Ceramah Guan Eng Di Kuala Ibai, malam 23 Mac 2010

Sidang Media Khas Kejayaan Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Yang di Terajui DAP di pulau Pinang pada 23 Mac, jam 9.30 malam di Kuala Ibai




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Ceramah Guan Eng Kuala Ibai 23 mac, 2010

Sekitar Lawatan Lim Guan Eng Ke Kuala Terengganu

Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, YAB Lim Guan Eng Telah Mengadakan Lawatan sehari Ke Kuala Terengganu pada 23 mAC, 2010

Beliau sampai sekitar jam 4 petang dengan menaiki Kelas ekonomi, turun di Lpan Terbang Kuala Terengganu

Dalam masa yang singkat, beliau telah menghadiri 3 acara besar bersama Pakatan Rakyat Terengganu.





Pada jam 6 Petang, beliau telah melawat Tokong yang terbakar di Kampung Cina sebelum berjalan ke Kampung Tiong untuk menghadiri program bersama masyarakat.





Ucapan YAB Lim Guan Eng, Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang merangkap Stiausaha Agung DAP dalam majlis Minum Petang Bersama Masyarakat Anjuran PAS Terengganu di kampung Tiong Kuala Terengganu



Sidang Media selepas Majlis Tersebut

Majlis Makan Malam Bersama YAB Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang

Hanya 22% Cina anggap MCA relevan

Hanya 22% orang Cina di Malaysia yang menganggap bahawa MCA relevan, berbanding 28% yang berkata "tidak" dan "agak tidak relevan", sementara 45% memilih jawapan "agak" (somewhat) relevan. Demikianlah hasilnya menurut satu soal selidik yang dikendalikan oleh Merdeka Center, yang mengutip pandangan daripada orang awam.

Walaupun laporan soal selidik tersebut berjudul "Kebanyakan Cina menganggap MCA masih relevan, cuma mempunyai perasaan berbaur terhadap pemilihan semula", tetapi pada hakikatnya, responden keturunan Cina yang menganggap MCA masih relevan hanyalah 22%.

Ketika menjawab soalan "Adakah MCA masih relevan kepada masyarakat Cina hari ini?" dalam soal selidik tersebut, hanya 22% responden Cina bersetuju, dan 45% menjawab "agak relevan"; di samping 9% berkata "tidak relevan" dan 20% berkata "agak tidak relevan". 4% yang selebihnya menjawab tidak tahu atau tiada maklum balas.

Penilaian kaum bukan-Cina terhadap MCA lebih rendah, iaitu 14% Melayu yang menganggap MCA masih relevan terhadap masyarakat Cina, sebanyak 33% menganggap MCA tidak relevan dan agak tidak relevan, sementara 46% memilih "agak relevan" (somewhat) terhadap masyarakat Cina.

Ong Ka Ting menduduki kedudukan ke-4

Antara pemimpin MCA, Menteri Pengangkatan yang menjalankan siasatan terhadap skandal Zon Bebas Pelabuhan Klang (PKFZ), Ong Tee Keat berada pada kedudukan teratas. Seramai 34% orang responden (30% Cina, 36% Melayu, 36% India) menganggap Ong Tee Keat berkemampuan untuk memimpin MCA, disusuli Liow Tiong Lai (Menteri Kesihatan) dengan 16% (10% Cina, 18% Melayu, 18% India).

Chua Soi Lek berada pada tempat ketiga dengan 12% responden (12%Cina, 12% Melayu, 12% India) yang menyetujui kemampuannya, sementara bekas Presiden MCA Ong Ka Ting yang kembali bertanding berada pada kedudukan keempat, dengan hanya 10% responden (15% Cina, 8% Melayu, 8% India) menyetujui kemampuannya untuk memimpin MCA.

Soal selidik turut mengumpul pandangan samada Ong Tee Keat, Chua Soi Lek dan Ong Ka Ting harus menarik diri dari pemilihan semula, lebih daripada 60% responden menganggap Ong Tee Keat (65%) dan Ong Ka Ting (63%) harus bertanding, tetapi hanya 50% responden yang bersetuju bahawa Chua Soi Lek harus bertanding.

Ketika ditanya pandangan terhadap pemimpin perseorangan, 60% responden Cina menganggap Ong Tee Keat (gambar kiri) harus bertanding, 24% menganggap beliau harus berundur, 13% memberi jawapan tidak tahu dan 3% tidak menjawab. Apa yang menarik, peratusan Melayu dan India yang menyetujui agar Ong Tee Keat tampil bertanding lebih tinggi daripada Cina, dengan Melayu 68% dan India 70%. Sebaliknya, 16% Melayu dan 14% India menganggap Ong Tee Keat harus berundur.

Untuk Chua Soi Lek pula, terdapat 47% Cina, 47% Melayu dan 63% India menganggap beliau harus bertanding, di samping 38% Cina, 35% Melayu dan 20% India menganggap beliau harus berundur.

Lebih daripada 69% Melayu menganggap Ong Ka Ting (gambar kanan) harus bertanding, Cina dan India yang berkongsi pandangan ini hanya 57% dan 64% masing-masing. Sementara itu, 28% Cina, 13% Melayu dan 18% India menganggap Ong Ka Ting harus berundur.

Kebanyakan orang masih mengikuti perkembangan MCA

Berbeza dengan pemerhatian sesetengah penganalisa politik yang menganggap masyarakat sudah mual dengan berita MCA, kebanyakan Cina, Melayu dan India masih mengikuti perkembangan MCA. Media disarat dengan berita MCA, menjurus kepada 75% responden yang berkata mereka mengikuti perkembangan parti komponen BN kedua terbesar itu. 73% Melayu, 82% Cina dan 62% India mengakui bahawa mereka mengikuti perkembangan MCA.

Ketika ditanya sejauh manakah mereka mengikuti perkembangan MCA, 23% daripada 202 orang responden Cina berkata "tidak kerap", 31% berkata "kadang-kala", 28% berkata "selalu", dan 18% menjawab "tidak tahu". Daripada 352 orang responden Melayu, hanya 21% mengikuti perkembangan MCA, 27% menjawab tidak tahu. Apa yang menarik, daripada 47 orang responden India, 38% berkata "tidak tahu".

Kebanyakan responden menganggap bahawa kekalahan dalam PRU ke-12 merupakan punca kemelut parti, dengan 25% Cina, 41% Melayu dan 45% India berkongsi pandangan bahawa kedudukan MCA menjadi lemah selepas dilanda "tsunami politik". 22% Cina, 12% Melayu dan 9% India menganggap pendedahan skandal PKFZ adalah punca utama pergelutan MCA, di samping 17% Cina, 17% Melayu dan 18% India melihat pemecatan Chua Soi Lek (gambar kiri) berikutan skandal seksnya sebagai punca utama kemelut MCA.

Apabila diajukan soalan apakah ciri-ciri pimpinan MCA yang diharapkan, 13% responden mahu pemimpin tampil untuk menyuarakan pandangan ketika berdepan dengan isu penting; diikuti kejujuran 9%, adil dan demokratik 8%, pimpinan yang baik 8%, bekerjasama dan bersatu padu 6%, berdaya saing 6%, bersih, beretika dan bermoral 5%.

805 orang responden

Sampel responden soal selidik ini dipilih secara rambang oleh Merdeka Center. Seramai 805 orang yang berusia 21 tahun ke atas dipilih dari semenanjung Malaysia dan soal selidik dijalankan melalui panggilan telefon.

Soal selidik dijalankan antara 17 hingga 23 Mac 2010, dengan ralat kira-kira 3.50%. Isu yang berlaku ketika soal selidik ini dijalankan termasuklah pencalonan pemilihan semula MCA, persidangan parlimen ke-12 penggal ketiga, perhimpunan orang asli di Putrajaya, dan pertikaian antara TNB dengan penduduk Rawang.

Menurut hasil kajian Merdeka Center, responden terdiri daripada Melayu (60%), Cina (30%), India (9%) dan lain-lain (1%). Pada masa yang sama, responden terdiri daripada 61% muslim, 21% Buddist, 8% Hindu dan 5% kristian.

Sampel responden yang berusia antara 21 hingga 60 tahun ini kebanyakannya dari golongan muda, dengan 47% yang taraf pendidikannya tamat pengajian sekolah menengah. 58% terdiri daripada penduduk bandar dan 42% terdiri daripada penduduk kampung.

Selain itu, lebih daripada 50% responden tidak berpengalaman akses kepada internet, hampir 50% responden tidak bekerja dan 36% responden yang mempunyai pendapatan keluarga kurang daripada RM1,500.

*Laporan daripada MerdekaReview.

PKR defectors’ independence questioned

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) politicians and analysts have dismissed a suggestion that the recent defection of two PKR MPs and the threat of more defections would result in the emergence of a bloc of Independent lawmakers in Parliament.

PAS national unity committee chairman Mujahid Yusof Rawa scoffed at the possibility of an Independent bloc in Parliament and said that in Malaysian politics, there was no such thing as a “truly independent” lawmaker. “They are either here (PR) or there (Barisan Nasional),” he told The Malaysian Insider.

The Parit Buntar MP cited the example of the Perak when three PR assemblymen — two from PKR and one from DAP — left their parties to become Independents friendly to BN.

“This is just a political game. They announce that they are leaving now but they will later say they are friendly to Barisan,” he said.

Even if the deserters remained as Independents, said Mujahid, he predicted that the bloc would be used as a back-up for the BN government to win votes in Parliament.

Former PKR secretary-general Datuk Salehuddin Hashim, who has also quit his party, predicted today an exodus of PKR lawmakers. This would result in a whole new faction in Parliament — an Independent bloc — which Salehuddin did not discount happening.

DAP’s Lim Kit Siang said the defections showed that “painful and agonising though it may be”, PR needed to undergo a “self-cleansing process”.

Lim told The Malaysian Insider that if PR wanted to regain voter confidence, they needed to clean up house. “It may be painful and agonising but we have to go through it,” he said.

Lim did not want to speak on the viability of having an Independent faction in Parliament and merely said: “Let them play up the theatre first and we will see what happens. All I want to say for now is that Pakatan needs to undergo some self-cleansing.”

PKR national vice-president Dr Lee Boon Chye said the PKR defectors would find themselves to be fairly restricted in their quest to become truly independent MPs in Parliament.

“Already in the current situation, even as a strong opposition with a third of the seats, we find it difficult to balance the dominance of the Barisan so what more when you are an Independent,” he said.

Political scientist Wong Chin Huat agreed with this and echoed Mujahid’s views that Malaysian politics did not have room for a “third force”. He noted that the independent MPs would not be truly free from influences from either PR or BN. “After all, how many lawmakers do you know are truly aware of their duties? Defecting from their respective parties do not make them better Parliamentarians,” he told The Malaysian Insider.

He also pointed out that defectors would have little influence in winning over votes for BN. “The voters have already made up their minds so they do not want a third force. At the end of the day, these ‘independent MPs” would have to choose which side they want to be friendly with. “If in the next elections they want to stand in a three-tiered fight, they would lose,” he said. “The real damage is if the people think that these defections mean that the PKR is split and that Pakatan is weakening,” he said.

In announcing his departure from PKR today, Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng said that he would remain as an independent candidate and would not be “friendly” to either coalitions. “If I am ‘friendly’ then I am not independent, am I?” he told a press conference this afternoon.

Tan’s departure is the latest departure of PKR’s federal lawmakers, following Bayan Baru MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Hashim’s recent decision to also leave PKR.

Former PKR deputy president Dr Chandra Muzaffar said he believes that the existence of more independent lawmakers was a healthy scenario but admitted that the group would have little legislative influence. “If you look at the Malaysian Parliament, the ruling coalition has a comfortable majority to a point that they do not really need these independent legislators to pass bills. Unless of course, they have problems with the attendance of their own MPs,” he told The Malaysian Insider tonight.

He noted that he had little confidence that the group of independent MPs would represent a unified voice in the Parliament as they all came from different ethnic backgrounds.

“Tan and (Pasir Mas MP) Ibrahim Ali will not team up, for example. However, if they could stand united on certain issues especially on ethnic issues, then they can play the role of a multi-ethnic bloc. They can become bridge-builders and this would be very good,” said Dr Chandra.

At this point however, he said that it was difficult to imagine such a thing happening and noted that truly independent lawmakers were hard to come by, especially if they chose not to vote with their conscience in Parliament and instead began, again, to take sides with either party.

BN currently controls 137 seats in Parliament while PKR has 29, DAP have 28 seats and PAS 23 seats. Five others are independents. BN needs 11 seats to retain its two-thirds majority.