DAP Elected Representatives Are 65 Millions Dallor Men?

The MP for Ipoh Barat and national vice-chairman M. Kulasegaran said today that elected representatives of the DAP are not for sale!

V. Sivakumar the Tronoh assemblyman lodged a report at the Ipoh police district police yesterday.

Sivakumar claimed that he had been deluged with offers of RM65 millions cash and a state executive councillor post to change political parties after March 8 general election but the offer drop to RM10 millions cash with a state exco post yesterday.

Sivakumar told reporters here yesterday that not only was he harassed over the phone and through SMSes, some quarters claiming to be supporters of some political parties even went to his house to persuade him.

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Pak Lah Sworn In As 5th PM For Second Term

Pak Lah took an oath before Malaysia's King Mizan Zainal Abidin in a solemn ceremony at the royal palace in Kuala Lumpur today after BN was losing its crucial two-thirds majority in Parliament and conceding five states to the resurgent opposition on last Saturday election.

Former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had on yesterday said his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has "destroyed" the ruling coalition after disastrous weekend elections and should resign.

Meanwhile, at 3.00pm the Bursa Malaysia closed down 123 points or 9.5 percent at 1,173.22 in the biggest tumble since the height of the Asian financial crisis in September 1998.

Will the last Saturday electoral outcome an early signal of the end of BN race-based political system in Malaysia? Let us wait for another electoral outcome in the year of 2012 before we make a conclusion.

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12th General Election Results BN vs Opposition 140 : 82

It's 12.30am, I'm with other DAP supporter are gather at main centre awaiting for the SPR to announce the election result for Petaling Jaya Utara. Despite the fact that we have aware the result, the SPR officer are refused to make the official announcement.

Why? Perhaps the Barisan Nasional have yet to form the new government! We also received lots of SMS and phone calls that Beside Kelantan, Penang and Kedah, Perak and Selangor may also captured by the opposition parties.

Yes, our speculations are correct! At 2.30pm, the SPR have announced that BN have form a new government with "Simple Majority" and Kelantan, Penang, Kedah, Selangor and Perak have captured by opposition party.

The political tsunami have caused the BN lost 2/3 majority in parliament. The BN government only managed to secure 140 seats in parliament which lead by UMNO 79 seats, MCA 15 seats, MIC 3 seats, Gerakan 2 seats and East Malaysia 41 seats.

The opposition have win a total of 82 parliament seats which lead by PKR 31 seats, DAP 28 seats and PAS 23 seats

The BN also lost 5 state governments to the opposition which include Kelantan, Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor.

The BN coalition was badly defeated by the opposition, Gerakan, MCA, MIC and PPP were suffer catastrophic losses. This election results also indirectly show that race-based political party under the BN as "obsolete and irrelevant".

Now the opposition party are given the opportunity to demonstrate to the votes that opposition parties have the capability to transform from a opposition party to ruling party.

Looking forward we the silent majarity should monitor the performance of both the BN and opposition coalition in the coming five years and prepare for another round of political tsunami by 2012.

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My First Experience As Polling And Counting Agent

Today 8th March 2008, I've volunteer myself as the polling and counting agent for Democratic Action Party (DAP) for the Petaling Jaya Utara parliament constituency in the 12th general election.

At 7.00am, I arrived at Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Megah located at SS26 Petaling Jaya. At 7.50am, I walk-in to the polling center "8" as assigned by DAP and sit at the place reserved for polling agent.

At 8.00am, the polling is started and in the first hour, more than 80 voters turn-up and cast thier vote into ballot box.

I was replace by another volunteer at 1.10pm as I and my wife have to go to vote at the same school. Due to lack of both financial and human resources, I have to come back at 4.00pm to act as counting agent. I was told that the ruling party is paying RM200 to thier polling and counting agent for two hours of work.

At 5.00pm the polling center is close and all ballot box is sealed and witness by polling and counting agents. Later at 5.30pm, the counting start, for the past 11th general election, the counting of votes for parliament and state is seperated. The SPR will first count the state seat and than follow by the parliament seat. This understanding was achieved as all the SPR officer was aware that opposition party is lack of volunteer counting agent.

But in this 12th general election, the SPR have given less than a week notice to the opposition party that the counting of votes for both state and parliament will be perform at the same time.

Fortunately, this round the DAP have managed to ensure two counting agent is available. At 5.30pm, the counting started and the process end in about one hour.

The result is DAP have win both the state and parliament seats. The result was confirmed by SPR officer, counting agent from opposition party as well as the ruling coalition. Than, the result is recorded in the Borang 13 and signed by all three party.

The SPR officer informed us that they'll forward the result to the main center to tally for the total votes. I was told that according to the latest SPR ruling, all re-count could only be done at the polling station and no re-count could be done at main center.

I left the polling station and back to my house for dinner with my wife. Later, at 9.00pm I went to the main polling center at SS2 to meet up with DAP supporter. We was there to share our experience during the day. Lots of phone call and SMS are started to coming in.

At 10.30pm, I received an SMS which mentioned "Khairy has lost in Rembau". All of us are so happy to celebrete this news but about an hour later, we received another SMS which mentioned "after the re-count, Khairy win with majority of over 5,000 votes". Could this possible?

Perhaps only Khairy himself and those SPR officer and counting agent can answer.

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Just Change It, You Decide?

By tomorrow 8th March, approximately 10 millions of Malaysian registered voters will be casting their vote for the 12th general election. Both the ruling coalition and opposition parties are trying the best to secure their votes.

The ruling coalition have coming out with the theme of "Only One Choice" while the Democratic Action Party (DAP) have introduce the theme of "Just Change It".

The ruling coalition have spent heavily in print media, banner, billboard advertisement and even on Astro. The Democratic Action Party (DAP) which facing limited financial resources have concentrate on cyber space and the traditional ceramah which attract thousands of crow.

It is 8pm at night, the last Ceramah at SS2 is about to start but I'm unable to attend the ceramah tonight as I'm having high fever. I need to rest and let myself recover as soon as possible.

The reason is because I need to wake-up as early as 6.30am morning tomorrow. I have to report to the polling station at Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Megah located at SS26 in Petaling Jaya Utara where I'll be one of the polling and counting agent for DAP.

I think only the voters could decide whether the ruling coalition or the opposition party will win the 2008 election.

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DAP Penang Ceramah Draws 30,000 Crowd

As early as 7.00 pm, thousands of crowd had already gathered at the Han Chiang school field. At the peak of the ceramah, the crowd are more 30,000 (some source claim it around 50,000) spilled out onto the school compound and outer perimeters to listen to DAP candidates speak.

At the end of the event, DAP Padang Kota state candidate Chow Kon Yeow announced that the event had raised RM123,000 in donations.

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