Riot police line up against a wall of Pas supporters along a street in Permatang Pasir – Photo courtesy of Wartawan Rasmi Laman Reformasi
A crowd of about 3,000 attended the final ceramah at the Permatang Pasir Pas markas last night – Photos by Anil
As at 11.00am, 39 per cent of registered voters have cast their ballots.
Live coverage in Malay from Permatang Pasir here.
Live coverage in English begins on this website at 4.00pm.
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Time for Malaysians to wash out the BN/UMNO regime once again. Let Najib’s so called 1 Malaysia version be only his version. The people are no longer interested with all this flowery motto.
Mr Koh Tsu Kung,you really likes a ….When Muyidin smile you smile,he laugh u laugh,he bend u follow.You are …. without… selfrespect. I pity u being human or man live in such way is meaningless.(I see picture at malaysiakini)
Undilah PAS
My prediction:
PAS will win by 7000++ majority
P/S: Penan children are starving. For donation information see here http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/how-many-anak-bangsa-malaysia-must-die-before-you-are-moved/
HIDUP PAKATAN RAKYAT,HIDUP PAS,PKR,DAP…..HIDUP MALAYSIA BARU….ANWAR BOLEH
MIC President Semi Value said the kingmakers in the current Permatang Pasir by-election are the Indian voters. There are 350 Indian voters in a poll of 20,000 voters lah, Semi!
It time to show what 1Malaysia mean! Vote PAS overwhelmingly and show Najib that 1Malaysia is just an illusion, no?
What is there to be 1Malaysia when Utusan is fanning racial sentiment? What is there to be 1Malasia when we cannot be on the same footing?
Chloe Martin Lee
Han 2,
Samy Vollu is day dreaming. Dont be surprise if he say the indian voters are the kingmakers in general election. (Many) Indian through out the country (react with disgust) even if anyone mentioned his name. Im an indian this is fact. Indian nowdays believe that Tok Guru Nik Aziz than these…
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BN supporters shout ‘hidup Melayu’, Koh Tsu Koon smile & walk next to DPM?
Even as a Melayu, I think KTK is a running…
A pity. He showed some grace in the first few weeks after 308, after which it is downhill all the way…
Dont be too over confident of the big win.
There are still many voters who are emotionaly weak
whom can be easily influenced.
We are not the voters overthere so we just hope for a win for the righteous. We dont need corruptors to rule
the constituency.
Stay in humility …A win is a win .No sour grape.
A big win for Pas is of course most welcomed .
A big Win will show that the racial and religion
tension is nothing but a political agenda to disdrupt unity.
Samy jgn lah bodek banyak2 350 voters penentu mehhhh nak jadi pembodek bleh lah.
Reply to lakian’s Post:
At least im the senator cum minister in the PM’s office, what about u? What do you have? you jealous or what? Or because your life is just like a … hiding behind the blog? No need for you to pity anyone in the BN’s strong leadership.
Low turnaout by chinese voters has been reported from the ground. We need them to esnure Pakatan Rakyat winning PP by-election. Help !!!!!
People of Permatang Pasir. Give PAS a big win to show that you reject BN’s racial politics and tainted candidates. Send the … packing!
Muhyddin: Wind of change is blowing in Ptg Pasir.
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Yes indeed. It will blow BN into the cesspool where they rightly belong.
If bn loses they will come out with:
1) “I told you so” phantom voters.
2) Low voter turnout is not representative of the electorate.
3) Personnal attacks by the opposition.
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If they win they will say:
1) winds of change blowing.
2) voters are more mature.
3) Prove that people are getting tired of opposition politicking.
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Muhyiddin, your Mission Impossible could not be accomplished again. … a seventh big golden egg without turning the people of Permatang Pasir into a Golden Boy. Next time, think and try harder on your Mission Impossible with another new idea.
LIM Guan Eng still has the support. He handled the Kampung Buah Pala squatters very well…imagine helping the squatters from an attap house to a double storey concrete house!!!
TOL = temporary occu…, mind the word TEMPORARY!!!
bn can start dreaming about winning GE13. Lunas YB please resign so that we can see another defeat for BN.
Congratulation to PAS!
Another handsome win.
I can’t wait for next GE.
UMNO , u can win .. just field a candidate in sabah sarawak ….
Murid murid .. sila beratur dan keluar barisan .. mari masuk bulatan …
Thank you Anil for the job well done again!
Insyallah, we’ll meet again soon in Perak or at Kedah’s Kota Siputeh.
Congrats PAS and Pakatan. The wind of change will not stop. Pakatan should now scout for more credible people to become candidates for the next GE. Looks like UMNO’s strategies have backfired again. UMNO and BN have yet to learn. Their controlled media hardly showed PAS’ candidate. They were continuosly featuring the BN candidate. The people switched off their TV and hardly read Utusan, NST and The Star. What happened to the ‘pengkhianat’ issue? It backfired. That guy from Lunas who quit PKR trying to be a hero? The people were laughing at him. Anyway, let him stand for election comes the next GE. See if he wins. Khairy’s rhetoric? Nobody listens to him, anyway. DAP and Islam issue? The people did not buy this cheap thrill. So, what is left for UMNO? Nothing.
Now the score on the scoreboard is 7-1
Lets console BN that PAS also lost, in a way.
In the March 2008 election – PAS secured 65.5% of the 16803 votes cast.
In the by-election thsi time, it secured 64.8% of the 14832 votes cast.
PAS’ majority over UMNO has reduced by 0.7% this time.
A very commendable effort by UMNO, using the might of the mainstream media and Patriot Bloggers like Parpukari, Shamsul Yunos and RockyBru.
Anyway, it was only in this by-election, the rakyat knew the following UMNO wisdoms:
a. That fines by Bar Council were like fines for parking offences
b. That it was not wrong to marry a second wife secretly and not telling about it to the first wife.
c. When misappropriated funds are subsequently settled, then there is no element of fraud. (Courts -not the one selling furnitures but the institutions that administer justice, please take note of this drift)
Other observations:
a. BN’s Accusation of 3696 phanthom voters
Even if 3696 phanthom voters had cast their votes and the votes were rejected from the total of 9618 votes cast for PAS, its new tally would have been 5922, which would have 855 votes higher than what UMNO secured. So PAS will still be the winner.
b. Bernama reported that PM also took note of the fact that the BN managed to reduce PAS’ majority in the area. He conveniently forgot that BN’s own vote bank had reduced from 5571 in 2008 to 5067 this time, a reduction of 504 votes from its 200 tally representing almost 11%, despite using all main stream media to its advantage, assisted by Patriotic Bloggers like Parpukari (whose language stinks – even during Ramadan).
This seems to be a perennial problem in UMNO.
Cannot see deterioration of its own influence, but quick to compare its impact on the other party.
Can UMNO take note and tell the big bosses?
A post-mortem is scheduled to be done by UMNO.
There you go again. UMNO only. Its not a BN post-mortem.
So the remaining component parties are not relevant in this ‘post-mortem’?
What is this 1Malaysia all about then? Cannot even discuss defeat together?
Where is collective responsibility of the BN? Talk only?
No wonder, the public are getting fed-up with the BN rhetorics.
And BN never learns!
p.s : Anil, what happended to the planned meeting on 25 Aug 2009 between Kg Buah Pala folks and the UMNO chap? Another playout? Pity them. They seem to fall for anyone and everyone ranging from Uthayakumar, Thiruvengadam, T Mohan, UMNO and those who ‘instigate’ them.
The Kg Buah Pala folks cannot learn even now, to be consistent and work with only one party?
Kg Buah Pala? Our Indians brothers are only good at trying to outshine each other politicking for self interest and at the end of the day the residents here are left with nothing. If only they they had sat together and thought for the poor and helpless among them, the community would have been more enlightened. Lim of Penang did his best to help them. No, that was not enough. Groups and individuals among Indians condemned him thinking that Lim would change the world for them. They thought Lim would cave in just for a few votes from the Indians. However, he did his best as the CM of Penang. If only our Indian brothers have a little patient and acumen for an intelligent appraisal of what their community is facing, discuss matters in a matured way … the plight of some of their people will be handled wisely. Remember that you are a minority. Learn to be smart like the other races. Educate yourselves, stay away from alcohol, cherish your beautiful culture of thousands of years, live by the phiilosophy of your religion (not just the rituals)…. you all will come up in life. If you all listen to this advice, ten years from now you will see a successful Indian community in Malaysia – Indians who are Malaysians and who are patriotic to the nation. Indians who are not just recruited into political parties to put up posters to promote other interested parties.
Congratulations to PR and PAS for winning the Permatang Pasir by-election and for maintaining their strong hold over this state seat.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.