Govt departments’ expenses on by-elections cannot be ascertained by SPR!

Soalan Dewan Negara di mesyuarat Kedua, Penggal Kedua Parlimen Ke 12
SOALAN:
Senator Tn haji Muhamad Yusof bin Husin minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan jumlah kewangan yang dibelanjakan oleh semua agensi Kerajaan untuk mengendalikan pilihan raya kecil 2009 bagi kawasan Parlimen Bukit Gantang, Perak; DUN Bukit Selambau, Kedah; DUN Batang Ai, Sarawak; dan DUN Penanti, Pulau Pinang.
JAWAPAN:
Tuan Yang [...]

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UMNO Assembly paving for 13th general elections?

The UMNO Assembly after Abdullah Badawi assumed PM-ship paved the way for an early political `tsunami’ in 2004 General Elelctions. The dissappointment with the performance of Badawi led to the next `tsunami’ sweeping the other way against UMNO in 2008 GE. Now that Najib become PM and come out with another sweet talking `1 Malaysia’ [...]

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Has this anything to do with abnormal voters growth in Sabah?

More than 600,000 foreigners detected in Sabah
KOTA KINABALU, Oct 18 — A total of 610,614 foreigners have been detected so far in operations in the west coast and east coast of Sabah, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said.
He said the number consisted of 5,643 illegal immigrants identified under the first phase of [...]

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Perak state elections coming????

After Bagan Pinang win has UMNO become embolden enough to call for a Perak wide state elections to confirm its take over of the state government? Actually there was a detectable flow back of Malay support to UMNO at the Bkt Gantang by-election too. May be this is what it takes for UMNO to [...]

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Landslide win for BN’s Isa

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BN buy votes on eve of Bagan Pinang poll?

Press report (Malaysiakini.com) has it that DPM Muhyiddin announced that he will give away RM480 000.00 to 3 Chinese schools in Bagan Pinang at a Lantern Festival attended by MCA leaders. He made it clear his intention: `I give you money -you give me your vote-OK?’ He said he will announce more allocations to other [...]

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Nothing in the law disallow parties to put up campaign material-only an interpretation by SPR

SPR made an interpretation that the non-contesting parties are not allowed to put up campaign material during campaign period, despite admitting that there is nothing in the law which explicitly disallow that. In such a situation a Constitutional Court such as operating in Indonesia would bring clarity to the situation promptly. The SPR is supposedly [...]

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SPR will only check duplication of voters after poll

October 08, 2009 15:16 PM
Soldiers, Policemen Begin Casting Postal Votes
PORT DICKSON, Oct 8 (Bernama) — Postal voting began in the Bagan Pinang state by-election Thursday at two centres here for the soldiers and policemen.
The soldiers cast their votes at the Army Basic Training Centre (Pusasda) while the policemen at the Port Dickson Police District Headquarters [...]

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ROS accept PR to register as a coalition

The opposition parties are eligible to register as a coalition as the requirement of having at least seven component parties does not apply to them, said Registrar of Societies (ROS) director-general Md Alias Kalil.
“The condition does not apply to political parties as they enjoy a national status. Only state-level organisation aspiring to become a national [...]

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Bagan Pinang updates: Swiming pool promise to attract army votes?

Some updates:
* The Minister of Defence defended his promise of a swimming pool for the army camp as an answer to a request from the army; However why must the request be only made and answered on the eve of polling by the army? The Minister’s defense is simply challenging the intelligence of voters!
*PAS alleged [...]

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