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60% say PKR won’t be affected in next GE

Mar 032010

An ntv7 poll over the news tonight asked viewers if they thought PKR’s performance in the next general election would be affected by the recent defections.

The results were surprising: 60 per cent responded ‘No’, the party’s performance won’t be affected, with just 40 per cent saying ‘Yes’, it will be.

All right, let’s do our own poll then.

Will PKR's performance in the next general election be affected by recent defections?

No (84%, 2,281 Votes)
Yes (14%, 380 Votes)
Don't know (2%, 59 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,716

Rousing reception for Pakatan’s Sabah CNY bash

Accountability, Ethnic and inter-religious relations, M'sian politics 23 Responses »

Feb 282010

Pakatan leaders, euphoric over the turnout at their Lunar New Year open house in Kota Kinabalu, have told Sabahans that their state could play a leading role in changing the political landscape of the country.

A sea of people packed the hall – Photo via Tian Chua

The turnout this afternoon was “overflowing”, observed Lim Kit Siang, noting that Anwar Ibrahim arrived to a “riotous welcome”.

It is a “sign of the times (for) Sabah, Malaysia”, said Kit Siang.

Zahrain quits PKR: No sad loss

Democracy, Development issues, M'sian politics 26 Responses »

Feb 122010

So Bayan Baru MP Zahrain has quit PKR. All I can say it’s no sad loss for the party – and instead it’s a blessing in disguise for Pakatan.

Quite a few Penangites are familiar with Zahrain and his Penang Port background, apart from the current controversy surrounding the golf club tender.

How did he get selected as an election candidate in the first place? Pity the voters of Bayan Baru who opted for change.

According to a well-placed PKR source, Zahrain, who is (was?) an old friend of Anwar’s, was likely to face punishment – probably suspension or the sack – by the PKR disciplinary committee, which was due to deliver its decision next week. And he would have seen the writing on the wall. “We are not afraid of losing people who do not share our vision or principles,” said the source.

Feeling the heat: Not just PKR but Ong, Koh too

M'sian politics 30 Responses »

Oct 302009

While the front pages of the newspapers today are all about Badrul Hisham quitting PKR and how PKR is supposedly on the verge of a meltdown, BN component parties too are feeling the heat.

In particular, MCA president Ong Tee Keat and Gerakan chief Koh Tsu Koon have been under pressure to call it a day. The latest broadside came not from opposition ranks but from a BN back-bencher in Parliament yesterday. (Did he receive the green light from the top?)

Why Pakatan lost in Bagan Pinang

Housing, M'sian politics, Malaysian elections, Marginalised groups, Workers' rights 128 Responses »

Oct 132009

The Pakatan needs to carry out a serious postmortem to find out why and how it was thrashed in Bagan Pinang.

Posters of the Kg Buah Pala demolition were found around Ladang Siliau in Bagan Pinang on nomination day – Photo by Tiger

In some ways, the BN victory was not unexpected. Perhaps the scale of the defeat surprised many. But a few keen political analysts noticed something amiss ahead of polling day and predicted that Isa would win comfortably as noted in my post here.

So far, many have pointed to some obvious reasons for the BN’s landslide win:

Pull factors:

Isa was a popular, well-known – albeit tainted – local candidate.
Bagan Pinang is an Umno stronghold.
All kinds of promises and enticements were made, especially to army personnel about improved facilities.
Questions about the postal balloting system persisted.
And of course, the mainstream media were used in the campaigning (but then the last three points were no different from previous by-elections – except there were more postal ballots here).

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