‘Campaign strategy did not cause defeat’

Anisah Shukry | May 21, 2013

PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat lost the general election due to electoral fraud and an uneven playing field, and not because of its campaign strategy, leaders of the opposition pact insisted today.

PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli said the party’s campaign strategy played a small role in the general election, and what tipped the polls in Barisan Nasional’s favour was rampant “money politics, bribery, access to media and phantom voters”.

The Pandan MP was responding to the Malaysian Election Observers Network’s (Meonet) statement that Pakatan’s loss was solely due to its inability to penetrate BN’s rural vote bank, particularly in Sabah and Sarawak.

Voting denial proves phantom voters, integrity of ICs in doubt, says Rafiz

By Ida Lim

PETALING JAYA, May 20 — PKR’s Rafizi Ramli today offered evidence of phantom voters, which he alleged was widespread fraud that could potentially “discredit” the recently-concluded general election, besides putting the integrity of Malaysia’s identity cards (IC) in doubt.

“The moment you have similar IC used by different people, so much so that the genuine or actual person proving the identity is denied to vote, that means this is part of a bigger planning to allow phantom voters to come in,” the PKR strategy director said at a press conference.

Government company applauds Cabinet appointment in full-page ads, draws flak

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 — The government company set up to build affordable homes for the lower-income group was criticised today after it paid for full-page advertisements in Umno’s Utusan Malaysia and the MCA’s The Star to congratulate Datuk Husni Hanadzlah on his reappointment as second finance minister.

The advertisements by Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) feature a colour photograph of Husni and is from the board of directors, management and staff.

According to an official from The Star, SPNB was charged RM59,529.60 for the advertisement. An Utusan Malaysia official said the advertisement cost about RM37,000. 

DAP slams Zahid’s ‘arrogance and contempt’ for unhappy Malaysians

By Boo Su-Lyn

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is denying Malaysians the right to a better voting system by telling them to migrate if they are unhappy with Malaysia’s first-past-the-post system, the DAP’s Tony Pua said today.

The DAP publicity chief pointed out that although the first-past-the-post system allows political parties or coalitions to win elections despite losing the popular vote, Malaysia’s electoral boundaries “have been excessively corrupted over the past decades”.

Most unimpressive Cabinet of all six Prime Ministers in the nation’s 56-year history

Lim Kit Siang

The Cabinet unveiled by Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday is the most unimpressive Cabinet of all six Malaysian Prime Ministers in the nation’s 56-year history.

It has in fact accentuated the great divide between Pakatan Rakyat and the Barisan Nasional in the recent 13th General Elections – that Pakatan Rakyat holds out hope and a vision of new politics for Malaysia while Barisan Nasional represent the old, tired and discredited politics of race, fear, corruption, abuses of power and injustices.

Alam sekitar: Dunia baru PAS

Huzir Sulaiman,17 Mei 2013

Tidak ada sesiapa yang menjangka rahmat di sebalik keputusan pimpinan PAS Pusat untuk memisahkan Lajnah Pengguna Dan Alam Sekitar kepada dua lajnah dua tahun yang lalu.  

Mungkin insiden tanah runtuh di Hulu Langat pada Mei 2011 telah mendesak PAS untuk lebih memberikan tumpuan yang khusus kepada isu Alam Sekitar di seluruh negara agar insiden yang berkait-rapat dengan kemusnahan alam sekitar sehingga menjejaskan Keselamatan dan Kesihatan rakyat dapat dicegah terlebih awal dan bukan sebaliknya. 

Himpunan Black505 gempur N Sembilan, Kedah, T’ganu & Melaka

(Kenyataan Rafizi Ramli, Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN merangkap Ahli Parlimen Pandan)

Gelombang #Black505 demi menzahirkan suara bantahan rakyat menentang penipuan pilihan raya diteruskan di negeri-negeri Kedah, Terengganu, Melaka dan Negeri Sembilan.

#Black505 yang seterusnya akan diadakan di Negeri Sembilan pada Jumaat 17 Mei 2013, bertempat di kawasan parkir Jalan Haruan 4/7, Pusat Komersial Oakland, Seremban. Orang ramai dinasihatkan hadir awal untuk mengelakkan kesesakan.

Tarikh-tarikh bagi #Black505 yang seterusnya adalah seperti berikut:

21 Mei 2013 (Selasa) – Kedah

23 Mei 2013 (Khamis) – Terengganu

24 Mei 2013 (Jumaat) – Melaka

Tempat akhir perhimpunan akan dimaklumkan melalui laman media sosial dan kenyataan rasmi yang akan dikeluarkan oleh KEADILAN.

Semua perhimpunan telah berjalan dengan aman dan mematuhi nasihat Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) walaupun beberapa tempat perhimpunan terpaksa diubah di saat akhir. Penganjur telah menghormati nasihat PDRM untuk menukar tempat perhimpunan di Pulau Pinang, Pahang dan Johor walaupun ia dibuat beberapa jam sebelum perhimpunan.

Ini tidak sedikit pun melemahkan semangat rakyat terutamanya orang muda untuk turun menyuarakan bantahan dalam simbolik #Black505 ini.

Mengikut anggaran kasar penganjur, seramai lebih 400,000 rakyat Malaysia telah menyerti #black505 setakat ini (120,000 – Kelana Jaya, 120,000 – Batu Kawan, 60,000 – Ipoh, 60,000 – Kuantan dan 60,000 – Ulu Tiram).

Saya yakin menjelang minggu depan apabila gelombang #Black505 tiba di Negeri Sembilan, Kedah, Terengganu dan Melaka, lebih setengah juta rakyat Malaysia telah turun menyatakan bantahan terhadap penipuan pilihanraya dan menolak kerajaan tidak sah yang diterajui Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Semangat kerjasama dengan pihak PDRM demi menjamin kelancaran dan keselamatan rakyat akan diteruskan.

Oleh itu, saya menyeru seberapa ramai rakyat untuk turun menyertai #Black505 sebagai bantahan terhadap penipuan pilihan raya dan sokongan kepada reformasi pilihan raya yang perlu diadakan segera.

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Malaysians do not want Anwar to retire, poll results wrong

I refer to a poll published on 16th May which claims that 81 per cent of Malaysians want Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to quit politics. This poll result is completely contradicted by the massive ground support Anwar Ibrahim has been receiving throughout the country since he announced that he would not accept the fraudulent GE results and would fight on to take Putrajaya. This support can clearly be seen in the massive crowds of hundreds of thousands who have come out to greet Anwar at the ongoing rallies across the nation. On social media, in the streets and at public rallies, the majority of the people are united in wanting Anwar to carry on until the job is done.

GE13: You can rule Malaysia with only 17% of the popular vote

It's been more than a week since Malaysia's historic elections ended, and Malaysians are still feeling emotional about it. Some were relieved that the country went through its electoral processes peacefully, while some were angry with the results tabulated in the early hours of May 6. Some even questioned the way the Elections were carried out in the country.

We discovered on Facebook that many users had taken the trouble to tabulate the results of GE13 to learn for themselves, as well as share with others, about what happened on May 5. The terms blackout and phantom voters literally haunted the pages of social networks for days. But one term that was frequently brought up, was gerrymandering, a term used to describe an electoral practice of delineating electoral seats to favour certain parties.

Pakatan usul Konvensyen Perpaduan Nasional tepis perkauman BN

(Oleh Aisha Geoffrey)

PETALING JAYA 14 MEI: Majlis Setiausaha Pakatan Rakyat hari ini mengusulkan agar Konvensyen Perpaduan Nasional diadakan bagi membincangkan isu perpaduan kaum.

Setiausaha Agung KEADILAN, Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail berkata, cadangan itu timbul ekoran situasi selepas pilihan raya yang jelas menunjukkan permainan politik perkauman oleh kerajaan BN dan media kawalan mereka.

“Kita melihat suasana selepas pilihan raya, BN tidak pernah belajar dan keluar dari sentimen politik perkauman,” katanya.

“Oleh itu kita mencadangkan agar diadakan konvensyen untuk membincangkan formula perpaduan yang lebih tulen,” kata Saifuddin pada sidang media di Ibu Pejabat KEADILAN, petang ini.

Menurutnya, Pakatan juga mengajak pemimpin BN supaya menyertai konvensyen itu nanti.

“Kita dari Pakatan mengalu-alukan kebersamaan pemimpin yang boleh diterima rakyat dari BN”.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, cadangan tersebut akan dibincangkan dengan lebih lanjut di peringkat Majlis Presiden yang akan bermesyuarat esok.

Turut hadir, Setiausaha Agung PAS, Datuk Mustaffa Ali; Setiausaha Kelola DAP, Anthony Loke dan Timbalan Penerangan DAP, Zairil Khir Johari.

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