Not only Perakians can’t wait to show the powers that be, ‘who is the boss’, but the Malaysians in the whole of Malaysia too. Not only the majority of the people are waiting and watching, but the rest of the world too.
From Malaysia Today:
Zambry is not a very smart man
Thursday, 02 April 2009 00:37
The Election Commission which had decided to play politics to ensure that the fraudulent Perak State Government comes into power, will declare that Nizar had made a "fraudulent claim" in the nomination papers!
Martin Jalleh
BN-appointed menteri besar Zambry Abd Kadir thinks he is very slick and smart. Sadly, he has shown himself to be very shallow and slow.
He had very gleefully posed what M’kini called a “pertinent question” to the Menteri Besar of Perak Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin. He had thought he had delightfully delivered a body blow, damned his rival, and driven him to the ground.
Zambry claimed that Nizar had stated his position as ‘Pasir Panjang assemblyman’ and not as ‘menteri besar’ in his nomination papers filed last Saturday, to contest the Bukit Gantang by-election on April 7.
“All this while, he has been telling the whole world he is the lawful menteri besar. So why didn’t he address himself as the menteri besar in the nomination papers?” exclaimed Zambry, much to the delight of the crowd comprising mainly women and the elderly. (M'kini)
The answer is very simple and it reflects how astute a politician Nizar really is. He has taken into account the politicial realities that he has to contend with -- realities that appear more and more grotesque with each passing day in Bukit Gantang.
If he had stated that he is the Menteri Besar of Perak, his victory in the by-election will be challenged by Umno and its cohorts. Yes, this may sound ridiculous, but what is no longer ridiculous with regard to the powers that be? So here goes.
The Election Commission which had decided to play politics to ensure that the fraudulent Perak State Government comes into power, will declare that Nizar had made a "fraudulent claim" in the nomination papers!
Or Umno could resort to an Election Court and they could look for the most junior judge (judicial commissioner) in Perak (which made the judiciary the butt of everyone's jokes by his jaundiced judgments) to decide that Nizar's declaration was technically faulty!
Or the police, under the instructions of the Home Minister, who is slowly being nursed back to health after a badly bruised ego as a result of being rejected by his own party, could arrest Nizar for "impersonation"!
Nizar is not so naive as Zambry so desperately tries to project him. He is a humble man with nerves of steel. In fact, he does not need to state in his nomination papers that he is the true Menteri Besar. We Perakians know it in our hearts, and that would suffice.
It would be best that Zambry zips up, for his ignorance is becoming very glaring especially in Bukit Gantang.
A letter in Malaysiakini:
The numbers show Bkt Gantang will go to PAS (excerpts)
Kenny Gan Apr 1, 09 4:40pm
The Bukit Gantang seat is in no danger of falling to BN. With a demography of 63% Malay and 37% others and with 80% support from the non-Malays, simple arithmetic will show that PAS only needs 32% of the non-Malay vote to tie with BN if we ignore the lone independent who is set to lose his deposit.
As a corollary, BN with 20% non-Malay support will need 68% of the Malay votes for a tie and over 70% for a win.
Can BN in its wildest dream achieve 70% of the Malay vote in this by-election? Malay support for Umno has never exceeded 60% and usually hovers around 55%.
Even the euphoria over Abdullah’s ascension to PM in 2004 only saw 60% Malay support. In 2008, this dropped to 55%.
Meanwhile, PAS will cruise to victory with just 40% of the Malay vote. So which is easier, PAS getting 40% or BN getting 70% of the Malay vote?
If BN persists in campaigning with racial undertones of Nizar being a DAP stooge and the PR Perak government being a Chinese government while Umno itself hiding behind the Malay royalty, it stands to lose even bigger with the sophisticated electorate knowing what the truth is.
Two previous by-elections in which BN exploited the racial sentiment to the hilt have not helped BN to win.
PAS is playing safe in talking down its electoral chances in Bukit Gantang. Overconfidence could snatch defeat from victory if many if its supporters do not bother to come out to vote.
Do not forget that polling day is a working day for which the EC has not bothered to explain the logic behind.
Meanwhile, using the rule of the thumb method, or as Bernard Khoo says
(This is not a smirk, in case anyone mistook Bernard for Zambry! Just that I could not find a suitable smirky pic of the latter which we often see on television)
‘I have no cache of sources so I have to do it Red Indian style’...'put my ear to the ground and read what I hear. What I hear is that the punters have started with a PAS win by 5000. Duke the Whisperer Lone Wolf, who just drove up to Taiping has put his money on 6500.'
"Malaysiakini has given glowing reports of huge crowds at BN rallies as opposed to discouraging numbers at PAS rallies. I was not there so I wont want to comment on that. If that is so it is good for Backdoor Zambri. He needs the encouragement, poor chap, considering the collosal reception that Nizar amassed on Nomination Day. The hokkiens have this saying "pang chiew tampuk" to the weaker opponent.....give some slack before clobbering."
"Sources, not mine, are saying that the Malays seems like the king-maker in Bukit Gantang. I have been putting my ear to the ground (dang....it has been burning my ears because there has been NO RAIN in Taiping the past 2 days.) the Malays are still fuming about the two traitors. This guy in Changkat Jering sums the sentiment of the Malays. He says of the turncoat of Chankat Jering Osman:
“We voted him in because of the party, not because it was him. Must teach him a lesson,” the man explained. "
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