Karpal To Anwar: Step Down As Pakatan Head

nampaknya dah goyah la PR nih..belum perintah negara lagi

aku rasa kalau Anwar tak jadi ketua, PR ni pun takde kot

BY-ELECTION PERMATANG PAUH ~ MALAYSIA's ANWAR WON ?

ANWAR IS LEADING BY NEARLY 13,000 VOTES AS AT 9PM

BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is leading the vote count in the Permatang Pauh parliamentary by-election as of 9pm Tuesday night.

The preliminary vote count showed that at 9pm, Anwar was leading by 12,912 votes after securing 23,674 votes compared to Barisan Nasional (BN)'s Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah's 10,762 and Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia (Akim) Hanafi Mamat (72).

The vote-tallying, which started at 6.35pm, was still in progress at the Aminuddin Baki Hall of the Tuanku Bainun Teacher's Institute.

A total of 38,144 or 65.45 per cent of the 58,459 voters cast their votes in the by-election at the close of polling at 5pm.

The official result is expected to be announced at 10pm.

Meanwhile, PKR election machinery director in Penang, Mustafa Kamal Mohd Yusof said Anwar was leading by 15,000 votes.

MALAYSIA OPPOSITION CLAIMS VICTORY FOR ANWAR

PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia - Malaysia's opposition has claimed a landslide victory for its leader, Anwar Ibrahim, in a special election.

Anwar's People's Justice Party said he is expected to win at least 70 percent of Tuesday's vote for a seat in Parliament. Anwar is pitted against the governing National Front coalition's Arif Shah Omar Shah in Permatang Pauh.

Tian Chua, an official of the Justice Party, told The Associated Press that there is "firm indication of a landslide victory for Anwar."

Chua says the voters have given "a sound endorsement to Anwar." He says Anwar is expected to get at least 70 percent of the vote.

Anwar's supporters were citing partial results, based on counting being conducted by the Election Commission.

MALAYSIA's ANWAR WON 61 PERCENT OF VOTE : PARTY EXIT POLLS?

PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia (AFP) - - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's party said Tuesday its exit polls indicate he has won 61 percent of the votes in a by-election expected to return him to parliament.

"From our exit poll figures and what we are tracking, Anwar is safely leading in the polls and... I think that it is right to say about 61 percent," said Sivarasa Rasiah, vice president of the Keadilan party.

Sivarasa said that Anwar's opponent from the Barisan Nasional coalition, Arif Shah Omar Shah, had garnered about 39 percent of the vote.

"We are still not declaring victory as we will wait for the official election results from the Election Commission," he told AFP.

OVER 26,000 HAVE CAST THEIR VOTES BY NOON

BUKIT MERTAJAM, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- Nearly half of the 58,459 constituents in Permatang Pauh have cast their votes in the by-election as of noon today.

Election Commission secretary Datuk Kamaruzaman Mohd Noor said 26,914 or 42.98 per cent of the voters had exercised their rights as of noon but the figure, though inspiring, was slow to pick up due to the traffic jams in the polling areas.

Rain in areas like Seberang Jaya and Sama Gagah since noon is expected to affect the voter turnout. The Meteorological Department had forecast rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon.

BY-ELECTION PERMATANG PAUH

PERMATANG PAUH, Malaysia (AFP) - - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he was confident of victory Tuesday as he cast his vote in a by-election set to return him to parliament after 10 years in the wilderness.

Victory would bolster his bid to seize the reins of political power in what would be a remarkable comeback a decade after he was sacked as deputy premier and jailed on sodomy and corruption charges.

Hundreds of his supporters shouted the opposition battlecry of "Reformasi" (reform) as Anwar arrived at a polling station here with his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, flanked by a dozen bodyguards.

"God-willing, I'm confident of winning," a cheerful Anwar told reporters after casting his ballot. "The people are extremely enthusiastic about voting. We are entering parliament with a clear agenda."

However, he criticised the government's intensely negative campaign which focused on new sodomy allegations against him, saying the results were likely to be skewed by electoral fraud and vote-rigging.

"This is the most sickening election. They attack me, saying I am pro-Jewish which is an act of desperation," he said.

"We fear fraud. We are not happy with the ballot list.

"It's not Anwar versus the other candidate, it's Anwar versus the entire government machinery," he added, as a police helicopter circled overhead at the voting centre located in a stronghold of his Keadilan party.

Permatang Pauh By-Election 26 August 2008

(Bernama) -- The people of Permatang Pauh will come out to vote again Tuesday, this time in a by-election for the parliamentary seat after it was left vacant by the candidate they voted in five months ago in the March 8 general election.

The stiff contest is still between Barisan Nasional (BN) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and AKIM but the candidates this time are different, where BN is fielding community-friendly, multi-lingual Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah, 51, while Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, 61, is standing for PKR and Hanafi Mamat for AKIM.

Will there be any significant changes after the election? Wallahualam

Malaysia's Anwar: Sodomy Charges — Again

saja nak letak pasal ni dlm posting aku...walaupun aku takdela ikhlas sgt nak letak pun...apa korang rasa ek dgn cite2 politik kat msia lately nih.....aku sebenarnya dah rasa boring sgt2.....politician too bz berpolitik la aku rasa....

by Sabrina Chan

History is repeating itself in politically embattled Malaysia. "This is malicious slander, and I'm not guilty," declared former Deputy Prime Minister and current opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim, 60, on Aug. 7 in court after being formally charged for allegedly sodomizing a male aide, 23-year-old Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Anwar, who spent more than five years in jail before a court threw out earlier charges in 2004, helped power a strong performance by the three main opposition parties in national elections last February. The leader of a new opposition alliance, he recently announced his intention to run in a by-election on Aug. 26 for a seat in Parliament that had been held by his wife, Wan Azizah, who resigned to pave the way for his formal return to politics.

Although current Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has repeatedly denied being behind the charges, many analysts see the allegations as politically motivated. (While homosexuality is not illegal in Malaysia, it is against sharia law that applies to the country's majority Muslim population.) Anwar denies any wrongdoing, and his legal team has released a medical report issued by a hospital in Kuala Lumpur stating that the alleged victim showed no sign of being assaulted. R. Sivarasa, a lawyer representing Anwar, is confident of winning the case. "It will have no impact whatsoever on the by-elections. There will be no legal bar against contesting, and we will proceed to focus on the key issues of the campaign," says Sivarasa, who is also vice-president of Anwar's People's Justice Party (PKR). "It is a matter of time before he becomes the next Prime Minister."

The ruling coalition has reason to worry about Anwar, who despite the latest charges is free on personal bond and can run in the by-election. Should he win, he will be well-positioned to lead the opposition alliance consisting of the PKR, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), and multiracial Democratic Action Party (DAP). "This will be the mother of all by-elections," says Tricia Yeoh, director of the Center for Public Policy Studies in Kuala Lumpur, who believes that the international community will be watching closely what happens.

source: Businessweek

Debat Datuk Seri Anwar dan Datuk Shabery

korang tgk tak tadi....menarik gak debat nih

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