Election 2008: Nomination Day News

Latest News - February 25, 2008


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Latest News - Nomination Day February 24, 2008


Pas grabbed the Kijang state seat in Kelantan, through its woman candidate Wan Ubaidah Omar.


PAS memenangi kerusi Dun pertamanya di Parlimen Pengkalan Chepa tanpa bertanding melalui calonnya di Dun Kijang oleh Bekas Senator Wan Ubaidah Wan Omar setelah calon Barisan Nasional Mustopha Ahmed disahkan bankrup -pasonline.

Seven up for BN, Pas grabs one state seat in Kelantan

Pas unexpectedly grabbed the Kijang state seat in Kelantan, through its woman candidate Wan Ubaidah Omar.

Prior to dissolution of the state assembly, Pas controlled 23 seats to BN's 22.

Bearing in mind that delicate balance and with this shocked loss, BN's hopes of recapturing the Kelantan Government is now at risk while Pas' position is solidified.

BN candidates who parliamentary seat uncontested


1. Datuk Azalina Othman Said - P157 Pengerang, Johor (Umno)

2. Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh - P191 Kalabakan, Sabah (Umno)

3. Norah Abdul Rahman - P206 Tanjung Manis, Sarawak (PBB)

4. Aaron Ago Dagang - P210 Kanowit, Sarawak (PRS)

5. Joseph Entulu Belaun - P214 Selangau, Sarawak (PRS)

6. Alexander Nanta Linggi - P215 Kapit, Sarawak (PBB)

7. Tan Sri Joseph Kurup - P182 Pensiangan (PBRS)

In the 2004 polls, BN won 14 parliamentary and seven state seats uncontested on Nomination Day.


Latest News - February 23, 2008


The gloves come off today - and the scramble for the 10.9 million Malaysian votes begins in earnest. A total of 222 nomination centres will be opened this morning for candidates, who have been posturing for weeks, to file their papers for 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats.

Although candidates can only officially start their campaigning after 1pm today, the political bombs and accusations have been hurled since Parliament and 12 state assemblies were dissolved on Feb 13.

However, till late last evening, some aspirants were still lobbying to get into the list of candidates on both sides of the political divide. And the acrimony that comes with being dropped seems more intense than ever before.


Latest News - February 23, 2008


Disappointed supporters of dropped candidates throng PM's residence



Disappointed supporters of dropped candidates have started converging at the Prime Minister's Department. Even the prime minister's official residence, Komplek Sri Perdana, was not spared.

On Thursday, four buses, carrying 240 supporters of an MP whose name was not in the list, arrived at Sri Perdana at 10.30pm last night. One of the buses headed towards the PM's Department but was told to leave by security and police officers.

The bus later joined the others at Sri Perdana and the group, including some children, only left after a representative handed over a memorandum to an officer in the PM's Department, 10 minutes before midnight.

Over at the Prime Minister's Department, about 40 supporters of a Menteri Besar started "camping" outside the guardhouse. When the Menteri Besar left the building at 11pm, the vehicles, mostly luxury cars, also left.

This "unsightly" sight is expected to prevail until tomorrow, which is the nomination day


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Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's opposition party will contest about half of the 222 parliamentary seats in Malaysia's general elections in a bid to make a strong comeback after its stinging defeat in the last polls when it won only one seat.

The People's Justice Party is looking to challenge the ruling coalition in about 100 parliamentary seats in the March 8 elections, though no final numbers have been announced yet, party general secretary Khalid Ibrahim said Thursday.

He said the party expects to win at least 30 seats with the help of campaigning by Anwar, who was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998 after a political fallout with then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Anwar also was expelled from the United Malays National Organization, the main party in the ruling National Front coalition, and set up the People's Justice Party.

"Anwar attracts a lot of supporters and sympathizers," Khalid told The Associated Press. "Anwar will be bringing a new hope into the politics of Malaysia."

Once considered a future prime minister, Anwar's fortunes plunged when Mahathir accused him of corruption and sodomy. He was convicted of the charges and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was released in 2004 after the sodomy charges were overturned by a higher court.

Anwar maintains he was a victim of a political conspiracy because he challenged Mahathir.

Although he was cleared of the sodomy charge, the corruption conviction barred him from contesting in elections until April this year. Anwar says Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who succeeded Mahathir in 2003, called elections in March to prevent him from contesting.

The National Front coalition, which won 199 parliamentary seats in a landslide victory in 2004, is expected to easily return to power but with a reduced majority given frustrations over inflation, rising crime and ethnic tensions.

Some observers say Anwar also no longer holds sway over the masses as he used to when tens of thousands took to the streets after his arrest and trial.

Malaysia's main opposition Democratic Action Front, or DAP, is expected to put up candidates for about 50 other seats, which will not overlap with Anwar's party, general-secretary Lim Guan Eng said. DAP now has 12 seats in Parliament.

The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, is eyeing about 65 seats, but opposition parties are still holding last-minute negotiations ahead of Sunday's nominations on collaborating to avoid multi-cornered fights, according to its general secretary, Kamarudin Jaffar.


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Cili Padi Fong Po Kuan has returned to the frontline of the 2008 “Electoral Battle of the Century” – to end the overpowering UMNO political hegemony by denying the Barisan Nasional its unbroken two-thirds parliamentary majority in the March 8 general election.

The past six days since Po Kuan’s announcement that she would not recontest in Batu Gajah parliamentary seat had been an agonizing ordeal for Po Kuan, party leaders, members, supporters and the Malaysian public who see the general election as the last opportunity for change and the nation’s tryst with greatness.

Whether at the national or state party leadership, there had never been a second name for the DAP candidature for Batu Gajah in the 12th general election apart from Po Kuan. All party and state leaders, together with the concerned Batu Gajah voters and the larger national constituency, had urged Po Kuan to reconsider and return to the frontline in the critical battle shaping up in the 12th general election.

One cannot run away from the reality that Po Kuan’s action had caused harm and damage to herself, the party and the cause for justice, freedom and democracy – although she never intended so.

I have had discussions with Po Kuan in the past two days and she had admitted to the great harm her action had unintentionally and unwittingly caused to the party, party leaders and the political momentum for change in the 12th general election, and she asks for the party and people’s forgiveness for her mistake.

She has now bounced back to the frontline of the Electoral Battle of the Century and will reconstest and defends the Batu Gajah parliamentary seat.

In our discussions, we agreed that to should look forward and not back, that everyone should single-mindedly focus on one and only objective – to give a great blow to the increasing and overpowering UMNO political hegemony marginalizing not only the other Barisan Nasional component parties, but also the ordinary Malaysian masses, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazan-Dusun-Murut, Ibans and Sarawak indigenous people as well as orang asli in Peninsular Malaysia.

With Po Kua’s return to the frontline of the battle, let us make up precious lost ground and enter into the 12th election campaign with gusto and confidence, vigour and vitality.

Cili Padi FPK is back!