4th election coming up in Permatang Pauh!

YB Mohd Hamdan of Permatang Pasir, 1 of the 3 state assemblyman in Permatang Pauh has passed away. This will trigger the 4th election since, and inclusive of the last General election on Mar 8th 2008. The voters will be asked to cast their vote again in this strong hold of Pakatan where the sitting [...]

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`Moral victory’ for BN?

BN managed to change 1000 voters who supported PAS before to cast their votes to BN-only 33 votes short of scoring an upset win. Was there a case for `moral victory’ by BN? When the next general election come along could the BN still pour a fraction of the resources they devote to Manek Urai [...]

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More to EC’s grumble about Police’s inaction?

It has been reported that the police-despite their huge presence, was not doing their job at Manek Urai by-election-leading to some of the flare up among the parties’ supporters. Is there something more to this lapse in command chain? According to the grape vines the EC Chiarman was from the same Home Ministry which oversees [...]

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PAS won by 65 votes only-OFFICIAL!

SPR has finally announced the official result as above which was reported earlier by MAFREL Kelantan. we will keep you updated on more details as they come in. This votes count is 1 vote more than reported by Malaysiakini. No official live reports in various mainstream/BN controlled media so far.
Details from Malaysiakini:
Voting rate: 87.3% [...]

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BN want EC to tighten rules-only against Pakatan?

The news report about BN asking EC to tighten rules on election sounds strange: the BN itself was involved in breaking the rules set by the EC eg campaigning on polling day. Why not the BN boss ask its own supporters to folow the EC’s rules for a start if the BN really want the [...]

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EC/SPR’s campaign ban on polling day ignored!

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Promise of selectivity

DPM Muhyiddin’s promises to build a bridge for Manek Urai had attracted criticisms of bribing voters from the Pakatan Rakyat. The criticism is understandable -since Pakatan parties are not in similar position to tap into Federal Fund to carry out public work projects. In this sense the promise is not fair to all parties. This [...]

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BN kicked start Manek Urai’s campaign with `pork barreling’ again?

Manek Urai: 6,000 pelajar dapat uniform, beg sekolah
Jul 5, 09 9:32pm
Seramai 6,142 pelajar sekolah rendah, menengah dan sekolah Arab di Manek Urai mendapat perhatian Kementerian Pelajaran yang akan memberikan mereka bantuan uniform dan beg sekolah secara percuma.
Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan Umno Kelantan Datuk Mustapa Mohamed berkata pemberian itu telah dinyatakan oleh Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri [...]

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1 police cover 7.7 Manek Urai voters on nomination day!

There will be 1588 police to attend the Manek Urai nomination day-which make the ratio between police and voters 1:7.7. Is this justified by security or some other agenda eg financial?
Ong BK
… Hishammuddin said 1,588 policemen have been deployed under a first phase to ensure an incident-free nomination tomorrow.

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