Penang state election predictions and poll

In six separate posts, I will be asking two pundits about their personal predictions on the outcome of the 12 August elections in six states.

First let me introduce these two, one from Pakatan Harapan and the other from Perikatan Nasional. Emen Jamal is the Tasik Gelugor PKR information chief while Abdul Rahman Kasim is the Tasik Gelugor Pas information chief.

Selangor state election predictions and poll

Today, we will look at the upcoming Selangor state election.

In the 2018 state election, Pakatan Harapan won 51 seats out of 56 (63.4% of the popular vote, including Bersatu’s 5.6%), Umno-Barisan Nasional picked up four (21.9%), and Pas just one (14.4%).

Kedah state election predictions

Tonight, we will look at the upcoming Kedah state election.

In the 2018 state election, Pakatan Harapan won 18 seats out of the 36 seats (36.5% of the popular vote, including Bersatu’s 12.2% or five seats), Barisan Nasional picked up three (29.6%), and Pas won 15 seats (33.7%).

Negri Sembilan state election predictions

Today, we will look at the upcoming Negri Sembilan state election.

In the 2018 state election, Pakatan Harapan won 20 seats out of 36 (53.9% of the popular vote, including Bersatu’s 5.4%), Barisan Nasional picked up 16 (37.8%), and Pas failed to win a single seat (7.5%).

Terengganu state election predictions

Tonight, we will look at the upcoming Terengganu state election.

In the 2018 state election, Pas won 22 seats out of the 32 seats (50.5% of the popular vote), Barisan Nasional picked up 10 (42.2%), and Pakatan Harapan failed to win a single seat (7.3% including Bersatu’s 1.8%).

Kelantan state election predictions

Tonight, we will look at the upcoming Kelantan state election.

In the 2018 state election, Pas won 37 seats out of the 45 seats (52.0% of the popular vote), Barisan Nasional picked up eight (37.6%), and Pakatan Harapan failed to win a single seat (10.0% including Bersatu’s 2.4%).

Penang fisherfolk issue five demands to candidates

The Penang Fisherfolk’s Association (Pen Mutiara) was established under the Fishermen’s Association Act 1971, over fifty years ago.

It is an organisation that has the legal responsibility to represent and protect the rights and wellbeing of 6,000 fisherfolk in Penang.

Kudos for scrapping Selangor’s PJD Link highway; now stop Penang’s mega-reclamation!

Aliran has just released the following statement:

Aliran is overjoyed by the Selangor government’s decision to scrap the controversial Petaling Jaya Dispersal Link (PJD Link) highway project.

It is a victory for the PJ residents who have campaigned tirelessly against this 34km highway project.

After SRS’ ‘PTMP’ flops, Penang needs a sustainable mobility masterplan

Penang Forum has just released this statement in response to the proposal for a state-wide “LRT” system.

Penang Forum welcomes the federal government’s intervention in coming up with a more comprehensive public transport network for the entire state of Penang.

According to Transport Minister Anthony Loke, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has pointed out that mainland Penang should not be left out of transport infrastructure plans.

Penang: Concerns of maldevelopment?

Are civil society’s concerns about Penang’s development trajectory being taken seriously? Are contentious projects an issue that will be on voters’ minds going into the Penang state election?

‘This is not a balanced approach’

Stumbled across a couple of thought-provoking videos by a YouTube user named Poon, who explains why many in Penang shun the existing public transport system.

State polls: Dump racial politics! Let’s talk about the issues that matter

I wrote the article below together with Aliran’s Dr Mustafa K Anuar. Here’s where you add your comments on the upcoming state elections.

No sooner had the last of the six state assemblies been dissolved than Dr Mahathir Mohamad popped up to claim that the effort to promote a multi-ethnic country goes against the Federal Constitution!

Penang’s mega-reclamation: Don’t jump the gun! Wait for outcome of fishermen’s appeal

The latest statement from the Penang-based Sahabat Alam Malaysia:

Sahabat Alam Malaysia was surprised to read a media report quoting Gamuda Bhd as saying that the “Penang South Reclamation” project will begin on 1 July. This is because the fishermen’s appeal has not yet been heard and decided.

Kanason Pothinker’s frantic final call

The former assistant auditor general of Malaysia, Kanason Pothinker, passed away on 9 June, with hardly any public notice.

It was a strange feeling for me: I had got so used to hearing about his concerns that the final silence left a sense of unfinished business.

Independence era politician Lim Kean Chye of Penang dies

Lim Kean Chye has passed away in Penang at the age of 103.

‘Die, die’ Penang must have ‘LRT’ – Really?

I wrote this piece together with Chuah Chong Lai mainly to explain that there are other cheaper, quicker and more effective transport options for Penang.

Penang’s mega-reclamation project does not jive with Madani principles

The heat is on. This morning CAP held a press conference, as the pressure intensifies for the ecologically damaging project to be scrapped.

Shocking federal approval for artificial islands in Penang

This conditional ‘approval’ is being given just a few months before the state election in Penang. It is shocking. Whoever is responsible for this doesn’t give a hoot about the damage it will cause to fisheries and food security. Plus the whole basis of the so-called PTMP (the extravagant Penang transport master plan) is gone.

Choice of Energy Commission chairman puts him in serious conflict-of-interest situation

It’s good that Anwar says he plans to look into this. But how could such an appointment be made in the first place? Aliran has released this statement:

Aliran is alarmed by the recent appointment of a senior executive from Gamuda Bhd as the chairman of the Energy Commission, the country’s national energy regulator.

Gamuda group deputy managing director Rashdan Yusof was appointed as the head of the commission with effect from 15 February.

Najib deserves to remain in prison! Desist from steamrolling pardons process

Aliran has just released this statement:

Umno appears to be in a hurry to push for an early pardon for convict Najib Razak using as its basis the sole dissenting judgment against the guilty verdicts of 13 other judges at the High Court, the Court of Appeals and in two Federal Court panels.