3,000 apply to join PKR By Peter Boon
SIBU: Ngemah assemblyman Gabriel Adit Demong received 3,000 new membership application forms to join Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) here yesterday.
NEW MEMBERS: Goh (right) hands over the membership application forms to Adit (second left) while Munan (second right) looks on at the launch of pro tem committees of PKR sub branches in the Dudong constituency.
Handing the application forms to Adit was Peter Goh, former deputy chairman of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) Nangka division.
Goh joined PKR together with former chairman of PRS Pelawan division Steven Kalai, Bukit Assek division chairman Tuba Aga, and Bawang Assan division chairman Bajai Serang.
Speaking at the launching of PKR protem committees of sub-branches in the Dudong constituency, Adit said that support for PKR throughout Sarawak was growing as people wanted change.
The sub-branches are Aik Dee, Naman, Pak, Menyan, Dudong, Salim, Lada and Usaha Jaya.
Meanwhile, met after the launch, Jimmy Donald, former MP for Sri Aman, said that he expected at least 20,000 former PRS members to join PKR.
Jimmy also said they were joining PKR because they wanted a change.
Asked about his presence here, he said he was in Sibu to render support to Goh.
To a question, he relied: “I will join PKR shortly,” but did not give a specific time frame for such a move.
Earlier, Goh, who was also the organising chairman for the event said: “Today, we announce we join PKR with 3,000 members.”
According to Goh, Dudong constituency has about 24,000 voters comprising 50 per cent Chinese, 45 per cent Iban and five per cent Malay.
Besides giving weight to the on-going membership recruitment drive, he said they would be drawing up programmes and activities to further strengthen the party.
More than 400 PKR supporters attended the function.
Among those present at the function were PKR Sarawak deputy chairman Wan Zainal, vice-chairman Nicholas Bawin, former MP for Lubok Antu Jawah Gerang and Munan Laja.

Jawah Gerang and supporters join PKR

Jawah Gerang and supporters join PKR

Posted By rajlira On 25th December 2008 @ 00:00 In Local

SRI AMAN: Former Lubok Antu MP Jawah Gerang and about a thousand supporters have joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), it was announced here yesterday.


NEW MEMBER: Jawah (second left) handing over his membership application to Salehuddin. At right is Bawin.

Speaking at a press confe-rence held at a local hotel, Jawah announced his decision to join PKR as he handed over his membership application, along with the applications of more than 1,000 others, to PKR secretary general Datuk Salehuddin Hashim.

“My decision to join PKR is not a surprise; neither is it a political gimmick. I join the party on my own free will,” he said.

Others at the conference were state PKR vice chairman Nicholas Bawin Anggat, former Sri Aman MP Jimmy Donald, PKR Betong chief Abang Zulkifli Abang Engkeh and members of PKR Sri Aman and Lubok Antu.

Jawah also revealed that he had already travelled the length and breadth of his former constituency to recruit more members and claimed that the response from the people was “very encouraging”.

He claimed that their members were mostly from the now defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) which was deregistered in 2004.

Jawah who joined Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) after his PBDS’ days was not re-nominated for the Lubok Antu parliamentary seat in the election last March 8.

Jawah’s replacement by William Nyallau Badak did not go down well with the supporters of this five-term MP who had grown from strength to strength – in terms of grassroots support — since his first outing in 1986.

It was, therefore, quite expected of him to claim yesterday that, about 6,000 people from Lubok Antu parliamentary constituency would soon be joining him in PKR “shortly”.

Meanwhile, Jimmy also said about 1,000 people from Sri Aman parliamentary constituency had joined PKR, adding that he had been moving in the constituency to ask his supporters to join the party.

The media members were also told by Bawin that PKR Sri Aman branch had been set up at Jalan Sabu.

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JAWAH GERANG SAH SERTAI PKR


SRI AMAN, Rabu (24 dis) – Bekas Ahli Parlimen P.203 Lubok Antu, Jawah anak Gerang secara rasminya telah menyertai Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) menerusi sebuah majlis yang berlangsung di sebuah hotel tempatan dalam bandar Sri Aman hari ini.

Bekas ahli Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) terbabit sah menyertai PKR setelah menyerahkan borang kemasukan ahli kepada Setiausaha Agung parti berkenaan iaitu Dato Salehuddin Hashim pada jam 12 tengahari hari ini.

Jawah ketika bercakap kepada para pemberita menerusi sidang media sebaik sahaja selesai majlis menjelaskan bahawa beliau menyertai PKR setelah tidak mendapat tempat dalam mana-mana komponen parti Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam negeri ini.

“Saya gagal mendapat tempat dalam Parti Demokratik Rakyat Sarawak (SPDP) sebelum ini dan juga tidak diterima dalam Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB).

“Lebih-lebih lagi apabila parti Kongres Dayak Malaysia (MDC) dahuli tidak terima pendaftarannya oleh Pendaftar Pertubuhan (ROS) saya akhirnya nekad untuk menyertai parti ini (PKR),” jelas beliau.

Selain itu beliau juga mendakwa bahawa PKR adalah sebuah parti yang sensitif terhadap pelbagai isu berkaitan dengan kebajikan hidup rakyat di negara ini berbanding dengan kerajaan yang sedia ada pada masa sekarang.

Sambil mendakwa BN adalah sebuah kerajaan yang angkuh, Jawah yakin PKR akan mampu menjaga kebajikan hidup rakyat sekiranya mereka mampu memerintah negeri ini menjelang pilihanraya akan datang.

“PKR mempunyai polisi pembangunan yang bersesuaian untuk rakyat di negeri ini. Atas sebab ini saya telah bertindak menyertai PKR dan permohonan saya ini nampaknya diterima baik oleh mereka,” katanya

Bekas Ketua UMNO Bahagian Petaling Jaya Selatan Sertai Pakatan Rakyat

Bekas ketua bahagian Umno Petaling Jaya Selatan, Datuk Zahar Hashim - yang mendedahkan isu pembelian helikopter Eurocopter - secara rasmi menyertai PAS hari ini.

Beliau telah menyerahkan borang keahliannya kepada Timbalan Presiden PAS, Nasharuddin Mat Isa di satu majlis yang diadakan di sebuah hotel di Ampang pagi ini.

Turut hadir pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor, Datuk Dr Hasan Ali.

Zahar digantung jawatan ketua Umno bahagian awal bulan ini kerana mengkritik pemimpin utama Umno, termasuk mendakwa Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dan timbalannya Datuk Seri Najib Razak menyalahgunakan kuasa dalam satu pertemuan dengan ketua-ketua bahagian di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC).

Dalam ucapannya di majlis tersebut, Zahar berkata, seramai 28 ketua cawangan, dan 13 ahli jawatankuasa bahagian berkenaan juga akan mengikut jejak langkahnya menyertai PAS.

Zahar juga menyumbangkan pejabat Umno bahagian - dipercayai milik beliau sendiri - kepada PAS kawasan tersebut.

Pejabat itu, yang telah ditutup selama tiga minggu, akan dibuka semula besok dan kakitangan di situ akan turut bekerja bagi pihak parti barunya.

Zahar berkata beliau akan bersama jentera PAS untuk membantu kempen pilihanraya kecil parlimen Kuala Terengganu, yang berlangsung antara 6 sehingga 17 Januari ini.

Tambahnya, beliau akan mula berkampung di kawasan itu sepanjang kempen mulai 5 Januari, sehari sebelum penamaan calon.

Kapten tentera bersara juga menafikan tindakan penggantungan yang diambil oleh Majlis Tertinggi Umno pada 2 Disember lalu sebagai punca yang menyebabkan beliau melompat parti.

Sejak keputusan pilihanraya umum 8 Mac lepas yang menyaksikan ketewasan besar BN di beberapa negeri termasuk Selangor, kata Zahar lagi, beliau bersama para penyokongnya sering memikirkan untuk meninggalkan Umno.

Independent Sarawak assemblyman joins PKR

KUCHING: Padungan assemblyman Dominic Ng Kim Ho will no longer be a “lone ranger” in the State Assembly.

The state PKR chief will have former Independent Ngemah assemblyman Gabriel Adit who has joined the party.

Adit, 58, officially joined PKR during a “Friends of PKR” dinner in Sibu on Saturday.

And the veteran assemblyman is not crossing over alone – he handed over 11,753 applications to PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the event.

A happy Ng said: “(With Adit), I will get at least a seconder in any motion that I table.”

He described Adit, a former vice-president of the now defunct Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), as an experienced politician and good speaker.

Ng said almost all the fresh applicants were Dayaks from the central region.

To prepare for the “influx”, he said the Sarawak PKR was in the midst of setting up division pro tem committees in 20 of the state’s 31 parliamentary constituencies.

“Our target is to have one division in all the parliamentary constituencies by year’s end,” he said.

Ng said Pakatan Rakyat leaders and MPs from the peninsula would visit Sarawak to help build up the party’s strength.

On the state PKR-DAP relationship, he said it had greatly improved and both sides were working in tandem.

He said the presence of Sarawak DAP chairman Richard Wong Ho Leng and his deputy Chiew Chiu Sing at the dinner proved this.

Of the 71 state assembly seats, the DAP holds six, PKR two and one Independent.

- The Star

Adun ketuai 12,000 di S'wak sertai PKR

Adun ketuai 12,000 di S'wak sertai PKR
Tony Thien | Nov 15, 08 10:25pm
Kira-kira 12,000 orang termasuk 6,000 penyokong Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Ngemah, Gabriel Adit, telah memohon untuk menyertai PKR.


Borang permohonan mereka diserahkan kepada Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam satu perhimpunan majlis makan malam di Sibu yang dihadiri oleh lebih 4,000 orang malam ini.


Turut memohon untuk menyertai parti pembangkang itu ialah pemimpin kontroversi yang juga bekas ketua publisiti PRS bahagian Balleh, Beginda Minda.

Beliau keluar dari parti komponen BN itu ekoran desakan terhadap ketua menteri dan timbalan ketua menteri Sarawak supaya mengundur diri.


Adit, 58, mendakwa beliau telah mengemukakan borang permohonan dari 6,000 penyokongnya malam ini untuk menyertai PKR.

Manakala 6,000 lagi permohonan baru dipercayai terdiri daripada bekas ahli-ahli PRS dan yang bukan ahli.

Sarawak PKR gets big boost

http://ctchoolaw.blogspot.com/

Thursday, November 13, 2008
Sarawak PKR gets big boost

Malaysiakini's report that sole Independent state assemblyperson in the Sarawak State Assembly Gabriel Adit has made the crucial decision to join PKR will give a big boost to PKR as it prepares for the next state elections due in 30 months.

The PKR gathering tonight in Sibu, will be a big celebration. PKR has gained very significant inroads into the Dayak community assisted in great measure by the draconian and high-handed attitude of Taib Mahmud and his 29 lame duck Dayak state reps.

I'm sure Malaysiakini will not mind my posting Tony Thien's report in full. I have highlighted in bold the interesting parts of Tony Thien's report:

Adit, 58, is a four-term representative who retained the predominantly-Iban Ngemah seat in the 2006 state election on an independent ticket.
He will officially hand over his membership application form as well as those from his supporters during a 300-table dinner organised by ‘Friends of PKR’ in Sibu on Saturday. Adit is the organising chair of the event.

It is learnt that many members of a Dayak-based state BN component party will also be handing over their application forms to PKR advisor Anwar Ibrahim, the guest-of-honour, for the evening. Several top Pakatan Rakyat leaders from PKR, DAP and PAS as well as their state leaders will be present to witness the event.


Malaysiakini also learnt that Beginda Minda, the ex-publicity chief of PRS president Dr James Masing-led Balleh division who made the news recently with his call on Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu to resign, and his supporters are also expected to join PKR at the function.

Although several leaders of state BN component parties have been reported in a national daily as saying they are not perturbed by the news of Adit’s impending move to join PKR, it has come at a time when there are also reports of groundswell support for PKR, especially in the rural areas.

Most popular party

A Merdeka Centre survey conducted after the March 2008 general election indicates that the most popular party among the Dayaks in Sarawak today is PKR.

There are several reasons why this is so, and among the concerns to Dayaks is the way the present Sarawak government handle the Native Customary Rights (NCR) land issue.

This has seen growing conflict on the ground between NCR landowners and plantation and logging companies and the government and increasing cases of litigation brought before the courts in Sarawak.

Adit was first elected to the state assembly in 1991 and has retained it successfully ever since.

A Canadian graduate in sociology and political science and closely related to former PBDS president and former federal minister Leo Moggie, he is respected within his own community and is known to be patient and not afraid to criticise the state government.


This personality has not endeared him to some top leaders in Sarawak, including the chief minister.

It was hardly surprising that the state BN leadership did not pick him to contest in the last state election which forced him to defend the Ngemah seat as an Independent.

He defeated BN-PRS candidate Alexander Vincent, a Masing relative, by a majority of more than 500 votes.

With Adit joining PKR, the party will now have two state assemblypersons. The other is Dominique Ng who represents the Chinese-majority seat of Padungan.

Adit conceded that there is a limit to what he can do, but by joining PKR he hopes to open the doors for other BN representatives to fight for change which he says looks inevitable, given the growing discontentment among Sarawakians against the state government.

He would not want to say more except that once he is officially in PKR, he will help his colleagues at state and national levels to build up the party’s grassroots where it counts most ahead of the state elections.

Twenty-five minutes too late

Adit told Malaysiakini that over the past several days during the sitting of the state assembly, he was approached by a number of BN representatives who tried to dissuade him from joining PKR after news of his intention leaked.

“I quoted to one of them the title of a Michael Learns To Rock (MLTR) song Twenty-five Minutes Too Late and that I have made up my mind,” he added in jest.

Apart from the Merdeka Centre findings on responses in rural constituencies to PKR, many state BN leaders, especially from the Dayak-based parties, acknowledge the growing anti-BN sentiments on the ground, sparked by issues such as land and certain policies on education and economic opportunities.

But that change may not come easy, with almost everyone acknowledging Taib’s strong and powerful grip on Sarawak’s power politics but one of his senior party colleagues has warned that unless the NCR land issue is resolved, it could potentially become a dynamite to create a political tsunami in the next state election.

But it has been noted that many state BN top leaders appear to be still in a state of denial, believing that under Taib’s leadership the state BN will remain formidable and should be able to remain in power for some time to come.

However, if Adit and more BN elected representatives who, to quote him, have a bitter-sweet experience inside BN, follow him to PKR, that might change the perception.

There are 29 Dayak-majority seats, 27 Malay/Melanau (Muslim)-majority seats and 15 Chinese-majority seats in the 71-seat state assembly.

Presently, DAP has six seats, all Chinese-majority, PKR one Chinese-majority seat and Independents two Dayak seats.

BN’s Sarawak United People’s Party (Supp) could end up even worse in the next state election with the DAP expecting to make further inroads.

PBB’s Malay/Melanau-majority seats may be tough to crack but PKR is confident of giving PBB a run for their money given the known dissatisfaction within the Malay community against the state leadership over a number of issues.

The opposition will have to win half or more of the Dayak seats plus a majority of Chinese seats as well as a number of Malay/Melanau seats to topple the state BN government.

Remove personal differences

PKR’s prospects have been bolstered by a growing number of bumiputera professionals joining the party. It does not lack potentially good candidates to fill the many seats.

Supporters are urging PKR state leaders to remove personal differences and close ranks as well as for the party at the state level to forge a better working relationship with Sarawak DAP.

It’s not clear what role the other state opposition parties Snap and Star will play.

It is possible that if a broader understanding can be reached they will get to contest some seats if the right candidates come around, without opposition parties taking on each other for the same seats.

Learning from past electoral experiences and the need to avoid a clash among themselves, DAP and PKR are likely to agree on seat allocation, especially in Chinese-majority areas.

Sources said that the PKR national leadership want to see the party’s state organisation further strengthened, after Adit’s entry into the party, with strategies more focused on the objectives it has set out to achieve in Sarawak.

The question ahead of the huge Sibu gathering is after Adit’s entry and that of his supporters applying to join the party at the same time, what significant impact will it have especially in the rural areas.

Will, as the Ngemah state representative hopes, it open the doors for not just more BN reps but also the grassroots of other Dayak-based parties to join PKR?

FT Gerakan members defect to PKR

Sunday, September 28, 2008
More Nation Heroz joining Pakatan=)

FT Gerakan members defect to PKR

PETALING JAYA: More than 20 Federal Territory Gerakan members have defected to Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) with “more expected in the coming weeks.”

Former Federal Territory Gerakan information bureau chief Gan Kok Keng said there would be at least 300 members from four divisions joining the opposition party soon.

The divisions involved are the Setiawangsa, Wangsa Maju, Bukit Bintang and Kepong divisions.

Gan, who had been with Gerakan for 24 years, said their desire to leave Gerakan stemmed from the inability of the party to play a meaningful role in Barisan Nasional.

“We have no decision-making powers and have been ignored and insulted many times,” he said.

Gan said what bothered him the most was the belief that the comments of former Bukit Bendera Umno chief Ahmad Ismail was not his own personal opinion but those of the party.

“Gerakan should not be appealing for action to be taken in any scenario but should be asking firmly instead,” he said at a press conference at the PKR headquarters here Sunday.

Also leaving Gerakan for PKR is their former Federal Territories Youth chief Tan Kang Ho, Federal Territories Economic Bureau chief Julian Leong, and Wangsa Maju secretary Azali Omar.

PKR vice-president and Subang Member of Parliament R. Sivarasa said the move by the Gerakan members to join PKR was something that was not easy to do.

“It is brave of them. There was also no offer of money and no discussion about positions in the party,” he said.

Earlier this month, former Segambut MP and Federal Territories Gerakan chief Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong also joined PKR.

http://hopemalaysia.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-nation-heroz-joining-pakatan.html

SAPP Supreme Council declares that SAPP is no longer a member of the Barisan Nasional

Press statement by SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee after the SAPP Supreme Council Meeting at Party HQ, Kota Kinabalu on September 17, 2008 (4:30 pm)




The BN has lost its "BN spirit". It was not that the people who did not want the BN, it was the BN who abandoned the people. In spite of repeated appeals from some BN members to other BN leaders to be more sensitive to the peoples' feelings, these leaders continue to treat the people with contempt. Perhaps, after 50 years of uninterrupted government, some BN leaders have got it in their heads that they have a divine right to rule.


On March 8, the people had spoken out loud and clear. The BN paid a heavy price. But yet the BN refuses to learn. The ruthless increase in fuel prices on June 4 and the failure to tackle inflation and economic slowdown have dealt a severe blow to ordinary people. The recent blatant abuse of the ISA against an innocent journalist, an MP and a blogger only confirms that the BN leadership has not learned from their mistakes. The shameful Taiwan trip by 49 BN MPs and the instigation of racial animosities have aggravated the collapse of confidence among the people and leaders, not only on the PM but the BN as well. The PM's budget 2009 was totally uninspiring and has already been discredited even before it was debated in Parliament. The BN has lost its moral authority to rule. Numerical majority in Parliament means little if the people no longer respect you.


Minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim's resignation only confirms what many lawyers already knew that is that the Prime Minister and his government has never had the intention to reform the judiciary. Datuk Zaid's exposure about "the BN government being paralysed by internal strife and divisions" has also been known to many people in the BN. In many other countries, such paralysis of government will lead to fresh general elections.


The PM himself appeared drifting, not knowing what has been happening around him. SAPP has nothing personal against the PM and family. None of the matters raised by SAPP concerns his person, his family, son, daughter, son-in-law or businesses. SAPP is only concerned about the issues affecting the country such as the need for good governance, the dangers of racial polarization and injustice of economic imbalances to be tackled effectively.


SAPP hereby proudly dissociates ourselves from these shameful wrong doings of the BN government. SAPP further believes that the BN is not capable of practicing good governance and non-racial politics; that BN has no intention in granting autonomy to Sabah, returning 20% of oil royalties and Labuan to Sabah, implement Borneonisation, review unfair federal laws and departments in Sabah, solve the illegal immigrants problems and remove social and economic imbalances. The BN leadership even refused to recognize historical facts by denying September 16 as Malaysia Day, 45 years.



SAPP had only wanted to see that the legitimate rights of Sabah and the unfairness suffered by Malaysians in Sabah be given due attention with results. The BN must realize that, if not for Sabah and Sarawak, BN would be in the opposition today. But instead of sincerely working to solve the issues raised by SAPP, the BN has chosen to embark on a course of action to destroy SAPP. The SAPP Supreme Council hereby condemns the attempts of BN operatives to destroy SAPP through divide and rule tactics and by abusing the economic resources of the BN State and Federal Governments aimed at instigating SAPP members and leaders to destroy SAPP.


As a matter of fact, by deliberately excluding SAPP from four consecutive meetings of the Dewan Tertinggi and two meetings of the Management Committee ever since the announcement of no confidence on the Prime Minister on June 18, the BN has effectively terminated the membership of SAPP. The SAPP Supreme Council hereby declares that SAPP is no longer a member of the Barisan Nasional coalition of parties.


SAPP is now free from the BN. SAPP shall henceforth use this freedom to pursue our autonomous political path to fulfill our mission to establish a trustworthy government and a progressive, just and harmonious society. We are no longer subservient to BN. We now have the master key to our own house. We shall build a brighter future for our people and the younger generations to come.


SAPP members who hold political appointments in the executive branch of Government shall relinquish their posts by giving the due notice under the constitution and relevant rules and regulations, starting at the Cabinet level.


With our experienced MPs, ADUNs and other party colleagues, SAPP shall provide quality opposition in and outside the Parliament and State Legislative Assembly until the time comes when SAPP is ready to be back in government.


I call on our members to be brave. Do not despair. Remember that one of our party culture seven values is Resilience. From the day we join the party, we knew that things can get very rough for us. Yes, together we shall overcome this difficult period because the people are with us. With the strong encouragement and support of the people, SAPP will succeed in our struggle.


In view of the current fasting month of Ramadhan, SAPP shall only embark on a series of political activities two weeks after Hari Raya. We shall plan a road map to victory in future elections. We shall elaborate how we plan to achieve the eight-points declaration, namely:

(i) Good governance and non-racial politics,
(ii) Autonomy for Sabah,
(iii) 20% oil royalties,
(iv) Return of Labuan,
(v) Review of unfair laws and detrimental departments,
(vi) Borneonisation of the federal civil service,
(vii) Solution to the illegal immigrants issue, and
(viii) Redress economic and social imbalances.


Issued by SAPP HQ.

SAPP keluar BN

Sep 17, 08 4:59pm
Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) telah memutuskan untuk keluar dari Barisan Nasional.

Majlis Tertinggi SAPP yang bermesyuarat hari ini, bagaimanapun memutuskan bahawa ia tidak akan menyertai Pakatan Rakyat.

Timbalan Presiden SAPP, Datuk Raymond Tan yang kecewa dengan keputusan itu, telah meninggalkan mesyuarat tersebut.

Katanya, beliau akan meletak jawatan timbalan ketua menteri dan menteri pembangunan infrastruktur negeri.

SAPP mempunyai dua ahli parlimen dan empat anggota dewan undangan negeri.


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Malaysian party quits coalition, PM says may step down earlier
3 hours ago

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia's premier, who is facing an opposition bid to seize power, was hit Wednesday with the departure of a party in his coalition, and said he may step down earlier than planned.

The resignation of the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), which has two lawmakers in parliament, comes after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he has signed up enough defectors to topple the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

SAPP president Yong Teck Lee said the party would become independent and was not applying to join Anwar's three-member Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance, but he launched a withering attack on the government.

"The BN has lost its moral authority to rule," he said of the coalition that has dominated Malaysian politics since independence from Britain.

"Perhaps, after 50 years of uninterrupted government, some BN leaders have got it in their heads that they have a divine right to rule," he said, accusing it of mismanaging the economy and abusing security laws to arrest opponents.

SAPP has been an irritant to the 14-member coalition since June, when it called for a vote of no confidence in Abdullah. Its departure from the coalition was not unexpected.

But its decision was another body blow for an administration that has been in disarray since March elections, which handed the opposition control of five states and a third of parliament -- its best ever result.

Abdullah, who had announced a plan to hand over to his deputy Najib Razak by mid-2010 in an effort to silence calls for his resignation after the polls debacle, said he could depart sooner than planned.

"I will decide when I want to go... I will not be staying more than 2010," he told a press conference on Wednesday.

"If I should want to go earlier, that is flexible. That is the flexibility we have arranged," he said. "It depends on the progress of the role I am giving to Najib. Let's see what he can do."

There had been speculation that Najib and other figures in the ruling party were preparing to challenge Abdullah, whose popularity has tumbled due to a weakening economy and broken promises for reform.

In a move seen as an attempt to quell any rebellion in the ruling party, which will hold leadership elections in December, Abdullah also said he was passing his finance portfolio to Najib with immediate effect.

James Chin, a political analyst from Monash University's campus in Kuala Lumpur, said Abdullah had been forced to rethink the handover date because of a groundswell against him in the ruling party.

"The pressure is building up and it is getting to him," he said.

Anwar said this week that he has the support of more than 31 lawmakers from the coalition, giving him a small majority in parliament.

He has called for a meeting with Abdullah to arrange a smooth transition of power, but the premier has refused and demanded he release the names of the defectors.

Abdullah on Wednesday delivered a warning to Anwar, a former deputy premier who was sacked and jailed a decade ago, accusing him of "lying to the public and confusing the people."

"He has become a threat to the economy and national security," he said in what is a serious allegation in Malaysia, where the government can use draconian internal security laws to detain its opponents without trial.

"I will not indicate what plan I will take, what I do will be in the best interests of the people and the country," Abdullah said.

Chin said the comments were a clear warning that Anwar could face arrest under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

"If they arrest Anwar under ISA it will not be accepted by both Malaysians and the international community," he said.

29 pemimpin BN di NS sertai PKR

29 pemimpin BN di NS sertai PKR
Muda Mohd Noor | Sep 11, 08 3:51pm
Seramai 29 pemimpin cawangan dan bahagian parti komponen Barisan Nasional (BN) termasuk seorang timbalan ketua bahagian Parti Progresif Penduduk (PPP), telah menyertai PKR Negeri Sembilan hari ini.

Seramai 19 pemimpin PPP di peringkat dewan undangan negeri (DUN) di Parlimen Teluk Kemang, yang diketuai oleh timbalan ketua bahagian PPP Teluk Kemang, S Karupusammy, menyerahkan borang keahlian kepada pengerusi PKR Negeri Sembilan, Datuk Kamarul Baharin Abas dalam satu majlis di Seremban pagi tadi.

Turut menyertai PKR hari ini ialah tujuh pemimpin cawangan dan ahli jawatankuasa (AJK) MCA bahagian Seremban, Teluk Kemang, Jempol dan Kuala Pilah.

Selain mereka, tiga AJK cawangan Pemuda Umno di Rembau dan Kuala Pilah, turut berbuat demikian.

Setiausaha PKR Negeri Sembilan, Sabaruddin Mohd Yassin berkata, parti itu mengalu-alukan kemasukan mereka bagi menguatkan kedudukan parti itu di negeri tersebut.

"Kita mengamalkan sikap tangan terbuka dan menggalakkan sesiapa sahaja untuk menyertai PKR.

"Kemasukan Karupusammy penting kerana kekuatan PPP Negeri Sembilan ialah di bahagian Teluk Kemang.

"Berikutan itu, kita menjangka sebahagian besar daripada 2,000 ahli PPP Teluk Kemang, akan menyertai PKR tidak lama lagi," katanya.

Beliau berkata, berdasarkan pengakuan pemimpin berkenaan, lebih ramai ahli ketiga-tiga parti komponen BN itu akan menyertai PKR.

Sabaruddin berkata, kemasukan ahli Umno melalui bahagian PKR di Negeri Sembilan amat menggalakkan.

"Jumlahnya ramai sehingga membimbangkan pemimpin Umno termasuk Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan," katanya.

Menanti detik 16 September Posted by Skuad Dun Batu Caves

Menanti detik 16 September Posted by Skuad Dun Batu Caves
SEPT 6 — "Tidak semestinya 16 September ini bertukar kerajaan, tetapi saya yakin suatu perkara besar akan berlaku 16 September ini," kata Ketua Penerangan PKR, Tian Chua kepada saya pagi semalam ketika kami sama-sama menziarahi jenazah tokoh wartawan negara, Tan Sri Samad Ismail.

Tian Chua secara spontan menyebut hal itu tanpa ditanya secara khusus. Mungkin dia telah faham, semua orang tertanya-tanya apakah akan berlaku pada 16 September ini.

Apakah kerajaan BN akan jatuh dengan digantikan oleh Pakatan Rakyat dan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim akan menjadi perdana menteri pada tarikh itu. Semua orang mahu tahu apakah ia bakal menjadi realiti atau tidak.

Bagi Tian Chua, apa yang berlaku sekarang sekurang-kurang menunjukkan kejayaan bagi pihaknya.

"Kalau selama ini tidak ada orang yang yakin kerajaan akan bertukar 16 September ini, sekurang-kurangnya sekarang, lapan dari 10 orang yang ditanya akan berkata, mereka yakin ia akan berlaku. Ini satu kejayaan bagi kita dalam membina pendapat rakyat. Ini bermakna rakyat sudah bersama kita," kata Tian Chua.

Namun bagi strategis PKR, Saifudin Nasution Ismail, beliau penuh yakin pertukaran kerajaan akan berlaku pada 16 September ini.

Bagi menggambarkan keyakinannyan, Saifudin dengan jelas berkata, "Berdasarkan dokumen yang saya lihat, peristiwa yang saya saksikan, apa yang kami rancangkan, saya yakin ia akan berlaku."

Menurut Saifudin, bilangan anggota Parlimen yang ada untuk membolehkan kerajaan Malaysia yang ada ini bertukar tangan, sudah melebihi dari mencukupi.

Berdasarkan bilangan anggota Dewan Rakyat, Pakatan Rakyat memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 112 dari 222 kerusi yang ada untuk mendapat majoriti mudah bagi membolehkan kerajaan baru dibentuk.

Kini, BN mempunyai 141 kerusi manakala Pakatan mempunyai 81 kerusi. Ini bermakna, Pakatan memerlukan sekurang-kurangnya 30 anggota Parlimen lagi untuk mendapat majoriti mudah.

"Kita (PKR) yakin akan dapat realisasikan rancangan peralihan kerajaan kepada Pakatan Rakyat dengan kemasukkan semula Datuk Seri Anwar ke dalam Parlimen sekarang.

"Kita juga lebih yakin dengan senario itu kerana daripada sumber-sumber tidak rasmi kini sudah ada seramai 43 Ahli Parlimen yang akan menyertai Pakatan Rakyat termasuk di kalangan MP Terengganu," kata Ketua Angkatan Muda PKR Terengganu, Faris Musa sebagaimana dilaporkan Harakadaily.

Itu adalah sikap dan pandangan pemimpin PKR. Bagaimana pula dengan rakan-rakannya dalam Pakatan Rakyat.

Pesuruhjaya Pas Negeri Sembilan, Zulkefli Mohd Omar memberikan tiga sebab kenapa kerajaan BN akan jatuh pada 16 September ini. Beliau juga menunggu jatuhnya kerajaan Negeri Sembilan yang ada ekoran krisis dalaman mereka. Pakatan Negeri Negeri Sembilan memerlukan tiga sahaja wakil rakyat BN menyertai mereka untuk membentuk kerajaan baru di negeri itu.

"Pertama, krisis dalam BN terlalu besar untuk dipertahankan. Mereka saling serang menyerang antara satu sama lain. Yang kedua, ramai pemimpin BN terlibat dalam perniagaan. Mereka tidak akan biarkan krisis ini berterusan kerana ia tidak baik untuk perniagaan mereka. Sebab yang ketiga adalah tidak ada pemimpin dalam BN yang diyakini dapat menyatukan Malaysia. Mereka melihat Anwar sebagai alternatifnya," kata Zul kepada saya.

"Jika awak terpaksa membuat pilihan untuk menyertai Pakatan Rakyat atau bersama dengn Umno dalam BN untuk membentuk kerajaan, apa pilihan awak," tanya saya secara nakal kepada beliau.

Zul dengan tegas dan jelas berkata, "Saya tidak akan membuat pilihan itu. Pilihan yang ada adalah saya akan bersama-sama dengan semua pimpinan untuk membuat satu keputusan sahaja. Keputusan yang ada sekarang adalah kami bersama dengan Pakatan Rakyat dan saya yakin keputusan ini akan kekal."

Sikap yang ditunjukan PJ Negeri Sembilan ini adalah sikap kebanyakan pimpinan Pas. Namun, senario yang ada kurang menyenangkan beberapa pihak.

Menurut satu laporan, DAP belum lagi diajak berunding dengan jelas tentang perancangan 16 September ini.

Pendek kata, mereka tidak jelas apa sebenarnya yang akan berlaku pada 16 September ini. Begitu juga Pas. Saya difahamkan, kebanyakan pemimpin parti itu juga tidak tahu dengan jelas apa akan berlaku pada 16 September ini.

Saya difahamkan, beberapa siri perbincangan telah dibuat oleh pemimpin tertinggi Pakatan Rakyat sebelum pilihan raya kecil Permatang Pauh. Namun, secara rasminya tidak ada sebarang perbincangan lagi selepas kemenangan besar Anwar di Permatang Pauh itu. Bagi saya perbincangan ini penting kerana Permatang Pauhlah yang menyebabkan keyakinan rakyat naik menjulang bahawa 16 September akan berlaku.

Lajnah Politik Pas akan bermesyuarat 13 September ini. Kebiasaannya lajnah yang paling berkuasa dalam membuat keputusan mengenai politik dalam Pas ini akan bermesyuarat apabila keputusan penting mahu dibuat mengenai senario politik di negara ini.

13 September bermakna tiga hari menjelang hari penting yang dikatakan bakal merubah lanskap politik Malaysia.

"Jika mesyuarat ini dibuat untuk memutuskan keadaan 16 September, ia terlalu lewat," kata saya kepada salah seorang anggota lajnah berkenaan. Dia bersetuju dengan pandangan saya.

Namun, katanya, itulah tarikh yang telah ditetapkan untuk mesyuarat lajnah ini.

Hampir kesemua tokoh penting Pas menjadi anggota lajnah ini. Ia dipengerusikan oleh Presiden Pas, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Kenapa saya katakan ia terlalu lewat? Bagi saya, pemimpin kanan Pas perlu berada bersama-sama dalam team Anwar untuk merangka bersama-sama, apa yang akan berlaku pada 16 September ini. Begitu juga pemimpin kanan DAP sesuai dengan mereka adalah rakan kongsi utama dalam kerajaan baru yang hendak dibentuk nanti.

Jika Pas dan DAP tidak terlibat dalam merancang, sudah tentu hasilnya nanti tidaklah sebaik jika mereka bersama-sama dalam pasukan itu. Tak kan Pas dan DAP mahu memetik hasilnya sahaja tanpa turut serta bekerja keras untuk mendapatkannya.

Harapan saya, maklumat bahawa pemimpin kanan Pas dan DAP tidak terlibat dalam perancangan projek 16 September ini adalah maklumat yang tidak tepat. Jika tidak, Pas dan DAP bakal menjadi gerabak sahaja dalam kerajaan baru itu nanti.

Former Segambut MP joins PKR

Former Segambut MP joins PKR
By ROYCE CHEAH


PETALING JAYA: Former Segambut MP and Federal Territories Gerakan chief Datuk Dr Tan Kee Kwong has joined PKR citing that he has lost faith in Barisan Nasional.

Speaking at a press conference Saturday together with PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Dr Tan said he had submitted his decision to resign from Gerakan via fax at 11am on Friday.

"The decision was not easy but the sentiments were there. I also received the support of my wife and close friends," he said, adding that the decision was made two days ago.

Dr Tan, 62, said that Gerakan had not contacted him since the letter was faxed and that the party had also not "talked about him" for the past six weeks.

"I joined PKR because I believe it is the party of the future and that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is leading the charge to make Malaysia a better country."

When asked if he was sad about leaving the party he had joined in 1995, Dr Tan said it was not about being sad but about doing what was right in the little time that anyone has in life.

"It is actually a breath of fresh air for me. I know that people might criticise me for being ungrateful but even in my previous party I was considered an irritant, a cancer in the party that refused to follow the mainstream."

Dr Tan said in his time in Government, as a former Deputy Land and Cooperative Development Minister, he had tried his best to effect change from within but could not.

"And any effort to effect change now would be impossible."

He said all Barisan component parties ought to reassess themselves and be honest about what they stood for in politics, adding that he was not advocating mass defections.

Who Will Jump? BN Component Party Charts - Malaysiakini

Friday, September 5, 2008
Who Will Jump? BN Component Party Charts - Malaysiakini

Refer to yesterday article of Raja Petra Kamaruddin calculation on possibility of 30 to 40 MPs to cross over, here are the summary charts to show the exact numbers and position of all the Barisan Nasional Component Party.


Please refer :
http://malaysianshares.blogspot.com/2008/09/malaysiakini-30-to-40-mps-cross-over.html



If we analyze it from the chart, which political party will have the higher possibility to jump over?


Pakatan Rakyat now holds 82 parliamentary seats including one each in Sarawak and Sabah under DAP.

To form a government and go straight ahead to Putrajaya Administration Office, they just need 30 MPs but this would not be enough or unstable (Barisan Nasional 110 seats - 112 seats Pakatan Rakyat) unless Pakatan Rakyat managed to pull nearly to 40 MPs.



Barisan Nasional has 140 seats in Parliament. Here is the break up:


PENINSULAR MALAYSIA - 86 Parliamentary Seats.

1 ) UMNO 79 Seats

Peninsular Malaysia 66 Seats

Sabah 13 Seats

2 ) MCA 15 Seats

3 ) MIC 3 Seats

4 ) GERAKAN 2 Seats

SARAWAK - 30 Parliamentary Seats

5 ) PBB 14 Seats

6 ) SUPP 6 Seats

7 ) PRS 6 Seats

8 ) SPDP 4 Seats

SABAH - 24 Parliamentary Seats (13 UMNO Seats)

9 ) UPKO 4 Seats

10) PBS 3 Seats

11) SAPP 2 Seats

12) PBRS 1 Seat

13) LDP 1 Seat

Some people seeing this is just a tactical play in politics. To build an instablity political situation in Malaysia. To let people know how weak is Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Datuk Seri Najib compare to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Sept 16 might be a date to remember but don't forget about Sept 10 (Datuk Seri Anwar to attend court hearing on his case). It will not bring any major impact on him but for sure and definitely it will make those who had invested in the share market to keep on guessing and biting their finger nails.




Latest Developments : Barisan Nasional MPs being asked to hand in passports for study trip. It is understood that the trip, said to take place between Sept 7 and Sept 19. Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing (Bintulu MP) said the trip was the brainchild of the Backbenchers Club.

The purpose of this trip is to update every MPs with the latest information about agriculture and high tech food production so that they can debate better on the Budget when Parliament sits again in October.

"Wah..... this is nice because all the while I thought that Barisan Nasional just sit there without doing anything. Now they have started to pull out their SWORD and their SHEILD to prevent any further damages..... interesting."http://malaysianshares.blogspot.com/2008/09/who-will-jump-bn-component-party-charts.html

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Barisan reps asked to hand in passports for study trip

(The Star) - Barisan Nasional MPs have been asked to submit their passports for an overseas study trip ahead of Sept 16, the date that is being bandied about for supposed defections to take place.

Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said the trip was the brainchild of the club but rejected suggestions that it was organised because of the Sept 16 claim.

“The trip came about after a few of our members got talking. We wanted MPs to update themselves with the latest information about agriculture and high-tech food production so that we can debate better on the Budget when Parliament sits again in October.

“This is the best time for the trip although it is the fasting month because after that, Hari Raya celebrations begin and Parliament will meet again,” he told The Star here yesterday.

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been claiming that his plan to topple the Barisan government by Sept 16 was on track. He claimed that some 30 Barisan MPs, particularly from Sabah and Sarawak, were ready to defect.

It is understood that the trip, said to take place between Sept 7 and Sept 19, will be open to all MPs, especially those whose constituencies have agricultural concerns, and not just MPs from Sabah and Sarawak, said to be targets of PKR.

Tiong, the Bintulu MP, maintained that the trip “had nothing to do with Sept 16”, saying it was only natural to ask MPs to submit their passports for the purpose of visa applications and ticket bookings.

He said the club had not finalised how many MPs would be going on the trip or the actual date.

“We haven’t also decided on the destination country. You know me, I only like to announce something when all the details have been confirmed,” he said.

He stressed that it was not an “overseas retreat” but a study trip for MPs.

Deputy Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin also confirmed there was such a trip to explore agricultural technology.

“Probably, the trip will be over this weekend. But we have not decided how many MPs will be participating,” the Kinabatangan MP said.

Kapit MP Alexander Nanta Linggi said he had been asked by fellow MPs from Sarawak if “he was available”.

“I told them that I was going on a trip with (Plantation Industries and Commodities) Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui on his palm oil campaign mission overseas to London and Belgium. They left it at that.”

Kimanis MP Datuk Anifah Aman and Muar MP Razali Ibrahim said they had not been contacted by anybody on the proposed trip.

“I don’t know anything. I’ve been in my constituency the whole day and Parliament has not asked for my passport,” said Anifah, who is known for his vocal views during debate in Dewan Rakyat.

Pasik Salak MP Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman also denied being asked to go for the trip.

“What trip? I was not approached for this,” he added.

Sabah MPs reject loyalty pledge

KOTA KINABALU: Many of the 24 Sabah Barisan Nasional MPs are rejecting a move to get them to sign a loyalty pledge to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

State Barisan Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Anifah Aman said the move proposed by Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal was an insult to the Sabah MPs. He added that the pledge should instead be signed by all Barisan MPs nationwide.

He said various Sabah MPs including himself had repeatedly voiced their loyalty to the Barisan leadership and pledged that they had no intention of crossing over to join the opposition.

“We did this during the Permatang Pauh campaign, on television and again in Kota Kinabalu. Is the frequency of denial equivalent to our loyalty?” said Anifah, the Kimanis MP and Kimanis Umno chief.

He said many Sabah Barisan backbenchers had called him asking about the pledge and some had said they felt that they were being treated like “cattle.”

Anifah questioned Shafie's real intentions for proposing the loyalty pledge and wondered whether it was aimed at scoring “political points” in his bid for the Umno vice-president's post in the party polls.

On Thursday, Shafie had said that Sabah and Sarawak MPs would be submitting a pledge declaring their loyalty to the Prime Minister by Friday or Saturday. He had said the MPs from both states would never quit the coalition despite the various rumours about them.

Kalabakan MP Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh said the loyalty pledge seemed to infer that Sabah MPs could not be trusted.

Saying he would not be signing any such pledge, Ghapur, the Kalabakan Umno chief, said the Sabah MPs had been vocal about issues affecting the state as they felt that these problems had to be resolved.

“But this should never be misconstrued as us being disloyal to the leadership,” he added.
Karambunai MP Datuk Eric Majimbun, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) deputy president, said neither he nor fellow SAPP MP Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui of Tawau would be signing such a pledge.

“What is the point of such a pledge? This so-called pledge doesn't make sense,” he said.

By RUBEN SARIO, THE STAR

Kimma Youth chief, 850 members quit party

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Indian Muslim Congress (Kimma) National Youth chief Datuk Thajudeen Mohideen and 850 youth members quit the party following a disagreement with top party leaders who wanted to withdraw support for Barisan Nasional.

"We want to continue supporting Barisan," Thajudeen told reporters at a news conference here on Saturday.

He said the move was made after Kimma president Muhammed Ali Naina Mohd said the party should stop supporting Barisan and join Pakatan Rakyat.

Thajudeen claimed Muhammad Ali made the statement to 23 members of the Kimma supreme council at a two-hour meeting at the party headquarters here on Aug 2.

"On that night, 13 of the 23 supreme council members were adamant in not joining Pakatan," he said.

Thajudeen said a new political party would be formed soon for Malaysian Indian Muslims. -- Bernama

BARISAN NASIONAL - A FAST-SINKING SHIP

BARISAN NASIONAL - A FAST-SINKING SHIP
With the ‘conscience of Barisan Nasional’ Datuk Dr. Toh Kin Woon resigning from Gerakan, many Gerakan members with conscience are expected to follow his food-steps before September 16 - the dead-line set for the change of the present federal government with cross-over of at least 30 MP’s from the government bench.

That reminds me of the incident when I abstained from voting in the Penang State Assembly over DAP’s motion on the Penang Outer Ring Road Project and being described by certain media as ‘conscience of BN’, BN leaders criticised it by saying ‘as if BN has no conscience’!

Anyhow, Gerakan grassroots are now frustrated and furious over the party’s impotence to change the present government policies and to restrain UMNO’s excessivness in making racial remarks and advances. UMNO’s narrow appeals to the Malay community has been intensified after 308 in the cloak of preserving Malay hegemony or ‘ketuanan Melayu’.

But, with vested interests so entrenched in the present system, the top Gerakan leadership have to buy time and attempt to calm down their members by using the excuse that ’it is not time yet’ to leave the BN.

This sounds as if they would also agree for the party to leave BN eventually but not now. Well, these people are buying insurance in the event that BN, the sinking ship after 308 political Tsunami, is sinking further after the Permatang Pauh by-election.

BN appears to be incapable of taking discipline actions against its own components now. The Sabah’s SAPP openly reiterated its intention until this very day to move a vote of no confidence in Parliament upon the Prime Minister Pak Lah . But even after an official reply was made by SAPP to BN, no action was dared to be made by the latter.

Lately, Tan Lean Hoe, the Gerakan Wanita Chief and more importantly, a BN Deputy Minister of Information openly expressed the Gerakan grassroots’ feelings to leave BN, yet again the BN accepted her explanation.

BN components are fully aware that BN is not formulating government policies and, in fact, making decisions through genuine consultation. It is all UMNO’s hegemony which rendered people like Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting does not even like to return to the Cabinet, or, in fact, to continue to serve as the MCA President any longer, though he may choose to offer another version of his political docility and reluctance.

Some unrepentant BN leaders accused those who choose to defect to Pakatan Rakyat as immoral, as if only they possess morality of the highest order. But the rakyat would like to question these people, is it not immoral to serve a regime that is repressive, undemocratic, unfair and unjust. If taking side in the interests of the people is ‘immoral’, then must well let it be!

So much is the moral bankruptcy of the BN- a fast-sinking ship. If the passengers of this ship are not wise to make a decision by jumping or saving themselves in one way or another, then they could choose to remain on board and be prepared for the eventuality.

http://limboochang.com/?p=327

Lagi Pemimpin Parti Gerakan: Menyertai Kempen DSAI di Permatang Pauh

22 August 2008
Lagi Pemimpin Parti Gerakan: Menyertai Kempen DSAI di Permatang Pauh
oleh permatangpauh.com

PERMATANG PAUH, Yayasan Aman 22 OGOS - Seorang lagi pemimpin Parti Gerakan Rakyat (Gerakan-BN), Dr. Tan Kee Kwang merupakan Pengerusi Gerakan Wilayah Persekutuan kini menyertai kempen pilihanraya menyokong perjuangan DSAI terhadap ekonomi negera.

Beliau yang kini berada di Pulau Pinang secara terbuka menyifatkan DSAI sepatutnya meneraju negara dan meminta rakyat memberikan sokongan padu kepada Anwar.

Berikutan itu beliau telah digantung keahliannya, bersedia menerima keputusan pecat oleh Barisan Nasional.

Sebelum itu, pimpinan tertinggi parti itu juag, Dato' Dr. Toh Kin Woon juga menyatakan sokongan terbuka beliau secara sendiri dan melepaskan jawatan tersebut kelmarin.

Pemimpin Parti Gerakan telah menyatakan ketidak percayaan anggotanya kepada BN, menunjukan BN semakin khusut untuk di pulihkan lagi.

Jeffrey Claims 13 Sabah MPs To Join Pakatan Rakyat If Anwar Wins By-Election

Jeffrey Claims 13 Sabah MPs To Join Pakatan Rakyat If Anwar Wins By-Election


BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan has claimed that 13 Sabah members of parliament will cross over to the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) if PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wins the Permatang Pauh by-election next Tuesday.

He also claimed that the 13 MPs had met with him and expressed their support for Anwar.

"We speak the truth. I am talking about the 13 MPs who will join Pakatan Rakyat after Anwar wins this (Permatang Pauh) by-election ... they are just waiting (to cross over)," he told reporters after delivering a talk in Jalan Berapit here last night.

Jeffrey said two of the MPs were from the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and the rest from Umno.

The PR needs at least 30 more MPs to be able to form the federal government. Sabah has 24 Barisan Nasional (BN) MPs.

Anwar is involved in a three-corner fight for the Permatang Pauh seat, vacated on July 31 by his wife and PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to enable Anwar become an MP. The BN has fielded Seberang Jaya state assemblyman Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah. The third candidate is Hanafi Mamat of Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia (Akim).

Former MIC division chief and supporters join DAP

Former MIC division chief and supporters join DAP
Sun 17 Aug 2008 18:33

BERNAMA

KLANG, Sun: Alex Thiagarasan, the former MIC Klang Division chief who was sacked from the party early last month, today joined the DAP with about 1,500 of his supporters.

He handed over the membership application forms to DAP central executive committee member Ronnie Liu at a brief ceremony at the Dewan Hamzah here.

“I am proud to have joined the DAP and will continue to serve the local community. I am thankful to the DAP for having accepted me and my friends.

“I invite people who need my services to see me at the service centre in Jalan Teluk Pulai here,” he said.

Liu, who is Selangor Local Government and Research Committee chairman, welcomed Thiagarasan and his supporters and reminded them to adhere to the party culture and rules.

Thiagarasan was expelled from the MIC on July 7 after he lodged reports with the police and Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) against MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu over alleged misappropriation of funds meant for the Indian community.

Samy Vellu has filed a RM10-million suit against Thiagarasan and has obtained an injunction prohibiting him from making any statement on the issue.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Alex joins DAP
Only about five hundred supporters turned up for a brief ceremony at the Dewan Hamzah in Klang this morning to watch my friend Alex Thiagarasan (photo, left) hand over membership application forms to DAP leader Ronnie Liu (photo, center), the Selangor state Local Government and Research Committee chairman and also ADUN for Pandamaran.


Former MIC Klang division chief Alex was expecting at least a thousand Klang MIC members to join him en bloc today but claims that SMS messages went out late last night to inform members that the ceremony has been postponed to a later date after the Permatang Pauh by-election. Alex vows to find out the culprits behind the hoax and to organise a bigger turnout at a future date.

Alex is undeterred after being expelled from MIC recently. He is also facing a RM10 million defamation suit by Samy Vellu after he had lodged reports with the police and ACA alleging that the MIC boss had misappropriated huge funds meant for the Indian community. Samy has also obtained an injunction barring him from making any statements relating to the issue.

Gerakan Leader Endorses Anwar

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17 Aug 08
Gerakan Leader Endorses Anwar
Malaysiakini.com

Beh Lih Yi | Aug 17, 08 9:40pm

At a time when most of the BN top brass are expressing great confidence in winning the Permatang Pauh by-election, one top level Gerakan leader today risked party and BN irk by giving his stamp of approval for PKR’s Anwar Ibrahim.

That support came from Gerakan’s Penang-based leader Dr Toh Kin Woon, an outspoken former state executive councillor when Penang was ruled by Gerakan-led BN before the March general election.

Toh not just expressed his support for Anwar, he also visited a PKR election operation room in Permatang Pasir, one of three state constituencies in Permatang Pauh, this evening.


Accompanied by a friend, Toh was welcomed to the operation room by several top level Pakatan Rakyat leaders, including Penang deputy chief minister Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin, Penang exco Law Choo Kiang, PKR vice-president Dr Lee Boon Chye and information chief Tian Chua. Anwar was however not present.

A banner stating ‘let us reform Malaysia together’ was also placed at the room during Toh’s brief visit.

When met later, Toh said his visit was to show his support for Anwar in the by-election.

“I am not speaking for my party, I am speaking for myself as an individual - I do support Anwar Ibrahim in this by-election. I am not actually supporting him too much as an individual but more on the movement that he leads.

“I feel if Anwar (is elected to) Parliament, the voices of the opposition will be stronger and the chances of strengthening the democracy and widening the democratic space will be better. For these reason, I support him,” said the academician-turned-politician.

‘He has been very consistent’


The vocal politician stressed that he was not supporting Anwar-led PKR as a party but the movement and the cause which the PKR politician has been fighting for.

“He is leading the movement for transformation, greater democracy, equality and more openness in the society.

“I think he has been very consistent and courageous, (and) I support the movement that he leads,” Toh added.

The Gerakan leader was however coy when asked on the chances of BN candidate Arif Shah Omar Shah in the Aug 26 by-election.

“No comment. I’m just here to say why I’m here and the reason why I’m here is to support Anwar. Arif was my colleague in the state assembly,” he said in referring to the BN man who is also a two-term Seberang Jaya state assemblyperson.

Asked on whether he feared of disciplinary action which could be taken against him for openly pledging support to the rival candidate, he replied: “When we decide to take individual action, we have to be prepared. Whatever that comes, we will face it.”

He denied he has any immediate plans to quit Gerakan to join PKR, saying that “I will see how it goes”.

Rakyat supremacy


Toh also noted that he has retired from electoral politics and would like to join civil society. He said he has been consistent in supporting movements that will strengthen the civil society.

“(These movements must) strengthen the voices of moderation, against racism, for political freedom, a more just and equal society. Anwar has articulated all this,” stressed Toh.

Meanwhile, Fairus - who is also PKR’s Penanti state assemblyperson - welcomed Toh’s support.

“We are pleased with this visit and hope it will inspire the rest in BN to look at the current political development that has to be based on the ‘rakyat supremacy’ and not racial politics,” the Penang deputy chief minister said.

Tan Yee Kew and 1,700 others join PKR

Tan Yee Kew and 1,700 others join PKR

Tan Yee Kew (Photo credit: Mysinchew)
Just heard from a KL journalist:

At a ceremony from 10.30am to noon today, Anwar Ibrahim accepted a stack of PKR membership forms from former MCA senior central committee member Tan Yee Kew and 1,700 others described as former BN supporters.

Some 1,500 people packed a convention hall at the Klang Executive Club to witness the handover.

PKR had received over 2,000 application forms from the constituencies of Kapar, Shah Alam and Klang but was able to process only 1,700.

Tan, who was also International Trade and Industry Ministry parliamentary secretary, quit the MCA on 17 July. She said she shared the people’s disenchantment over the widening gap between the rich and the poor, racial discrimination, rampant corruption and abuse of power.


Anwar would of course be familiar with the old “crossover” tactics that the BN traditionally employs ahead of elections. It’s all part of the psy-war to show rising support for the party that uses this tactic. In the past, I would often take such BN “crossover” figures with a big pinch of salt.

So I am not sure how accurate the PKR figure is. But what I can say is that there has been a certain swing away from the BN in the light of the sodomy allegations (which appear to have backfired - no pun intended!), the Altantuya revelations, the oil price hike, and the fall in PM Abdullah’s approval ratings.

The action now shifts to Permatang Pauh tonight for another big ceramah featuring Anwar.

Blog reader Kenny Gan sends us this report:

I was at the PKR event at Klang Executive Club. The hall was packed and the attendees were majority Chinese, some Indians and a sprinkling of Malays. Their ages span a wide range, but most of them were young Chinese, under 30.

Chinese no longer believe in MCA representing them. MCA is definitely on a decline but they seem to carry on sucking up to Umno as if that is the most natural thing to do.

There were 2079 new members for PKR and 1700 attendees. I looked at the fresh, enthusiastic faces of the young Chinese there and I knew MCA is doomed.

http://anilnetto.com/malaysian-elections/tan-yee-kew-and-1700-mca-members-cross-over-to-pkr/

Lim Boo Chang joins PKR

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Lim Boo Chang joins PKR
June 26, 208
GEORGE TOWN: Lim Boo Chang, who quit the MCA as a life member last month, has formally joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat along with 350 other people.


The former two-term Datuk Keramat assemblyman made headlines when he crossed over from the Gerakan to MCA eight years ago.

Lim said in a statement yesterday that their applications to join PKR had been accepted by the party’s de factor leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

He said the March 8 general election had resulted in the emergence of a two-party system.

“It is healthy for Malaysia not to be dominated by any single party if our aim to achieve a true parliamentary democracy and free society is to be achieved. Our hope is to see a better tomorrow for the country,” he said.

Fauzi Abdul Rahman sertai PKR

Fauzi Abdul Rahman sertai PKR
Muda Mohd Noor | Jul 23, 08 1:42pm
Bekas ahli parlimen Kuantan, Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman yang menyertai parti itu hari ini berkata, ramai lagi pemimpin Umno Pahang akan menyertai parti itu dalam tempoh terdekat ini.

"Kami dapat meramalkan penyertaan pemimpin Umno secara beramai-ramai ke dalam PKR dan fenomena ini adalah berterusan.


"Sebenarnya tidak ada tempoh tertentu untuk mereka menyertai PKR kerana kami tidak menetapkan sebarang syarat kepada mereka," katanya kepada Malaysiakini.

Penyertaan Fauzi dalam PKR itu diumumkan oleh ketua umum parti itu, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim di ibu pejabat PKR di Petaling Jaya hari ini.

Fauzi pernah memegang jawatan setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Penerangan pada Oktober 1990 sehingga 1995, setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Tanah dan Pembangunan Koperasi (1995-1997) dan timbalan menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (1977-99).

Beliau yang juga bekas ketua Umno bahagian Kuantan, mula bertanding kerusi Parlimen Kuantan pada 1990. Pada 1995 beliau bertanding kerusi Beserah (DUN) dan menyandang kerusi tersebut sehingga 2004.

Hadir sama dalam sidang akhbar hari ini ialah dua lagi bekas pemimpin Umno yang telahpun menyertai PKR. Mereka ialah bekas ketua Umno bahagian Kota Setar, Datuk Abdul Hadi Derani dan bekas timbalan ketua Umno bahagian Mentakab, Datuk Mat Lazim Derani.

"Rakyat termasuk ahli dan pemimpin Umno marah dengan cara kerajaan melayan Anwar yang sedang menghadapi tududan liwat sekarang.

"Jangan naik kerana keburukan orang lain kerana ini bukan budaya rakyat Malaysia, sebaliknya perlu menampilkan kewibawaan diri.

"Isu liwat itu akan menjadi senjata makan tuan, rakyat akan semakin benci kepada Umno dan masuk PKR," katanya lagi.


Sementara seorang pemimpin Umno di Pahang yang dihubungi hari ini berkata, dakwaan Fauzi bahawa ramai pemimpin Umno akan menyertai PKR sukar dipercayai.

Katanya, mungkin beberapa pemimpin veteran akan berbuat demikian tetapi ia tidak menjejaskan kekuatan Umno.

"Saya tidak dengar ada pemimpin utama negeri atau bahagian akan menyertai PKR dalam masa terdekat ini.

"Jadi dakwaan Fauzi itu mungkin hanya seronok didengar tetapi belum tentu kesahihannya," katanya yang enggan namanya disiarkan.

Former deputy minister joins PKR

Former deputy minister joins PKR
By SHAHANAAZ HABIB


PETALING JAYA: Former deputy minister and ex-Kuantan MP Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman has joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

The announcement was made by party adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the PKR headquarters on Wednesday.

Fauzi, who was a former Kuantan Umno division chief and retired from active politics five years ago, said he had rested for too long and was ready to play an active role in PKR.

"It is time for Malaysians to wake up and form a tangible two-party system. The loss of Barisan (Nasional) is the rakyat's gain," he said.

AJK MCA diura-ura sertai PKR

AJK MCA diura-ura sertai PKR
Jul 17, 08 12:00pm
Ahli jawatankuasa pusat MCA Dr Tan Yee Kew meninggalkan MCA dan bakal mencetuskan kegemparan baru apabila bekas setiuasaha parlimen ini diura-urakan akan menyertai PKR.

Dalam sidang media mengumumkan keputusannya keluar parti hari ini, Dr Tan berkata "PKR satu pilihan yang baik" apabila diminta mengulas ura-ura itu.

Bagaimanapun beliau akan mengumumkan parti baru yang bakal disertainya tidak lama lagi.

"Bibit sistem dua parti telah ditunjukkan di negara ini pada 8 Mac... Saya yakin masanya telah tiba satu perubahan politik dalam negara kita," katanya.

Mengulas usahanya menyokong sistem dua parti - antara BN dan Pakatan - yang sedang terbentuk selepas pilihanraya umum Mac lalu, beliau berkata:

"Sama ada sistem dua parti akan tenggelam akarnya di bumi Malaysia, sekaranglah ketikanya membuat keputusan.

"Sebagai seorang individu, kekuatan saya terhad. Bagaimanapun, jika dalam masa perubahan politik yang kritikal, saya boleh memberi sedikit bantuan, tidak kira bagaimana remehnya nanti, ia masih satu langkah yang bernilai diambil."

Dr Tan, bekas timbalan ketua Wanita MCA, diura-urakan akan dilantik pengerusi Majlis Perbandaran Klang jika menyertai Pakatan Rakyat.

Dalam kenyataan di sidang media di Klang, beliau menyatakan MCA gagal memperjuangkan nasib kaum Cina dan BN sendiri tidak mampu mengatasi pelbagai masalah rasuah, diskriminasi kaum, salah guna kuasa dan jurang kaya-miskin yang semakin meluas.

"MCA terpaksa berhempas-pulas untuk mempertahankan kepentingan kaum, tetapi kadangkala berakhir dengan menyerah dan kompromi," kata Dr Tan.

Beliau juga melahirkan rasa kecewanya dengan persaingan puak dalam MCA dan desakan pembaharuan yang gagal dilaksanakan oleh barisan pemimpin parti.

"Dalam parti, amalan berpuak-puak telah menyebabkan pertelingkahan dalaman dan membiarkan amalan-amalan yang tidak baik seperti wujudnya ahli hantu.

"Pendedahan kebanyakan isu parti sejauh ini tidak diatasi secara adil dan saksama.

"Saya cuba memperjuangkan untuk pembaharuan tetapi kecewa melihat perjuangan parti yang bermula atas nama demokrasi dan reformasi, berakhir hanya dengan pertukaran kepimpinan dan peralihan kuasa, tetapi perubahan telah tidak dilaksanakan dengan jujurnya," kata bekas setiausaha parlimen Kementerian Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri.

Tan Yee Kew keluar MCA

17/07/2008 11:30am


KUALA LUMPUR 17 Julai – Bekas Naib Ketua Wanita MCA, Datin Paduka Dr. Tan Yee Kew mengumumkan keluar daripada parti itu kerana kecewa dengan MCA dan hilang kepercayaan terhadap parti.

Bekas Setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri (MITI) itu membayangkan akan menyertai Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

Beliau menyerahkan surat peletakan jawatannya menerusi faksimile ke Ibu Pejabat MCA hari ini. - Utusan.

Bye-bye UMNO

With criminals managing UMNO and all the agencies related to UMNO Government, it's criminal to be in UMNO or any parties close to it.Bye-bye UMNO. Bye-bye BN.