Speaking to reporters outside Istana Kinta, Mohammad Nizar said Ngeh would be appointed Deputy Menteri Besar I.
Ngeh won the Sitiawan state seat as well as the Beruas parliamentary seat in the recently-concluded general election.
He said the post of Deputy Menteri Besar II, who would represent the Indian community in Perak, would be announced later.
Mohammad Nizar said both the Deputy Menteri Besar posts were being created taking into consideration the interests of the multi-racial communities in the state, particularly the Chinese and Indian communities.
source : Malaysia Today
Showing posts with label the election result. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the election result. Show all posts
PENANG: LIM GUAN ENG (DAP) 47
SELANGOR: TAN SRI ABDUL KHALID IBRAHIM (PKR)A FORMER corporate honcho, 61, was chief executive officer of plantations company Guthrie from 1995 to 2003.
PERAK: IR MOHAMMAD NIZAR JAMALUDDIN (PAS)
an engineer by training.
KEDAH: AZIZAN ABDUL RAZAK (PAS)
64, a graduate of the renowned Al-Azhar university in Egypt, stands among the Old Guard ulama (religious leader) of Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS).
source: Malaysia Today
The reality is, Barisan Nasional garnered less than 50% of the popular vote in Peninsular Malaysia. Only when the votes from Sabah and Sarawak are added in would Barisan Nasional's share of the popular votes increase above 50%, but even then only slightly above 50%. In other words, the ruling coalition versus opposition votes were split almost 50:50. But then the ruling coalition comprises of 14 political parties as opposed to the opposition's three.
quarter million postal votes and the estimated three quarters of a million 'phantom' voters
The opposition needs just another 30 more Parliament seats to form the next federal governmentat (least 29 more to reach the half-way mark in the 222-member parliament to mount a challenge)
Abdullah's son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin, too lost. On the first count he lost by 114 votes. He then demanded a recount and this 114-vote loss mysteriously transformed to a 5,000-vote win. The great David Copperfield himself has admitted that even he is not able to perform this trick. Khairy knows he lost. Every man and his dog knows he lost. Whatever you might say can never transform this perception into reality.
two states would be led by PAS, two by DAP, with one for PKR.
We shall show the rakyat who voted for us how we run these five states in spite of being denied any federal funds.
source: Malaysia Today
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So it came to pass that Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, MIC’s powerful leader, spent his 72nd birthday, which coincided with Saturday’s general election, licking his wounds after a disastrous outing in Sungai Siput. His loss in that seat, which he had helmed for nine terms, also marked his political demise as he is now out of the cabinet.
The MIC had issued veiled threats that it needs representation in the cabinet and Parliament if the Indian concerns are to be heard. However, critics of the MIC say Samy Vellu failed to do that effectively even when he was in it.
Most profound was the temple demolition exercise in Selangor, the marginalising of Tamil schools, the issue of medical degrees from Russian universities – where many Indian students studied because of a lack of medical slots in local universities – being declared as unrecognised, and the failure to uplift the lot of poor urban Indians.
Having said that, the 12th general election has also woken us up to the fact that race-based politics may not be the way of the 21st century. And that equality for all races and the progress of the nation will be met when racial lines are blurred.
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“Alongside losing our two-third majority in Parliament, we have lost a record number of states to the Opposition, including the premier state and the home state of the prime minister.
by Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah in Sun2Surf (the Sun)
PETALING JAYA (March 10, 2009): Very few indeed, if there is any at all, can say that they expected the Barisan Nasional to be so humbled in this general election just after the country celebrated its 50 years of independence under its rule.
It not only lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament, its measure of its invincibility, strength and pride, but was also ousted in Penang, Kedah, Perak and Selangor. Of course many may be right about Kelantan.
So complete was its dominance that few dared suggest it would ever lose its two-thirds majority, the long-time target and objective of all major opposition parties or coalition of parties.
Thus many sniggered rather loudly when PAS vice-president Datuk Husam Musa suggested a week ago at a gathering of Kelantanese living in the Klang Valley that the PKR-DAP-PAS combination was close to winning over 116 parliamentary constituencies.
He seemed to be the only one on record as having said that the BN’s magical two-thirds would be breached, and that it was possible for the BN to be defeated or brought to the threshold of defeat.
His statement also suggested the depth of the cooperation among the three parties where the DAP is publicly coy about being seen together with PAS. But the dynamic of the campaign saw them cooperating and at some DAP rallies PAS flags were also displayed.
Of course the BN itself never for a moment doubted that it would maintain its hold on two-thirds of the seats in the Dewan Rakyat come what may.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, while admitting that the coalition that he leads would not be peforming as well as in 2004, had said the BN would maintain its two-thirds majority.
Shortly after casting his vote in Pekan, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak told RTM that the BN would win more than two-thirds of the Dewan Rakyat seats.
Some overconfident officials even said that the BN would repeat its 2004 performance.
So what happened? Why did the voters deliver such a punishing verdict?
It is apparent that the BN leaders had misread the mood of the people. After ruling for half a century it believed in its invincibility and refused to acknowledge that the people were angry with some of its policies, decisions and actions.
They thought that the street demonstrations in Terengganu and Kuala Lumpur were nothing more than occasional show of defiance and dissatisfaction over simple bread and butter issues and nothing more beyond that.
The BN leaders refused to accept the fact that people were now more intelligent than they were fifty years ago. That they were willing to come out and demonstrate, showed that they were really angry and want their grouses be quickly attended to.
Instead, they belittled the demonstrations as something initiated by the opposition parties. This annoyed many people and when BN leaders said that demonstrations are not part of the Malaysian culture, so much so someone wrote that “Umno was born out of demonstrations against the Malayan Union.”
Beside simple bread and butter issues like the rise in prices of consumer items, anger had built up from frustrations with the government’s seeming inability to deal with the increase in the levels of crime, refusal to acknowledge the on-going Islamisation, refusal to deal with complaints of neglect of minority races and its insistence to continue with the NEP.
They were also angry at the level of corruption and the seeming unwillingness of the government to root out the problem, but were instead seen as condoning some of the abuses that were becoming widespread.
Unable to demonstrate to get their grouses heard they shouted out their protest and anger through the only avenue available to them --- in fact, the only recourse encouraged by the government for them to take instead of demonstrating --- through the ballot box.
It was their anger that did it. They wanted to show that they matter and not a mere doormat. What PKR, DAP and PAS did was merely to harness that anger into votes for them or against the BN and they were quite surprised how easy it was for them to do it.
To his credit, de facto Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leader,Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, because of his determined effort to cobble together some form of cooperation between his party, DAP and PAS, emerged as an opposition iron, something the BN leaders had not counted on, as to them he was already “irrelevant”.
His ceramahs became rallies, and thousands flocked to his meet-the-people sessions throughout the country. His rallying call for people to vote opposition regardless of which party and as long as they did not vote BN was effective.
For instance, in the state constituency of Bukit Selambau in Kedah the voters rejected the MIC candidate and instead voted for the only other non-BN candidate, an independent, also an Indian. The result was a surprise as the more than half of the voters were Malays and demonstrated that the anger was multiracial anger.
Thus it is possible that attempts made to discredit him through the media by calling attention to what he did and did not do and what he said while he was deputy prime minister during the last week of campaign backfired.
To the opposition parties, without proper access to the mainstream media, the rallies helped them get their arguments across to the people. In this the police helped by “closing one eye” to the rules on ceramahs.
There is no doubt that despite its unpopularity especially after its move in withdrawing the use of the indelible ink, the election commission is somewhat vindicated when the opposition was able to make such huge gains.
For the BN it is time for reflection and reassessment. It must come to grip with itself and find out how, after winning such a massive mandate in 2004, it squandered the goodwill in less than four years.It must if it is not to become irrelevant.
taken from Sun2Surf (the Sun)
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Yes, his son-in-law won but he only won by a small majority, smaller than previously. He was also in a safe seat.
Why did the Umno supporters vote for opposition this time?
They feel their situation is under pressure. Inflation is high. Their lives are on the line. The people know that you can say that there is 6 percent growth but where is the 6 percent on their body? They are having to spend more money.
I've said this to Malaysiakini. When you say 6 percent, it is an average. This can be achieved by one person having a very high percentage but the rest have nothing. You can't have this sort of figures and expect people to vote for you.
The intelligent people would know that this is not correct. Those that don't understand all these figures, rather be guided by what is actually happening to them. What is happening to them is the higher cost of living and a lowering of their standard of living.
Will you return to active politics?
I won't return to active politics but if they want advice, I can give them. How can I return when once I stepped down they treated me like a pariah?
interview with Mahathir
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The winds of change blew loud and clear, sending the message that the people have had enough of the reports of abuse of power at the local council level, land-grabs by the well-connected, lack of transparency in spending taxpayers’ monies and arbitrary and ill-researched reasons for raising assessment.
from the Sun
SANI HAMID, DIRECTOR OF SOVEREIGN RATINGS, STANDARD AND POOR'S 'In my point of view there is no immediate effect on the sovereign rating, but the focus will actually be on two fronts, one is a decision-making process, i.e. what is the impact from the loss of the two-thirds majority on parliament?
'If that is going to lead a more difficult push to pass legislation, especially those measures that relate to the economy, one can imagine that if the government wants to raise oil prices, the other parties could create some opposition and the process would be more protracted.'
'Secondly, the opposition states, Kedah and Penang, are key states in the northern corridor story, so how this is going to impact those states with regard to investment and public funds will have to be seen as well.'
TIM CONDON, HEAD OF ASIA RESEARCH, ING: 'This is probably not good news for the equity market or the ringgit. I think the consensus was that the BN coalition would soldier on and have a sufficient majority to push through their spending programmes and the development of their corridors (economic development zones) ... but this puts in doubt that they will even be able to implement their spending programmes.
There really was no feel-good factor before (the election) and this really reduces the likelihood that there will be one in the near future.'
BRIDGET WELSH, POLITICAL ANALYST, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: 'It was a phenomenal shift. They lost up to potentially four state governments. I think the PM will potentially have to resign. This is unprecedented. The only other time this happened was in 1969 and that's why everybody is very nervous now because of the uncertainty.'
Berikut adalah senarai terakhir keputusan bagi jumlah kerusi di kawasan Parlimen dan Dun setiap negeri berdasarkan maklumat daripada Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR).
Parlimen (Dewan Rakyat)
BN : 140
BA : 82 - (PAS-23), (KeADILan-31), (DAP-28)
Jumlah kerusi : 222
Dewan Undangan Negeri (Dun)
Dun Perlis : BN (14), PAS (1) jumlah kerusi = 15
Kedah : BN (14), PAS (16), KeADILan (4), DAP (1), Bebas (1) = 36
Kelantan : BN (6), PAS (38), KeADILan (1); = 45
Terangganu : BN (24), PAS (8); = 32
Pulau PInang : BN (11), PAS (1), DAP (19), KeADILan (9), = 40
Perak : BN (28), PAS (6), DAP (18), KeADILan (7), = 59
Pahang : BN (37), PAS (2), DAP (2), Bebas (1), = 42
Negeri Sembilan : BN (21), PAS (1), DAP (10), KeADILan (4); = 36
Melaka : BN (23), PAS (0), DAP (5), = 28
Johor : BN (50), PAS (2), DAP (4); = 56
Malaysia's Elections Commission has transformed vote-rigging and gerrymandering into an art form.
In 1969, the opposition garnered 55.1% of the votes but still the ruling party got in, though minus its two-thirds. In 1999, the opposition garnered 46% of the votes and still the ruling party got in, and with a two-thirds majority on top of that. Since 1969 and 1999, the Elections Commission has 'fine-tuned' the gerrymandering so that the opposition will need 60% of the votes to form the government, and even then it is not sure if it will form the government with a two-thirds majority. That is what the opposition is up against. So, even if the Malays, Chinese and Indians unite as a solid front, it will still not be enough. There must be one more factor thrown in, the faktor dalaman or internal factor -- the element of sabotage within the ranks of Barisan Nasional.
Shahidan Kassim was dropped from the candidates' list and thereby would have to retire as the Menteri Besar of Perlis as well. He stormed into Abdullah's office in Putrajaya and only after the seventh attempt was he able to meet the Prime Minister. Under immense pressure and Shahidan's threat of handing the state over to the opposition, Abdullah relented and reluctantly gave him back his seat. This upset Umno's Secretary-General who had been trying to get rid of Shahidan because of his many sex scandals, the latest involving a very young girl who was forced to have an abortion to get rid of Shahidan's baby she was carrying.
the opposition would need 75 seats to deny Barisan Nasional its two-thirds majority in Parliament.
one of its comment:
written by Uncorruptible, March 02, 2008 | 17:48:43
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is now Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. I don't know how he got his doctorate degree, but let me tell you how he got his masters degree as told by one of his course mates. He enrolled in the UKM for his masters and during his studies, he was put together in group of five to do the course work. However, he hardly attended to the studies, and never did any course work with his group. His group was naturally upset, but decided to carry on the work and submitted the work to the professor including his name. The reason why he didn't do any work was because he had hardly any knowledge of English. The professor knew, but at the end of the course decided to award him a pass to save him embarrassment. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was furious and went to see the professor telling him that he (Ahmad) cannot accept a pass. The professor, as he later told his students, was shaken and so intimidated that he finally awarded Ahmad Zahid Hamidi an honours masters degree. So this is the type of professors we have at the UKM. And this is the standard of the bn leaders of our beloved Malaysia.
from: Malaysia Today
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