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Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:38 PM PST

The EC is BN's last bastion to cling to power and the only way to curb its shenanigans is for the rakyat to come out in droves to monitor vote tallying

Selena Tay, FMT

A neutral Chinese political analyst who is a friend of this columnist has informed that it is possible for Pakatan Rakyat to win the 13th general election by 118 seats, with BN getting 104. The total number of parliamentary seats is 222.

However, he also cautioned that hooligans may disrupt the general election campaign or the vote-counting process, thereby making it possible for the Election Commission (EC) to annul the polls results.

Certainly, anything can happen in the current political scenario and therefore the rakyat are encouraged to come out in full force to vote besides volunteering their time to monitor the election process, to prevent foreign workers from voting and also to prevent extra ballot boxes from being brought in to sabotage the results.

The situation here is such that the rakyat must work hard to usher in the change that they want. Indications are already at hand that Pakatan has enough support to win the 13th general election and the figure of 118 seats had already factored in the phantom/dubious/foreign voters.

However, the EC is Barisan Nasional's last bastion in its attempt to hold on to power and the only way to curb the EC's shenanigans is to come out in droves on the night the results are being tallied.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has in fact already lost the general election, in a manner of speaking, and that is why he does not seem to have the sense of urgency to hold the polls.

"The rakyat have to be prepared to face any eventuality. Najib has even now lost much of the Indian support," said M Manogaran, DAP's Teluk Intan MP.

"Perhaps all this is happening because people are just fed up of BN. The RM500 cash aid can only sustain most of the urban poor for one month but what about the rest of the 11 months?" asked Manogaran.

DAP blogger Aspan Alias opined that there are people who are still contented with getting chicken curry without the chicken meat because the chicken curry still has the chicken meat's flavour.

In BN's desperation to stay in power, all sorts of tactics will be used. So do not be surprised if your name is missing from the electoral roll on polling day.

Klang MP, DAP's Charles Santiago, has already pointed out that 5,000 names have disappeared from the electoral roll in his constituency.

BN has lost Malay/Indian support

This simply means that BN will do anything and everything in order to stay in power. After its victory at the polls, you can be sure that the price of fuel will go up, GST (goods and services tax) will be imposed and the cost of living will shoot up drastically.

Reports from all the grassroots who are friends of this columnist now show that BN has lost much of the Malay and Indian support although still holding on strong in Sabah and Sarawak due to the lack of information in those areas.

Many of those who do the groundwork surveys told this columnist that people are now curious and want to see what the new federal government is like.

Therefore Umno leaders these days sing the old tune of Malay supremacy by saying that if Umno falls, the Malays will fall, too, while at the same time conveniently forgetting to mention that PAS is also Malay.

The battle is on for the Malay vote. It is BN's practice to divide and rule.

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SAPP-Pakatan: It just ain’t working out

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:41 PM PST

SAPP president Yong Teck Lee is adamant that the party must stick to its principle that a Sabah-based party must take the majority of the state assembly seats.

Calvin Kabaron, FMT

KOTA KINABALU: Mistrust and uncertainty within Sabah's opposition politics could well indeed translate into a free-for-all fight at the coming general election.

Yesterday Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) supreme council met in Likas near here and snippets leaked out indicated that things may not be going too well with its alliance with PKR-led Pakatan Rakyat.

Insider information noted that party president Yong Teck Lee implied that if things don't work out as it should, then SAPP could well be on a collision course with its newly-found allies PKR and DAP in many seats.

The former Barisan Nasional (BN) chief minister told his comrades that SAPP must stick to its "principle" that a local-based party must take the majority of the state assembly seats, something that PKR's Anwar Ibrahim had signaled to SAPP at one time that Pakatan would be willing to concede or consider.

But, to many observers here, that was typical of Anwar's trademark style which was to entice Yong and SAPP to come aboard the Pakatan ship first.

One SAPP leader told FMT that at yesterday's meeting Yong appeared adamant to go for majority state seats (60 in Sabah) purely on what he termed as "on the principle of Sabah autonomy".

"That means he may even defy PKR's seat 'arrangement' with SAPP if the former repudiate," he said.

PKR, emboldened by its recent coup of two BN's defector parliamentarians in Wilfred Bumburing and Lajim Ukin, is unlikely to concede much to Yong and Chinese-based SAPP.

"Yong anticipates that where PKR would not contest (in Sabah), DAP would do so to take on SAPP just to frustrate SAPP and that Anwar could not do anything about it," the SAPP leader stressed.

Trouble in STAR

Meanwhile, over the weekend, another pivotal Sabah opposition leader, Jeffrey Kitingan, told the local press that he was scheduled to meet Yong today.

He however cautioned supporters not to expect too much from the meeting.

The State Reform Party (STAR) he leads in Sabah, while still open to work a minimum seat arrangement with SAPP, is actually poised to leave SAPP out after Yong made his own deals with Anwar on Sabah's seats.

As of yesterday, an insider in STAR claimed that majority of its leaders, more than half are young Turks and many are green horns in politics, wanted their leader to be decisive instead of dragging until last minute to decide on seats and candidates.

Many within STAR complained that Jeffrey's dragging his feet on candidacy and playing "openness" with other players had denied the party a more rigorous campaigning at the grassroots level.

"It would be different if you know you are the candidate already, we can go straight away from house-to-house campaign already.

"But with uncertainty, many potential candidates just shy away from too much promotion which is bad for the party which is already lacking in funds," said one potential candidate who requested anonymity.

He alleged some very good potential candidates from STAR have yet to resign from their employment jobs, fearing they would not be fielded in the end.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 02:09 PM PST

Prominent lawyer Rosli Dahlan, who has dealt with Musa Hassan first hand, has an answer as to why the ex-IGP is reappearing in the media spotlight, flanked by PKR members.

Anisah Shukry, FMT

Musa Hassan's sudden criticism of the government and the police is an attempt to reinvent his image and cosy up to Pakatan Rakyat out of fear that should the Barisan Nasional government fall, his head will be the first to roll, according to lawyer Rosli Dahlan.

The prominent lawyer, who previously represented Musa's rival, ex CCID chief Ramli Yusuff, is currently pursuing a legal suit against Utusan Malaysia and 16 others in a case related to the former inspector-general of police's purported links with underworld figures.

As such, Rosli has first hand experience with Musa and has nothing but scorn for the ex top-cop as well as his recent revelations of alleged ministerial interference and criminal elements in the police.

"Musa is a manipulator, opportunist and a liar. He is a principal lecturer at UiTM in media warfare, so we should not be surprised that he is using the media to reinvent his image," he told FMT.

"Clearly, Musa knows he will be in trouble if Pakatan forms the next government," added Rosli.

Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Mat Zain previously accused Musa of fabricating evidence in Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's 1998 black eye Incident.

Rosli said Musa was also the investigating officer in Anwar's first sodomy charge and the incumbent IGP when the second sodomy charge was "orchestrated".

"So it is no surprise that he now becomes a turncoat, against the government that gave him his mercurial rise to be IGP and enjoyed two extensions by contract in order to save his own skin," he added.

Musa appeared at a press conference late last month with several NGO leaders linked to the opposition, fuelling speculation that he would be joining Pakatan Rakyat soon.

The press briefing was organised by a new NGO called the Malaysian Crime Watch Task, or MyWatch, and was the setting for which Musa dropped the bombshell that ministers allegedly meddled in police investigations.

Anwar later said that PKR was open to Musa joining them if he wished to do so, although Musa had firmly stated that he would remain neutral.

'Leopard does not change its spots'

Commenting on this, Rosli said: "PKR must not forget the history of this man; a leopard does not change its spots."

"To me, for PKR to be a credible opposition, it shouldn't use characters who are known to have manipulated the system and fabricated evidence," he added.

Rosli recounted that the ex-IGP's own aide, ASP Noor Azizul Rahim Taharim, had called Musa a "pengkhianat" (traitor) in a 2009 statutory declaration (SD).

The document accused Musa of a slew of wrongdoings during his tenure and exposed how Musa had allegedly manipulated the police succession hierarchy with his associate, an underworld figure known as BK Tan, as well as silencing critics with transfers and trumped up charges.

"Never before in the history of this country has an active serving IGP faced such an accusation from his own ADC (aide de camp)," said Rosli.

"As for being a liar, it is not what I say, but the various people who have dealt with Musa including the damning judgment by Sessions Judge Supang Lian of the Kota Kinabalu court," he added.

Rosli was referring to the 2007 case levelled by Musa against Ramli. Musa had accused Ramli of abusing his power in using a police Cessna plane for his personal benefit. However, the judge found that Ramli was in full uniform and was escorted by four other uniformed police personnel while conducting a border surveillance patrol.

"If the prosecution was serious about finding out the truth, they should have called the two police pilots as the first and second witnesses. Instead, the pilots were called close to the end of the trial. DPP Kevin Morais also amended the charge several times. That is how insidious these people are," added Rosli.

Ramli was eventually acquitted without his defence being called.

When Musa became the final witness for the prosecution in order to rebut the other police witnesses who had given evidence supporting Ramli, the judge delivered the following stinging judgment against Musa:

"[Musa's] evidence is unreliable and is to be disregarded and whatever he says in court lends to his discredit. I am in total agreement with the case for the defence that this lack of support of the evidence of [Musa] on this point lends to his discredit… I found however that the evidence of [Musa] on this to be unreliable and to be disregarded."

According to Rosli that was a polite way of calling an active serving IGP a liar.

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