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Saving Parliament from the EC

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 23, 2010 5 Comments

I COULD not believe the Election Commission (EC)’s admission that 228 (0.35%) voters had been transferred out of the Hulu Selangor parliamentary constituency to the neighbouring Selayang parliamentary constituency. Now, it is not news that voters get transferred involuntarily — you may even call it voter trafficking or abduction — from their neighbourhoods to faraway […]

PAS’s dance with alcohol

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 23, 2010 7 Comments

“Zaid committed a personal sin when he consumed alcohol. If he has repented and Allah accepts it, his sins are forgiven.” PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali, on character assassinations against Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)’s candidate for Hulu Selangor, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, for his alcohol-drinking. Mustafa called Zaid’s detractors “unprofessional”, and reminded them not to forget […]

A poster is worth a thousand votes?

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 23, 2010 6 Comments

THEY say a picture is worth a thousand words. In Hulu Selangor, if a poster is worth a 1,000 votes, Barisan Nasional (BN) would win the by-election hands down. The BN has literally “gone to town” with their campaign posters. Over a dozen different poster designs proclaim the wonders of the BN government in this […]

What Indian Malaysian voters want

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 22, 2010 5 Comments

INDIAN Malaysian voters are said to be the deal-breakers in the Hulu Selangor by-election, according to one view. They comprise 12,453 or 19.3% of the total 64,500 voters in this parliamentary seat. In the 2008 general election, 51% of their votes went to the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate, Datuk G Palanivel from MIC. Palanivel lost […]

On the Hulu Selangor trail

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 21, 2010 1 Comment

CAMPAIGNING is in full swing in Hulu Selangor with senior Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat leaders speaking at multiple rallies every night, calling for support from voters. Here are some pictures and observations from the ceramah trail. See other Multimedia Galleries See also: Irrelevant PR rhetoric Is Zaid’s drinking relevant? Campaign delusions and contradictions Hulu […]

Irrelevant PR rhetoric

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 21, 2010 4 Comments

BUKIT SENTOSA, 21 April 2010: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders are working hard for votes in Hulu Selangor. But their campaign rhetoric is not necessarily chaste or relevant to the constituency.  “There was no tear, blood or scar in [Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan]’s anus, he’s still a virgin. So how was he sodomised? Maybe online? Or […]

Hulu Selangor’s significance

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 19, 2010 5 Comments

Updated 10.55am, 19 April 2010 BN candidate P Kamalanathan (left) and PKR candidate Datuk Zaid Ibrahim HULU Selangor, the 10th by-election since national polls in March 2008, is a fight neither the Barisan Nasional (BN) nor Pakatan Rakyat (PR) can afford to lose. The BN needs to prove its sincerity about its rhetorically inclusive 1Malaysia […]

Hulu Selangor’s four-corner fight

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 17, 2010 Leave a Comment

(Updated at 6:50pm, 17 April 2010) THE Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election will be a four-corner fight between the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s “compromise candidate” P Kamalanathan, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)’s Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, and two independents. The pro-reform Zaid, 59, and the MIC’s information chief Kamalanathan, 44, will be the key rivals to watch. But the […]

By-elections and bumiputeraism

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | April 16, 2010 10 Comments

Corrected at 2.59pm, 16 April 2010 WHILE by-elections can hardly be considered referendums, they are nevertheless mid-term elections and often have far-reaching implications. The triple by-elections of April 2009 Remember the triple by-elections of April 2009? What if newly-minted premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak‘s Barisan Nasional (BN) had won all three handsomely? Would he then […]

Perak’s tarnished state

[get_post_meta single=1 key="byline"] | October 30, 2009 14 Comments

SAME circus, different act. The dramatic highlight of the Perak legislative assembly sitting on 7 May 2009 was the violent removal of Speaker V Sivakumar by police officers. The highlight of Wednesday’s 28 Oct sitting was the simultaneous running of two separate assemblies under the same roof. Was anything achieved? Sure, Barisan Nasional (BN) passed […]

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