Hazayani Zakaria

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Mac: Dewan Pemuda PAS Pusat (DPPP) berpandangan pilihan raya pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) yang mahu diadakan di Selangor dan Pulau Pinang belum sesuai dilaksanakan buat masa ini kerana sistem pengendalian pilihan raya itu sendiri masih  tidak telus.

Ketuanya, Nasrudin Hasan (gambar) ketika bercakap dalam satu sidang [...]

Senator S Ramakrishnan

Saturday, 13 March 2010 11:36

The legislation of Local Authorities elections ordinance in 1950 entrusted local councils to organize elections for the office of the councilors, who are the people who govern local area.

Subsequently amendments were made to this legislation to empower residents to establish more local councils [...]

Richard Teo
Mar 11, 10
4:45pm

All local councils, if not most, are located in urban areas. And most urban areas are populated by the Chinese. If elections were to be held, all local councils would be taken over by the urban Chinese. The only exception would be in Terengganu and Kelantan and even these two states may [...]

hird vote – PM should emulate Penang

Faisal Mustaffa
Mar 11, 10
4:43pm

We refer to the Malaysiakini report Penang moves to restore local gov’t elections.The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) urges Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to match Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s and Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim’s latest reform move [...]

hird vote: Three ‘opinions versus facts’

1Chance4Malaysia
Mar 10, 10
9:00pm

Opinion 1: ‘Reviving local government elections will only give rise to politicking.’ Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Fact 1: On the contrary, it will pave the way to the breaking up the grossly influential patronage system, among others, that has been deeply embedded in the Malaysian political psyche.

Gerakan’s Keng Liang is what BN needs

Jamiliah
Mar 10, 10
8:57pm

I refer to the Malaysiakini report ‘No local elections’: Gerakan, Pakatan tick off PM.

I refer to the above report yesterday about Gerakan’s Tan Keng Liang going against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in supporting the holding local council elections by Pakatan Rakyat.

I think [...]

Independent Reader
Mar 10, 10
8:55pm

I refer to the Malaysiakini report Local elections: S’gor to follow Penang.

A few questions come to my mind. First, why is Pakatan Rakyat only start to talk about these local council elections only now? It is already more than two years since we voted them in.

And from my [...]

Bypassing EC for local council elections

ypassing EC for local council elections

Maria Chin Abdullah
Mar 9, 10
6:09pm

The Coalition for Good Governance (CGG) applauds the Penang and the Selangor state governments for their political maturity in responding to the peoples’ call to bring back local council elections.

CGG hopes that other state governments will also follow suit [...]

PM: Local gov’t polls unnecessary

Mar 9, 10 11:42am

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said it was unnecessary to hold local government elections as it would cause too much politicking.

Najib said instead of electing local government representatives, he said the focus should be instead on improving services of local authorities.

“The focus should be on providing [...]

Yoong Pui Shen
Jan 25, 10
3:03pm

Several political parties and non-governmental organisations more or less agreed that the Election Commission (EC) should introduce advance voting, but some were more skeptical about the proposed two-day cooling off period.

Yunus Ali, president, National Institute for Electoral Integrity

Based on my experience of the Thai electoral process,Early voting is good, But the [...]