13,268,002 rakyat Malaysia layak mengundi PRU 13 pada 5 Mei 2013

PUTRAJAYA: Hari pengundian bagi pilihan raya umum ke-13 ditetapkan pada Ahad 5 Mei,manakala tarikh penamaan calon pada 20 April,Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) mengumumkan pada Rabu.

Pengundian awal ditetapkan pada 30 April.

Tempoh berkempen ialah selama 15 hari. Tempoh berkempen pada pilihan raya umum 2008 ialah selama 13 hari.

Hiew Ignorant of Sabah Rights - STAR

KOTA KINABALU: DAP's Member of Parliament, Hiew King Chew, fails to see the reality of Sabah's dire needs within the federation because he is a member of a Malayan-based party, says State Reform Party (STAR).

 

STAR Sabah's Information Chief Edward Linggu said this in a statement in response to Hiew who had told voters not to waste votes on STAR and SAPP yesterday. He claimed that  a STAR or SAPP state government wouldn't be able to function because it will be an opposition state even if PR took over Putrajaya, just like PBS government was after it was the state opposition government.

 

Generasi muda kurang tahu Sejarah Batu Sumpah Keningau

Oleh:  Roger  Binson  A.S

KENINGAU: Batu  setinggi  4  kaki  yang  terpacak  teguh  di  hadapan  bangunan  Urusetia   Keningau  merupakan  bahan  sejarah  yang  amat  berharga  bagi  masyarakat  Sabah  khususnya  di  pedalaman. Malangnya  pada   masa  kini   generasi muda  hanya mengenali batu  itu  tidak lebih dari sekadar landskap  bagi  menceriakan  kawasan  sekitarnya.

Kemerdekaan  Malaya  pada  tahun  1957  turut  memberi  kesan  kepada  masayarakat  Borneo  Utara(Sabah)  untuk  mendapat  kemerdekaan  sendiri  daripada  kerajaan  British.  Pada  tahun  1962 beberapa  komuniti  antara   kerajaan  yang  di  wakili  oleh kerajaan Inggeris,Malaya,Sarawak,  Burneo  Utara  dan   Singapura telah  berbincang mengenai impilakasi  tentang  penubuhan  Perseketuan  Malaysia.Komuniti  ini   di  kenali  sebagai  Suruhanjaya  Cobbold  dan  ini  merupakan  bermulanya  sejarah  penting  tahun  1963  dalam  sejarah  Borneo  Utara(Sabah)  yang  menyaksikan  berakhirnya  era  penjajahan  oleh  kuasa  British.
 

Mere ‘fraud’ not consideration in 13th GE

By Joe Fernandez   

Malaysians by and large worry that “fraudulent practices” by way of the electoral rolls and at the ballot box will cheat them out of the Government they want in Putrajaya and in the states. This should not be read as having a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Government in the Federal Administrative Centre instead of one formed by the Barisan Nasional (BN).

Fraud can work both ways although the outgoing BN, revamped from the Alliance Party in the wake of the searing Sino-Malay race riots of 13 May, 1969, has ruled the country since 1957 when the British left Malaya.

Fraud in Malaysian politics never-ending

By Joe Fernandez

If the 1987 Umno presidential election is taken as one yardstick, the response of the Court may not be in favour of a novel development of the law or, as some would allege, making law.

In that party election, the Court discovered that votes from 30 illegal party branches may have contributed towards Mahathir Mohamad’s narrow 43-vote victory over his challenger Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. It was alleged that the 30 illegal branches were aligned towards Mahathir. Even so, in a surprising ruling, Judge Harun Hashim declared the entire party unlawful. Had the Judge concluded that the illegal votes may have gone in the direction of Razaleigh, that ruling would not have arisen since the outcome was not affected!