Politician speak “The results show that the people have the full confidence in our two leaders. It is also a sign that voters, especially the Chinese and Indian [Malaysians], have now returned to support [the Barisan Nasional (BN)].” “My win is due to a combination of factors. People are now back with BN. They are […]
Bagan Pinang
Winning the next elections
THERE are three ways to understand the stunning outcome of the Bagan Pinang by-election: Najib, Isa and the Pakatan Rakyat (PR). If you believe that the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s victory is really about Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia, then you would have to accept that Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad and the money politics […]
The myth of Malaysian diversity
HERE’S a statistic to think about: the nine by-elections since the March 2008 general election have seen a total of 36 candidates contesting. Only two, or less than 5.6%, of these candidates have been women. The two were L Sarala, who contested in the record-breaking Bukit Selambau by-election in April 2009, and Aminah Abdullah, who […]
Hantu Bagan Pinang!
68 SAYA sudah mula serik meliputi kempen pilihanraya.Terlalu banyak misteri yang mengganggu perasaan semasa tempoh pilihanraya. Contohnya pengalaman saya di Bagan Pinang, Negeri Sembilan, baru-baru ini. Bukannya saya tidak minat mengikut calon, mendengar ceramah, memantau isu dan melaporkan keputusan pengundian. Itu semua sudah menjadi tugas setiap wartawan di arena pilihanraya. Tapi misteri di Bagan Pinang […]
The Bagan Pinang victory
AFTER losing in all of the by-elections it has contested in the peninsula since March 2008, the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s Bagan Pinang win must taste like ambrosia. The BN’s candidate from Umno, Tan Sri Isa Samad, polled 8,013 votes against the 2,578 votes garnered by PAS’s Zulkefly Omar. In fact, Isa’s majority of 5,435 votes […]
BN wins big in Bagan Pinang (Updated 10:40pm)
Updated at 10:40pm, 11 Oct 2009 PORT DICKSON, 11 Oct 2009: The Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Bagan Pinang state seat in Negeri Sembilan after its candidate Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad defeated PAS candidate Zulkefly Mohamad Omar with a majority of 5,435 votes. Isa polled 8,013 votes while Zulkefly obtained 2,578 votes in […]
All eyes on Bagan Pinang
BAGAN Pinang initially awakened to light thunder and a drizzle on 11 Oct 2009; the kind of Sunday morning that is made for sleeping in. But today is polling day, the culmination of a week of bizarre and occasionally sluggish campaigning by both the Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR). It is a tense […]
EC refutes claims on postal voters’ list
PORT DICKSON, 11 Oct 2009: The Election Commission (EC) has refuted claims that the Army Basic Training Centre here did not use the voters’ list issued by the commission during the postal voting for the Bagan Pinang by-election on Thursday. State EC director Abdul Latif Baba said the voters’ list displayed by armed forces at […]
Balloting begins in Bagan Pinang
PORT DICKSON, 11 Oct 2009: Balloting for the Bagan Pinang by-election began as soon as polling centres opened at 8am. Most of the 13,664 voters, not including the 4,604 postal voters that had been cast earlier, were expected to vote early. They will be choosing a new state assemblyperson for the state seat which became […]
A bizarre week in Bagan Pinang
Worshippers at Masjid Qariah MASJID Qariah Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson, is sandwiched between a major Barisan Nasional (BN) operations centre and PAS’s main by-election headquarters along Jalan Pantai. On Friday, 9 Oct 2009, the mosque was bursting at the seams with worshippers. In his khutbah, the imam said Islam is a religion of unity and […]
