PUTRAJAYA: The Election Commission has agreed to PAS’ request that postal votes in the Bagan Pinang by-election be placed under the safe-keeping of the returning officer instead of at the army camp or police station. EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusoff said the commission had agreed to this as the request was “reasonable”. [...]
PORT DICKSON: Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad is glad that he is finally coming “home”. Home for the Barisan Nasional candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election is the kampung in the constituency where he grew up and where he knew the village folks and their families by their first names. “I am glad [...]
PORT DICKSON: It’s a straight fight between Barisan Nasional and PAS in the Bagan Pinang by-election on Oct 11. This is after former Parti Keadilan Rakyat member Shahruddin Abdul Hamid, who quit the party to contest in the polls, failed to get a proposer to enable him to stand as [...]
PORT DICKSON: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is confident that Chinese voters in Bagan Pinang will support Barisan Nasional in the Oct 11 by-election as they are more than comfortable with the country’s new leadership. He said the Chinese, as other Malaysians, were receptive of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s [...]
PEKAN: Voters in Bagan Pinang should vote in a representative who can help resolve their problems in the constituency, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. He said the effectiveness of the elected representative should be the yardstick for voters. “We must realise that a by-election like the one in Bagan Pinang [...]
PORT DICKSON: Umno supreme council member Datuk Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim has lodged a police report alleging he was assaulted while making his way to the nomination centre here. He claimed that the incident happened yesterday while he was walking through an area filled with PAS supporters towards the Port Dickson Municipal Council hall. [...]
PKR’s Shahruddin Abdul Hamid, who has announced his intention to contest the Bagan Pinang by-election as an independent, was advised to resign over “a personal matter” recently. Revealing this yesterday, state PKR secretary Sabaruddin Mohd Yassim said Shahruddin, who was employed as an office assistant, was told to resign from the service [...]
Postal voting for the Bagan Pinang by-election will be held on Oct 8 and 9. Election Commission secretary Datuk Ngah Senik said this was necessary as there were 4,604 postal voters in the constituency. “In the 2008 general election, more than 800 ballot papers were not returned and some 200 were [...]
The Bagan Pinang by-election is likely to see a three-cornered fight, following the decision by Teluk Kemang PKR division committee member Shahrudin Abdul Hamid to contest as an independent. Shahrudin, 52, who stated his intention to contest, claimed that he had enough support to win. “I am prepared to quit PKR [...]
Former PAS candidate for the Bagan Pinang seat Ramli Ismail has pledged to give his full support to the party’s state commissioner Zulkefly Mohamad Omar in the by-election. “Zulkefly and I are drawing up strategies to get support from the constituents,” the 61-year-old retired warrant officer said. Ramli was among the [...]
