The Penang State Assembly member for Permatang Pasir, Hamdan Abdul Rahman from Pas, passed away at dawn, according to a source in Permatang Pauh who was informed by Hamdan’s personal assistant.
Hamdan, who suffered from heart complications, has been described as “a good man”, concerned about the people’s problems, humble and easily approachable.
Pas has held the Permatang Pasir seat since 1999.
In the 2008 general election, Hamdan had defeated an Umno candidate by a 5,433-vote majority.
If a by-election is held in Permatang Pasir, it would be the third in this part of mainland Penang since the 2008 general election (after the Permatang Pauh parliamentary and Penanti state by-elections).
The state seats of Penanti, Permatang Pasir and Seberang Jaya lie within the Permatang Pauh parliamentary constituency.
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May god bless his soul. A good and kind hearted man in nature.
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Seems the parliamentary seat of Permatang Pauh and the 3 state seats are all jinked for by-elections. Seems that left only the Seberang Prai state seat to go now. Wonder if that will not be jinked?
My condolences to family of Late YB Hamdan.
Guess its time to guage PAS’s recent issues on the “unity Govt” by semi urban voters and this time with more Chinese voters too. Lets wait and see.
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God bless his soul.
May he rest in peace.
Good chance for PR to increase the majority !
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my condolences to the family.
on a lighter note, i’ll be looking forward to another by-election in sbrg jaya in the near future. one more inane entry in the Malaysia Book of Records, for the most number of changes of elected reps by a single parliamentary constituency in a single term…
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Anil, why Pakatan people always die and not BN’s.
Since Beng Hock’s death, i have been praying …
True, no stone will be left unturned. Those involved definitely will meet their Maker very soon.
They can do all sorts of coverups from from the Rakyat but they cant cover God’s eyes. He is watching from a distance.
Watch up, you evil men !!! I believe God is not dead yet !!!
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Yippee!. Another by-election in Penang.
Now we test the voters sentiment again.
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Kick BN’s bottom again.
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My deepest sympathy and condolences to the family.
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EC what this time…blame god why people die????
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good man bade goodbye too soon,may god bless his soul.
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Condolence for the family of the deceased… This is indeed an era of by elections – battlegrounds between people’s power versus oppressive forces. May the people’s power continue to make irrepairable dents to the power craze regime!
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPP ! ! ! ! !
Score 6:1 grenti !
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPP ! ! ! !
Lets TURUN PADANG to ENSURE A CLEAN VICTORY FOR PR
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My deepest condolences to the late YB’s family and may God bless his soul.
This by-election is very intresting as it comes at a very crucial time for both Pakatan and BN. Another factor is that this is being held at Anwar’s home ground of PP and this adds to the already high stakes.
It is a little known secret that the relationship between PAS and PKR in Penang has broken down over the last few months. It is also no secret that PKR Penang is deeply divided with various factions. There is also bound to be intense competition among PAS candidates jockeying for the positions since the winner will be automatically get to occupy lucrative positions within the state govt.
One can expect the Pakatan national leadership to plaster over the cracks in the coalition in the state but how effective it would be is a question mark since the wounds here are pretty deep and recent.
At the same time, expect UMNO to fight with renewed energy after the MU performance and we can expect Muhyideen and Khairy to run an aggressive campaign.
It is hard to predict the outcome. But my view is mood among the Malays here has gone a big change since last year’s PP by-election. Najib’s ascession and other developments have changed the scenario. As such it would be interesting to see the final result. My take is that Pakatan will not able to hold on to their massive majority and the result would be much closer. In fact I would expect a tough fight that could go either way.
I am very much interested to see if LGE would declare a public holiday on the day of election. I would be very much keen to see if the state machinery is again utilised to support the Pakatan candidate as it was the case in the PP by-election.
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My condolence to the family of Late YB Hamdan Abdul Rahman.
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Hamdan was a good man and liked by all – Malays, Chinese and Indians. He was a humble man. He lived to serve the people irrespective of race or religion. His soul will rest in peace.
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First, my deepest condolence to the family .
I bet EC will fix a weekday as the election date and it will be held when the 60 days are almost up….a way to help its “master”. ‘Yes Master. weekday it (probably) shall be and 56 days from vacant date to give u sufficient time… in this buy-election’.
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Dear frens,
This is like playing AWAY from home battle for Pakatan in terms of football…..because incumbent is belong to BN. So is for BN to lose, and Pakatan to gain a seat. So, home ground for BN. I hope Pakatan field very strong line up and big guns for this by election, the main strikers, wingers, midfielders and very able and strong goalkeeper and defenders at the back. So far, Pakatan has all the talent players like in ManYoo, I doubt Muyiddin, Najib make very lineup and more like WestHam…
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