Tuesday, November 3, 2009
》堤前革除曹智雄、蔡金星、姚伟豪和颜丰守的受委中委职位后,翁诗杰另委林祥才、蔡智勇、陈进明为中委。林鸿昌取代被撤职的梁邓忠出任法律局主任。挺翁到底,情义相随的王赛芝成为新闻局主任。
》针对16名中委上书要求召开特大,由於提案的内容违反党章,遭到驳回。
》蔡细历於今早获得社团注册局确认,他是合法的马华署理总会长。经过表决,22票赞成,12票反对,4票弃权,蔡细历由中委会重新接纳,此时,大势已去,只担任18天署总的廖中莱回到副总会长应有的座位,那张椅子换上蔡细历的屁股坐上去了,还有廖中莱的余温。
不过,心不甘愿的廖中莱表示,保留追究署理双胞的权力,或采取行动上诉。
较早时,他不愿意以票决来决定蔡的回归。但,有中委指出,10月15日的中委会议早就劝告勿仓促补位,但廖派当时人强马壮,执意票决通过让他上位。今日也应该重复昨天的故事,所以,一经票决,老蔡登岸了,摇呀摇,又摇到外婆家了。
》廖中莱在中委会中,用很无辜的表情,用很多的时间表达他与魏家祥和周美芬并没有逼宫谋位。不必说可以想像,有蔡细历撑腰后,翁诗杰有点自信,并不怎么鸟他,任廖如何说,不为所动。
》至於大团结方案的内容,当然爽了翁与蔡,就让廖与魏非常不快。没有问题,民主精神少数服从多数,举手:24票对17票通过。礼成。
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Humayun Kabir Oct 31, 09 5:21pm
As the adage goes one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and what BN has destroyed, Pakatan will make good use of.The humiliation and suffering that Pakatan speaker V Sivakumar underwent at the hands of the police when they forcefully disrobed him of his official speaker’s garb, may not have been in vain after all, as there is a plan to auction the piece of the robe that he managed to hold on to during the scuffle.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Kuala Terengganu Parliamentary by-election
- Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said the result -which saw PAS candidate Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut win with a 2,631 vote majority over BN's Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh -was merely a set back and would not have any bearing on the national political landscape. The loss does not mean they will in any way waver in their commitment to the people. They will redouble their efforts to serve the peoplr even better and take this nation to a higher level of success.
Many factors could have influenced the by-election's outcome and local factors could not be read as having a great bearing at the national level.
2. MCA president datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said the by-election saw an increase in support for the BN from the chinese community. Chinese viters renained with BN and MCA members had worked tirely during the campaign period. Despite the unfavourable result, he would like to thank the Chinese voters for staying with MCA diring these difficult times. MCA would not take the trust shown by them lightly. The people have, through the ballot demonstrated to us that aspirations of yesterday can be diffeent from today or tomorrow. We are now even more determined to work harder to serve the people the way they want to be served. We can no longer think we know better. The outcome strenthens our courage to change and accept that what we strive for for the nation may not totally reflect what the people want.
There are differences as well as common ground. We must learn and appreciate better these differences in order to shape a better tomorrow.
Chinese votors make up 10.9% of Kuala Terengganu's 80,229 voters.
3. Umno stalwart and Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah decribed the loss as a " humiliation for the BN" at the polls for the third time in 10 months. He has full admiration for hardworking party members who toiled for two weeks on a local struggle. But they lost because of national problems. The rakyat rejected Umno in its present form and style, and they rejected its leadership. Despite ringing signals the the rakyat through March 8 and Permatang Pauh, Umno has either not heard the call for fundamendal change or is unable to respond to it.
Money, machiney and incumbency could not trump the call for change. BN will lose, and will in the end lose everything , untill we respond fully and sincerely. But the respond from the leadership yet again is that this should not be interpreted as the the voters spurned BN. Their leadership remains in denial. Loyal Umono members and the BN will feel they are on the sinking ship. Tengku Razaleigh said Umno had lost by a large majority in a constituency in which 90% of voters are Malay despite throwing the national resources of a party in federal power into the by-election. This was more than a referendum on the leadership. It was a test of the relevance of Umno in its present form. If Umbno is no longer relevant to the Malays, the BN formular is dead. The Chinese will have no reason to support MCA. The power- sharing consensual bargain on which their political system has been based since independence is broken.
4. Opposition Leader datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that the victory would motivate others in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition to work harder and bring about much needed changes in the country.
5. DAP stalwart and Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang said the by-election had lived up to the historic significabce of the March 8 general election and delivered two important messages.First, the political tsunami in on course, confirming that the paradigm shift in Malaysian politics 10 months ago was not a fluke-shot but represented the wide-ranging political aspirations of malaysians. Secandly, a dire warning to Umno and soon-to-be prime minister datuk Seri najib, if they refuse to heed the people's call for hange.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
No more village elections
Menteri Besar, datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said the state government had discussed the matter with Parti Keadilan Rakyat(PKR) leaders last week and the latter had agreed not to pursue it.
On New Year's day, PKR leaders held village head election at Kampung Baru Gunung rapat despite a directive from the stste government three weeks earlier that all 134 new village heads in tghe state would be appointed.
PKR leaders Dr Lee Boon Chye, who is Gopeng MP and PKR vice-president and Gunung Rapat state assemblyman Chang Meng kai defief the directive and held t6he election in Gunung rapat which was won by Gunung Rapat PKR branch chairman Ten Chon g Yong.
They later announced that four more new village head elections would be held in Simpang Pulai, Ampang Baru, Lawan Kuda and Kopisan. These villages are located in Dr. Lee and Chang's
constituencies.
"There will be no more new village head elections.The stste government however accepts the kampung baru Gunung Rapat election as a test-case to see if the idea is acceptable by the people," he said after chairing the stste executive council meeting in Ipoh yesterday.
On whether the state government was prepared to accept Ten as the village head, Nizar said that wouldb be decided later, adding that the state government would wait for a report from Chang.

