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PETALING JAYA: Meskipun pilihanraya umum telah berlalu hampir tiga minggu lalu, namun kekalahan besar Barisan Nasional di Selangor masih diperkatakan. Walau dikemudi Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak serta dibantu bekas menteri kabinet, Datuk Seri Noh Omar, BN hanya memenangi 12 kerusi negeri daripada jumlah keseluruhan 56 kerusi. Malah Najib dan timbalannya, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin saban minggu turun ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: An MIC divisional leader today rejected a call for the party to stop delaying its presidential election or risk deregistration. Responding to an article published in FMT yesterday, Petaling Jaya Selatan MIC chief V Subramaniam said the writer was wrong in saying that the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC) had breached the law in its failure to ensure ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad has weighed in on the calls to hold street rallies to protest against the results of the 13th general election. With his trademark sarcasm, he said that perhaps it would be better if governments were chosen through street demonstrations. “It would probably be less fraudulent,” he wrote in his blog today. Mahathir said ... Read More »

Bahagian 2 PETALING JAYA: Dalam analisa bahagian kedua ini penganalisis politik veteran dari Negeri Sembilan itu seterusnya menghuraikan mengapa Pakatan Rakyat kalah di Negeri Sembilan pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU-13) yang lalu. Kali ini fokus lebih kepada PKR. Walaupun PKR memenangi tiga  kerusi DUN dan satu  kerusi parlimen iaitu DUN Chuah dan DUN  Port Dickson (kecuali Sikamat) serta parlimen ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: The attacks against PKR deputy president Azmin Ali escalates as more party grassroots members call for action to be taken him for critising party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. In letters addressed to PKR disciplinary committee dated May 16, one former party leader said that Azmin had breached party discipline by hurling baseless accusations against Wan Azizah. ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Political analysts have expressed mixed views over Pakatan Rakyat’s rejection of the recent 13th general election results. The analysts contacted by FMT today were responding to the opposition’s stand to not recognise the overall result of GE13, but readily accepted their wins in Pakatan-led states. “I think this is practical politics, and that the disagreement comes down to ... Read More »

KUCHING: With Pakatan Rakyat waiting to bite into Barisan Nasional’s stock of seats in the next state general election and upping its stakes, Chief Minister Taib Mahmud is taking no chances. He is ensuring that his team remains filial and this means rewarding them sufficiently with cash and contracts, if past record is any measure. The next state elections is ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng mahu polis bertindak ke atas  samseng yang cuba mengganggu hak rakyat Malaysia untuk mengadakan perhimpunan nyalaan lilin menuntut pembebasan aktivis mahasiswa Adam Adli Abdul Hamid malam tadi. Beliau berkata, sekumpulan penyokong pro Barisan Nasional telah mengasari peserta perhimpunan yang dihadiri kira-kira 30 orang termasuk dua wartawan iaitu Low Chia Ming dari ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Selangor MIC information chief N Sivasubramaniam today denied that he bought votes to ensure Barisan Nasional’s victory in Bukit Melawati in the recent general election. Responding to an allegation by PKR’s S Manikavasagam, he said the latter was “talking nonsense” because he was frustrated that he had lost the Bukit Melawati contest to Umno’s Jakiran Jacomah. He challenged ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR: A group of NGOs have urged the police to expedite investigations into the murder of political aide K Murugan’s during the 13th general election. Led by PKR’s candidate for the Tapah parliament seat, K Vasantha Kumar, the group handed over a memorandum addressed to Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar. Murugan, who was Vasantha Kumar’s aide, went missing ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Former DAP leader Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim today urged Malaysians to stay away from protests organised by Pakatan Rakyat. “We as Malaysians should not participate in this sort of anarchism,” said the former party vice chairman in reference to rallies and demonstrations against alleged vote rigging by Barisan Nasional in the recent general election. Speaking at a press ... Read More »

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PETALING JAYA: DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang today said he would move a motion once Parliament convenes to censure Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for his “arrogant and insufferable outburst”. He was referring to the Umno vice-president’s call yesterday for Malaysians unhappy with the country’s political system to emigrate from the country. “I invite MPs who wish to join me ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: The poor female representation in the cabinet points to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s failure to fulfil his promise to increase the number of women in decision-making positions, according to a coalition of NGOs fighting for gender equality. In a media statement released today, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) noted that the promise was included ... Read More »

KOTA BARU: The Kelantan government and PAS’ central leadership are considering ways of keeping party vice president Husam Musa’s political career alive without upsetting the royal palace. PAS sources told FMT that several recommendations were being discussed. Among the most viable proposal, they said, was to appoint him as an advisor to Kelantan’s economic task force, which is headed by ... Read More »

KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak vice-president Joseph Salang said the party’s supreme council took a firm stand on the cabinet posts because they were tired of “begging” and being treated like “flower arrangements” Said Salang: “Najib offered us only two deputy ministers…Only after the president (James Masing) protested and some begging, only then the Prime Minister agreed for (Joseph) Entulu to ... Read More »

PETALING JAYA: Bekas Setiausaha Politik bekas Menteri Besar Kedah menafikan ada perjanjian persefahaman (MOU) antara Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak dengan Menteri Besar baru, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir. Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor, yang juga Ketua Penerangan PAS negeri, bagaimanapun, mengesahkan Azizan ada bertemu Mukhriz di Mesir sebagaimana dakwaan pihak tertentu. “Saya ada bersama rombongan Ust Azizan ke Al-Azhar Mesir merundingkan penubuhan ... Read More »

GEORGE TOWN: Polis menahan tiga lelaki yang dipercayai memukul seorang penjaja semasa kempen pilihan raya umum ke-13 di Jalan Perak di sini pada 16 April lepas. Timbalan Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang SAC Datuk Abdul Rahim Jaafar berkata ketiga-tiga suspek yang berumur dalam lingkungan antara 20-an dan 30-an itu menyerah diri di Balai Polis Jelutong empat hari lepas. Sehubungan itu beliau ... Read More »