah-salahan itu memang satu keadaan yang natural. Hanya kita sahaja yang boleh memilih untuk memilih salah satu dari sifat berlawanan itu. Kalau ADA lawannya TIADA, Begitulah keadaannya. Mana kita tahu yang sesuatu itu panjang jika tidak ada elemen yang pendek. Masakan kita tahu mana yang panas jika kita tidak tahu dan pernah merasakan yang sejuk dsb.
Dalam politik dinihari kita sedang melihat satu politik yang belum pernah kita lihat dan alami sebelum ini. Keadaan ini berlaku disebabkan kali ini merupakan pilihanraya dalam mana rakyat ramai terutamanya gulungan yang muda bersama-sama terlibat memainkan peranan untuk membezakan politik dahulu dan politik sekarang ini. Kali ini juga merupakan politik yang pertama kalinya BN menghadapi pengaruh PR yang sudah pun memegang teraju pemerintahan dilima buah negeri dalam persekutuan ini. Read the rest of this entry »
Mentalqinkan Umno
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak, UMNO on Tuesday, 27 March 2012
— Sakmongkol AK47
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 27, 2012
Mari talqinkan Umno.
Ianya bukan apa apa. Umno sudah sampai masa tamatnya. Bila dah tiba maut, kita tak boleh melambat atau menyegerakan walaupun sesaat. Rakyat sudah lemas dan meluat dengan Umno. Untungnya, Umno tidak boleh melakukan apa apa untuk menyelamatkan dirinya. Setiap hari Umno menunjukkan lemasnya.
Najib berkata kepada rakyat jangan melakukan kesilapan sekali lagi. Amat benar — jangan melakukan kesilapan dengan memberi lesen kepada pimpinan Umno untuk merompak dan melanun negara ini. Pada kadar kerajaan Umno memberi kontrak dan pinjaman dengan kadar rendah, seolah-olahnya, kerajaan pimpinan Umno memerah rakyat. Negara akan bengkrap.
Lebih mendukacitakan — Najib menunjukkan sifat Umno yang bongkak. Umno merasakan dialah sahaja Melayunya. Dialah sahaja yang pandai mengurus negara. Dialah sahaja yang melindungi orang Melayu. Dialah sahaja yang boleh beri masa depan kepada orang Melayu dan Malaysia. Akan tetapi, fakta menunjukkan negeri-negeri di bawah Pakatan Rakyat di tadbir dengan lebih baik. Read the rest of this entry »
BN has failed the Indian community
Posted by Kit in Elections, Indians, university on Monday, 26 March 2012
— S. Barathidasan
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 26, 2012
MARCH 26 — The Malaysian Indians Progressive Association (MIPAS) has done surveys, studies, gained information and feedback from the rakyat showing that it is not true that the rakyat’s support for Barisan Nasional (BN) is peaking based on the party’s record of fulfilling its promises, as claimed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
MIPAS feels that it is not true that “big winds” are blowing towards BN.
The rakyat still does not have confident and full trust in the BN government as many issues have still not been fulfilled. Read the rest of this entry »
Probe on AG and ex-IGP if Pakatan captures Putrajaya
Posted by Kit in Crime, Elections, Law & Order, Police on Monday, 26 March 2012
Nigel Aw | Mar 26, 2012
Malaysiakini
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has declared that Pakatan Rakyat will probe attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail and former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan for alleged criminal wrongdoing if it captures federal power in the next general election.
This, he said, is because Prime Minister Najib Razak’s refusal to act on former Commercial Crimes Investigation Department (CCID) chief Ramli Yusuff’s complaint that Gani had fixed him and his team of police officers after they arrested an underworld figure.
“If there is no judicial tribunal, then we have to go back to the mandate of the people for a tribunal to find out whether we have criminals as the (former) head of police and attorney-general,” Lim told a 5,000-strong crowd at a Pakatan Rakyat ceramah in the Kuala Selangor stadium last night.
Lim said the allegation made by a former top police officer was unprecedented even in other countries and should have warranted an immediate investigation from the premier.
Last Friday, Najib had dismissed calls for a tribunal, stating that it was merely a claim which had yet to be substantiated.
Following this, Ramli expressed his disappointment that he and his officers, which he said had been wrongly charged but subsequently cleared by the courts, have been denied any avenue for justice. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib’s concern must be for real
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Felda, Najib Razak on Sunday, 25 March 2012
Jeswan Kaur | March 25, 2012
Free Malaysia Today
Indulging in corruption, cronyism and nepotism is not what a leader who “listens” to his people does.
COMMENT
Trusting a politician is the hardest thing to do; the risk is not just worth it. So when Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak says he will listen to the rakyat in choosing candidates for the 13th general election, it is too good an assurance to hang on to.
Is it not Najib who keeps “cautioning” the people that he wants “winnable” candidates to contest in the looming GE? How then does the rakyat’s choice make a difference to him?
In his March 22 interview with DJs Sam Mak and Tan Yi Hui in the one-hour 988 Street VIP programme of the 988 FM radio station, Najib said he would have to listen to the people when it comes to choosing candidates for the next general election.
“It is only right as a leader. I should listen to the people. So, therefore, I will make a decision that his or her time is up and should not stand as a candidate anymore,” were the premier’s words.
Najib is very right that he “must” listen to the rakyat, which he has not been doing. Indulging in corruption, cronyism and nepotism is not what a leader who “listens” to his people does. Read the rest of this entry »
Scandal-ridden BN on the ropes?
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Najib Razak on Sunday, 25 March 2012
Neil Khor | Mar 24, 2012
Malaysiakini
COMMENT
It has been some three months since I last wrote an article for Malaysiakini. I have, nevertheless, kept up with the issues that continue to glue Malaysians to their computer screens, iPads and mobile phones. Even the mainstream media cannot keep Cowgate off its pages!
There is little doubt that the next general election will happen in 2012. Every pundit in Malaysia is saying June. One cannot continue beating the war drums and delaying the date of battle.
For the opposition, the elections of 2008 never ended and they have been prepared for a long battle. Few remember now that nobody expected Pakatan Rakyat to stay together.
One senior member of a Chinese kongsi told me that he did not expect Lim Guan Eng to be CM for more than six months but now sings the CM’s praises.
Instead, what looks most brittle is the BN as a coalition. The decision to put up winnable candidates will apply across the board.
This means less seats for Umno’s traditional partners the MCA and the MIC; and the other component parties. This cannot go down very well with the component parties. Read the rest of this entry »
Malaysia after regime change
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, Finance, Politics on Saturday, 24 March 2012
— Tricia Yeoh
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 24, 2012
MARCH 24 — The intricate nexus between the worlds of business and politics has been an age-old tradition in Malaysia. Crony capitalism, a term to describe the intertwined relationship between business, politicians and the state, where individuals in the private sector benefits by obtaining licenses, concessions, government subsidies, other forms of protection from governments and appointments to key state owned enterprises through their close relationship with politicians and bureaucrats.
The main questions to ask in the event of a regime change are: Will it really ever be possible to extricate one from the other, given the context where this is an assumed norm? Second, how would a new government go about making these drastic changes?
There has been recognition of this problem by political players from both sides of the divide.
The Pakatan Rakyat (Pakatan) Shadow Budget admits, for example, that “Pakatan will face resistance from cronies that desire to perpetuate patronage and rent-seeking” when it begins to attempt open tenders and a more transparent procurement policy.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak also announced that a new initiative under the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) would regulate financing for all political parties, where all funding must be channelled to an official party account. He said that “a proper receipt record” would “prevent corruption and misappropriation on a grass-roots’ level…” Read the rest of this entry »
‘No More Bullshit’: Political Cognizance of a Rakyat for the Rakyat
Posted by Kit in Elections, Kee Thuan Chye on Saturday, 24 March 2012
by Syed Zahar
Malaysian Digest
We are living in interesting times. Here and now is a crucial episode in Malaysia’s modern political history, where things can go either way. To put things in perspective, it is a national duty of writers and media practitioners to feed Malaysians with the lowdown on the political situation in this post-March 8, 2008 era. And one writer has stepped up to the plate since even before the historical 12th General Election to do Malaysians a big favor by helping us make that informed decision come poll day.
Following his March 8: The Day Malaysia Woke Up (2008) and its sequel, March 8: Time for Real Change (2010), veteran journalist Kee Thuan Chye’s latest book is aptly titled No More Bullshit, Please, We’re All Malaysians. It’s a compilation of his trademark straightforward commentaries on Malaysian politics that were published in various print and online media (including Malaysian Digest) as well as the author’s past speeches, political plays, poems and interviews with various media.
Malaysians now can be categorized into four political mindsets. To put it simply, there are the staunch Barisan Nasional (BN) supporters, the fence-sitters, the strong Opposition supporters and then those who are more than willing to vote for the Opposition for the sake of change and to get the two-party system going. I would say Kee belongs to the last category as we can see from the following excerpt from his new book: Read the rest of this entry »
The civil service must prepare for change of government
Posted by Kit in Elections, public service on Friday, 23 March 2012
— IDEAS
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 23, 2012
MARCH 23 — The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) today releases a new Policy Ideas briefing paper that calls for the civil service at federal and state levels to plan and prepare for a smooth transition of administration. This is particularly important as we get closer to the general elections.
The Policy Ideas briefing paper argues that a smooth transition is more than just a peaceful transfer of power. It is also about ensuring that the effective functioning of government does not become too disrupted during the transition period. It provides case studies on how transition was managed in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, and the strengths and weaknesses of the systems in these countries.
Wan Saiful Wan Jan, chief executive of IDEAS says: “A clearly defined transition process is important. Politicians, especially those who are now in power, must accept that for the sake of the rakyat, they must create a proper transition plan. And looking at the latest developments, I think that it is more important to prepare in the states rather than federal because there is a chance we will see some states changing hands. Just imagine how disruptive it could be for the rakyat there if Kelantan or Sabah change hands. We can avoid the disruption by planning early.” Read the rest of this entry »
“I was born in Malaysia and I shall die in Malaysia” – I am proud I have stood by my statement of commitment and patriotism to Malaysia when I was 28 years old under my first ISA detention 43 years ago in 1969
Posted by Kit in DAP, Elections, Najib Razak, Parliament on Thursday, 22 March 2012
Recently, there has been a coarsening and vulgarisation of politics in Malaysia, even in this august House of Parliament, where lies and falsehoods are disseminated without conscience or compunction whatsoever.
During the present and past meetings of Parliament, the most irresponsible and despicable falsehoods had been made against me, accusing me of having instigated the deplorable May 13 riots 43 years ago in 1969.
For four decades, the police, the security forces and the government could not pinpoint who caused the May 13 riots in 1969, but suddenly, somebody knew who caused the May 13 riots – and I have been accused in this House of having caused May 13, through making the most racist slogans in the streets of Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13, 1969.
As a result, these lies and falsehoods that I had incited and sparked the May 13 riots, particularly in the streets of Kuala Lumpur on May 11, 12 and 13, 1969 had been blazoned on the blogs of UMNO cybertroopers. Read the rest of this entry »
Sejak Merdeka isu Melayu berkumandang, Melayu tidak ke mana juga
— Aspan Alias
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 21, 2012
21 MAC — Isu Melayu tetap menjadi bahan kempen Umno dan Barisan Nasional semasa kita sedang menanti tarikh muktamad pilihanraya yang akan datang. PRU boleh jadi hampir atau mungkin lambat lagi. Mungkin Najib Razak menangguhkan PRU ke13 ini sampai akhir penggal pada bulan Mac 2013. Terpulang kepada beliau untuk menentukannya.
Yang saya hendak sebut hanya tentang isu yang dimainkan oleh Umno dan BN sekarang ini dan isu yang paling jelas ialah isu keselamatan dan masa depan orang Melayu. Isu ini digunakan setiap kali pilihanraya di adakan. Ia semata-mata untuk menakutkan orang Melayu untuk meninggalkan Umno dan memberikan sokongan ke pihak lain. Ia menunjukan kegagalan Umno untuk memberikan penyelesaian terhadap isu Melayu ini.
Sejak mencapai kemerdekaan ini sahajalah isu yang dimainkan. Ia merupakan lagu lama yang sudah jarang didengar. Lagu ini kita dengar bermusim sahaja, iaitu semasa pilihanraya diadakan. Ianya adalah seperti lagu lama nyanyian Momok Latif dan anak muda sekarang ini sudah tidak suka mendengarnya lagi. Read the rest of this entry »
Pakatan: No point to Lynas PSC
Posted by Kit in Elections, Lynas, Pakatan Rakyat on Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Patrick Lee | March 20, 2012
Free Malaysia Today
A PSC investigating Lynas’ purported radiation will have no effect, with Pakatan MPs scoffing at its advent.
KUALA LUMPUR: A Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) investigating the Lynas rare earth plant near Kuantan will come to naught, opposition lawmakers said.
Pakatan Rakyat politicians said the government had no intention to scrap the controversial plant, hence it was pointless to form a PSC to study the plant’s safety standards.
They said this after opposition MPs marched out of the Dewan Rakyat, moments after a motion tabling the PSC was approved. Read the rest of this entry »
BR1M=BN’S money politics
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak on Monday, 19 March 2012
by Jeswan Kaur
Free Malaysia Today
March 19, 2012
Where did the government obtain the additional funds for the programme as only RM1.8 billion was allocated in the budget approved last year?
COMMENT
A meagre RM500 packaged under the guise of Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) might not do the trick in influencing the country’s voters to sway in favour of Barisan Nasional. The alm was nothing more than a trickery, conceived by the federal government to make sure the people’s nambikei or trust is bought at the cheapest price possible.
To hypothesise that the BN government is prihatin or sensitive towards the high cost of living plaguing the rakyat would be wrong; if BN was bona fide in its concern, its chairman and Prime Minister Najb Tun Razak would have more prudent with his monthly electricity and water bills, both amounting to RM160,000 and RM66,000 respectively.
Likewise, if Najib was sincere in wanting to assist the people, he would not have used money from the national purse to finance his daughter’s engagement ceremonies, as claimed by opposition PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli. Read the rest of this entry »
Guan Eng rallies DAP members, says survival at stake in GE-13
Posted by Kit in DAP, Elections, Lim Guan Eng on Sunday, 18 March 2012
By Clara Chooi
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 18, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — Lim Guan Eng today called for extra vigilance from DAP members to counter Barisan Nasional’s (BN) vote offensive, reminding them that the party’s political survival would be at stake in the coming polls.
Predicting that the 13th general election would be the country’s “dirtiest” in history, the DAP secretary-general said it was crucial for party members to stay resilient in the face of attacks from the ruling BN pact.
“DAP urges all leaders and members to redouble efforts to ensure that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) wins the next general elections so that DAP can remain a party in power in state governments and hopefully in the Federal government too.
“The danger signals are evident that the 13th general election will be the dirtiest in Malaysian history,” Lim said in a statement here in conjunction with DAP’s 46th anniversary today. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Useless’ to hold another rally, Muhyiddin tells Bersih 2.0
Posted by Kit in Bersih, Elections, Muhyiddin Yassin, UMNO on Sunday, 18 March 2012
By Lisa J. Ariffin
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 18, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dismissed today warnings that Bersih 2.0 may launch another rally, telling the election watchdog that street demonstrations are “useless”.
“To me, it is useless to do so (hold another rally),” Muhyiddin told a press conference today after attending the Federal Territory Umno Election Assembly here.
“Demonstrations won’t solve problems, they are just to show how much support you have,” he added, saying that if Barisan Nasional (BN) was to hold a similar demonstration, the pact could easily rally one million supporters.
Muhyiddin was speaking today in response to Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, who yesterday warned Putrajaya of a potential “Bersih 3.0” rally in light of lagging polls reforms and reports of a sudden surge of voters in some parliamentary constituencies. Read the rest of this entry »
Pakatan to back ‘Bersih 3.0’ if polls reform fails
By Lisa J. Ariffin
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 18, 2012
Aunty Bersih takes to the streets in the quest for electoral reforms during the Bersih rally last year.- file picKUALA LUMPUR, March 18 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have declared their support for a “Bersih 3.0” rally in the capital city if the Najib administration fail to implement meaningful electoral reforms before polls are held.
The leaders stressed that Putrajaya could avoid a tumultuous rally like last July 9 if their demands are met and recommendations by the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) for electoral reforms are implemented by the Election Commission (EC). Read the rest of this entry »
Why women are marching on March 18
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Elections, women on Saturday, 17 March 2012
— Ivy Josiah
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 17, 2012
MARCH 17 — Tomorrow, a coalition of organisations called Wanita Suara Perubahan will gather at the Padang Astaka in Petaling Jaya. The staff, members and volunteers of the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) will also be marching proudly as part of Wanita Suara Perubahan with thousands of women from all over Malaysia demanding a clean government.
We will all be wearing white gloves. The gloves represent clean hands and symbolise clean government and as the country prepares for next general election, we want our elected representatives to commit to ensuring a clean government for Malaysia.
We want our political leaders to accept and realise the demands of women, which include: a government free from corruption, the introduction of a decent living wage, a better quality of life, an end to gender-based violence, the repeal of laws that restrict public assemblies and the establishment of free and fair elections.
Our demand for a corruption-free and accountable government is critical, as women are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of corruption, racism, exploitation, divisive politics and a curtailment of civil liberties. Millions of ringgit have been misspent that should have been used to ensure adequate housing, health, transportation, education, living wages and environmental protection. Women suffer the consequences of unjust laws as well as poor enforcement of laws relating to personal safety and gender-based violence. Read the rest of this entry »
Najib wants Selangor, badly
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak, Pakatan Rakyat, Selangor, UMNO on Friday, 16 March 2012
— Gomen Man
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 16, 2012
MARCH 16 — There is a reason why Najib Razak is going to Selangor nearly every week: Getting back the country’s richest state is the minimum passing mark he has set himself in the coming elections.
Umno insiders say that Najib and his strategists do not believe Barisan Nasional (BN) can regain its two-thirds control of Parliament, but think that winning back Selangor will assuage Umno members and prevent a coup attempt against him.
And that is why Najib is using money like water in Selangor and spending nearly every weekend in some district there. And that is also why Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has reason to be worried about the sudden increase in the number of voters in constituencies in the state.
As it stands, Najib is confident that he will still be the prime minister and that he will do slightly better than Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. But not everyone in Umno believes that Najib’s advisors are giving him the right information, with some betting that anything between six and 10 parliamentary seats will fall in Sarawak, and that a good number of seats in Johor will also be lost.
On the flip side, Umno is confident that Kelantan will be retaken and Perak will stay with BN. Najib is due to visit Perak tomorrow and meet folks in Beruas and Ipoh, among other places, to convince them that his coalition is the best for the state. Read the rest of this entry »
Mr Prime Minister, debate this!
Posted by Kit in Elections, Najib Razak, Parliament on Thursday, 15 March 2012
by Praba Ganesan
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 15, 2012
MARCH 15 — So Najib does not like to debate. But why not?
Some people don’t like to eat oranges, we let them be.
So I suppose if some have the right to not like round juicy objects which are hard-going — peeling with your hands and all (so prole!) — you can equally extend this right to Datuk Seri Najib Razak in other arbitrary matters, such as refusing to debate publicly about our country’s current path and how to raise the bar as a progressive society.
However, the prime minister has to keep some consistency, just so the historians characterise him right later.
He should start by closing down Parliament. This is an institution intended to encourage our finest political minds to have laborious, unyielding and rarely funny discussions about the country, mostly by disagreeing. Read the rest of this entry »
Fixed dates for elections
— P. Ramakrishnan
The Malaysian Insider
Mar 14, 2012
MARCH 14 — Aliran executive committee members have a discussion before making their submissions to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reforms
Elections should not be a cat-and-mouse game. It should never be a guessing game either. There should be a definite predetermined date that is publicly disclosed so that everyone knows the date of the next general election.
This is practised by a number of countries which have a fixed date for the election. Among them are Norway and Switzerland with fixed dates. Canada and its provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Northwest Territories) have implemented fixed-term elections too.
In the United Kingdom the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 fixes the general election on the first Thursday in May every five years. Elections to the European Parliament occur every five years in June. Read the rest of this entry »
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