Parliament Dissolution Today. EC To Announce Election Date
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called an unscheduled news conference which was telecast live on RTM1 at noon at his office at Putrajaya where he announced the dissolution of Parliament effective today. Pak Lah had an audience with His Majesty the Yang di-Pertuan Agung Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin earlier this morning and had received his consent to dissolve the 11th Parliament.The prime minister also advised all the state governments, except Sarawak, to dissolve their state assemblies to enable the state elections to be held simultaneously.
The Election Commission will now meet and then announce the nomination and polling dates for the 12th General Elections.
Elections must be conducted within 60 days after Parliament is dissolved, but most recent national ballots have been held less than three weeks after that.
Abdullah led his Barisan Nasional coalition to a landslide victory in the last elections in 2004, when it won 90% of parliamentary seats.
But coalition leaders have acknowledged they are unlikely to repeat the feat amid challenges such as rising inflation, crime and tensions in this multiracial society because of dissatisfaction among ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities over alleged discrimination.
The 11th general election was held on March 21, 2004, 17 days after the dissolution of Parliament.
A total of 222 parliamentary seats will be contested this time, three more than in the last election due to the new seats in Sarawak following the electoral delineation in 2006. At the state level, 505 seats will be contested.
Before today's dissolution, the BN held 199 seats in the Dewan Rakyat and the opposition 20, with the DAP holding 12, PAS six and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and an independent, one each.
Abdullah said the government dissolved parliament 15 months before the current mandate ended as it wanted a new mandate to continue its development programmes.
He hoped that voters would show strong support for the BN in the general election for their own benefit. "I hope the voters understand the issues in the country, evaluate them objectively and give their votes to BN," he said.
Abdullah was confident that BN would win big based on the government's performance and its ability to fulfil its promises to the people.
Furthermore, he said, the programmes implemented had benefited the people.
Labels: Elections, Malaysian Politics.
posted by The Malaysian. at 2/13/2008 01:00:00 PM
9 Comments:
Time for all to think about the nations future. Don't get hoodwinked by all the sweet talk by BN.
Recall back what had happened to us in the fast few year. The erosion of our rights, scandal after scandal, ineffective police, price hike, racial intolerance, body snatching etc. etc.
God we can go on forever.
Think back properly and vote. Don't be easily satisfied with a bloody public holiday and a miserable 20 mil. for Tamil School.
WE DESERVE BETTER!!!
That's a good point - we must not forget the really really bad things. We need to make a list of
a) all the candidates for BN who have or are being investigated or connected to investigations for corruption, crimes and scandals. Some of these people will be standing in this election (Najib?)
b) ineffective and unfair policies that have caused pain and wronged the people, and the poor effort of people with the power to do so to correct them - examples; ridiculous toll concessionary agreements that were not even properly explained, record number of our children hurt and dying in BN run National Service camps which have not met their objectives, caused more harm and do not have transparent budgets - just another vehicle to channel money to cronies and self
c) scandals perpetuated and tolerated by powers in government - examples: local councillors not elected by the people amassing vast amounts of money and power and not being punished
We have been waiting for this for quite some time now.
We all know the issues. We all know the scandals. We all know the lies, deceit, corruption, cronysm, intolerance, Racial inequality (the list is never ending, just like the Never Ending Poilcy, NEP)!
Yes, it has not been all bad but it has been getting worse.
The promises that were made in the last Elections...were never fulfilled.
So now, there are more promises. We are asked to give "them" another strong Mandate?!
Let's give them something to remember for the next few years.
It's time to have a true "Bangsa Malaysia". It's time we stopped this Racial & Intolerant rubbish.
The Aussies showed Howard what they thought of his Govt. We can do the same. We are always saying Malaysia Boleh! Let's prove it!
Give our Opposition the strenght they need to help us move forward!
Allah help us!
Will be a killer weapon for justice and Malaysia for someone to compile a golden list with citations of all those crooked wanted criminals and paste them by the hundreds of thousands on every lamp-post as enemies of Malaysia and humankind for eg 1 zakaria
2 momgolian killer/s
3 close one eye
4 leaking c
5 keris vibrating
6 private yatch/plane owner
7 chief justice
8 ap queens
etc etc etc ad infintium
maybe that may well wake up some dozing tv3 ntv7 and astro addicts to come out and do something good for the country for once
The sad reality is that votes against the government are going to be protest votes rather than confidence in the opposition. I sometimes wonder why the opposition has yet to learn from their past failures, and sought to portray a truly professional, credible and statesmen-like sense to their attempt to counter the BN.
A bunch of armchair warriors with too much time on their hands and nothing better to do than criticize the gomen. Pak Lah should talk the talk and walk the walk? If you feel this much aggrieved, get up from your armchairs and do something about it, why don’t you? All this whinging is supposed to get us somewhere? If you succeed, good for you. if you fail, as least you tried. Right?
By the way, he said yesterday that he will not dissolve Parliment & today he does it. Isn't that an outright lie?
What other lies has he told?
What other lies has he told?
How about the one telling us that he is fair, when he was referring to his skin-whitening products which enabled his skin to be fair?
What do you expect from the chief liar who has learned well from his predecessor? The latter is now putting up a show with his cronies and the commission. Looks like there's a bigger sendiwara and better actor who beat all of them fools.
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