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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...
To all Malaysians let us rally
around YB.Liew Chin Tong's plea...
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
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.
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Dulu Madey buat,kini Najib.
Pasai tu la aku benci UMNO dari dulu...
Pasai tu la aku benci UMNO dari dulu...
A couple of crooks...
Puak Jibby dan puak Hadi Bawang...
