DAP's share of the non-Chiense support in the 2011 Sarawak State Election

The 2011 Sarawak State election was a historic election in that it was the first time in more than 20 years in which the opposition managed to achieve a double digit representation in the state assembly by winning 15 out of 71 seats (or 21% of total seats), not including the one independent who won the seat of Pelagus.

The DAP emerged as the biggest winner by winning 12 out of the 15 seats which it contested in.
While the DAP could not have achieved this win without the overwhelming support of the urban voters, it would be a mistake to say that DAP’s support was only present among the Chinese voters. In many of the seats in which DAP contested in which had a significant percentage of non-Chinese voters, the DAP managed to win at least 30% of the vote among the non-Chinese voters. In some of these seats, the DAP far exceeded the 30% mark among the non-Chinese voters.

Is Najib becoming another Pak Lah - a Prime Minister whose writ does not run in UMNO?

The question many are asking is whether the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is becoming another Pak Lah, the fifth Prime Minister whose writ did not run in Umno although he was also Umno President ending in his ignominious exit as Umno chief and prime minister.

This question has become more pronounced after Najib’s meek and completely unacceptable stance over Utusan Malaysia’s “1Melayu, 1Bumi” call.

Najib’s tame excuse is that the “1Melayu, 1Bumi” call was made by a columnist of a local daily and was the personal opinion of the writer concerned.

MCA leaders' failure to condemn Utusan Malaysia's racist

It's been two days since the recalcitrant UMNO-owned Utusan Malaysia fanned the flames of racial disunity by calling for a 1Melayu, 1Bumi movement to battle the so-called Chinese challenge to Malay dominance in Malaysia, and yet, MCA leaders are still conspicuously silent on the matter.

The only reported statement by MCA on the matter is a quote of MCA Vice-President Liow Tiong Lai saying, "Utusan cannot generalise the whole thing. It has nothing to do with race. It has more to do with the urban needs and the rural needs." (Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/mca-sarawak-chinese-voted-on-urban-rural-lines-not-race/ )

Orang Cina lebih percaya kepada PAS dari Umno

KUALA TERENGGANU - Kecenderungan bukan Melayu terutamanya kaum Cina mengundi untuk pembangkang adalah terbentuk kerana perjuangan Umno yang bersifat perkauman atau 'rasis'.

Oleh itu, menurut Pengerusi Penaja Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS negeri Terengganu Dr. B. Chandran, kaum bukan Melayu telah hilang kepercayaan kepada Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN).

"Trend orang-orang bukan Melayu, Cina dan India, terutamanya kaum Cina mengundi pembangkang bukan salah pembangkang, tapi salah Umno dan BN sendiri,

"perjuangan Umno dan parti-parti komponen, MCA dan MIC, adalah perjuangan berasaskan kaum (perkauman) yang rasis,"katanya ketika diminta mengulas kenyataan Ketua Penerangan Umno Kuala Nerus, Muhamad Ramli Nuh.

DAP Sarawak: Tun M ‘tidak sedar apa beliau kata’

KUCHING, 19 April — DAP Sarawak hari ini menolak dakwaan Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad bahawa parti itu telah menyuntik “virus perkauman” di negeri itu, yang mana menurut bekas perdana menteri itu pendekatan sedemikian akan memecahkan negara kepada dua puak.

“Ia (pandangan) sampah (semata-mata). Ini menunjukkan Dr M (Mahathir) sudah nyanyuk dan tidak sedar apa yang beliau kata. Semasa semua ceramah ketika berkempen, kami hanya bertanya soal kesamarataan kaum dan ia ada dalam manifesto kami,” kata Pengerusi DAP Sarawak Wong Ho Leng.
Rakannya, Violet Yong, turut memberikan pandangan yang serupa.

Mingguan rasis gesa hukum pengundi Cina Sarawak

Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Encik Lim Guan Eng, semalam mendakwa gesaan sebuah akhbar Kumpulan Utusan agar Barisan Nasional (BN) menghukum pengundi Cina yang tidak menyokong perikatan itu pada pilihan raya negeri Sarawak Sabtu lalu sebagai rasis dan tidak demokratik.
Setiausaha Agung Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP) itu juga mengecam Umno, pemilik akhbar berkenaan, kerana membolehkan pendirian sedemikian dikeluarkan, serta mempersoalkan sama ada ia konsisten dengan slogan '1Malaysia' Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, selaku Perdana Menteri dan Pengerusi BN.

Victory Speech by Wong Ho Leng

Fellow Sarawakians. Today is a milestone in our long struggle for change. Pakatan Rakyat has successfully won 15 seats, nearly doubling our representation in the State Assembly. This result is a clear and bold message to the BN Government. The people have declared in no uncertain terms that we want change.

Judging from the results state-wide and the spectacular defeat of SUPP President and Deputy Chief Minister George Chan, it is now clearly untenable for Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud to remain in power. The people of Sarawak have effectively delivered a vote of no confidence to the leadership of the Chief Minister.
If he chooses to cling on to power, he will be openly defying the wishes of the people.

Today, Sarawakians have come out in a show of force to vote against corruption, cronyism and abuse of power. Today, Sarawakians have rejected elitist politics and irresponsible governance. Today, Sarawakians have stood up and demanded a government that is competent, accountable and transparent.

No longer will the people accept lip service and false promises. No longer will the people accept leaders that enrich themselves at the expense of the people.

The results today are a strong indication of the desire for immediate change. The needs of the people must be looked after. Sarawakians now expect the government to deliver comprehensive reform programmes that will directly benefit the people.

Sarawakians now demand:

• Greater and fairer distribution of its natural resources. We want oil royalty to be increased from 5% to 20%.
  
• Land issues to be resolved immediately. We want transparency in land alienation and a swift solution to Native Customary Rights issues.
  
• Equal opportunities in employment and business. We want an open tender system to replace the monopolistic practice currently in place.
  
• Fundamental infrastructural needs have to be addressed. We want proper roads, clean water, electricity and greater internet penetration, especially in the rural areas.
  
• We also want educational opportunities to be available to every Sarawakian child across the state.
  

The will of the people will only be ignored at the Government¡¯s peril. If they do not heed the call for change, their time will soon be up.

The people have spoken, and the message is clear. Change, or be changed.

Wong Ho Leng , DAP Sarawak State Chairman & SA for Assek

Will Mahathir be proven right that Taib could be another Wan Mokhtar?

Can former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad be proven right when he cryptically advised Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud to “learn from history” in deciding when to step down, citing the case of “one MB who insisted he should continue, and lost the whole state”?

Mahathir was of course referring to the case of Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar Ahmad who was Mentri Besar of Terengganu for 25 years from 1974 to 1999 and was ignominiously evicted from office when Barisan Nasional suffered an electoral rout of 4 – 28 state assembly seats to PAS in the 1999 general elections.

Wind of Change blowing strong and hard in Sarawak

Media Conference Statement by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Ipoh Timor Lim Kit Siang in Kuching on Wednesday 13th April 2011 at 11.30 am:

Wind of Change blowing strong and hard in Sarawak –Sarawakians should write “416” in golden letters on Saturday as latest addition to the political lexicon of numbers of “520”, “308” and ”516” as powerful symbols in the quest for political change in Malaysia

The wind of change is blowing strong and hard in Sarawak. In Kuching, Sibu, Bintangor, Sarikei, Bintulu and particularly Miri as well as all over the state, there can be no mistaking the deep and powerful yearning of the Sarawakians for political change.

Penduduk Rumah Panjang masuk DAP

Penduduk-penduduk Rumah Panjang Merasam Darat masuk DAP hari ini untuk mengukuhkan DAP di Sarawak.

Wakil rumah panjang tersebut Megong menyerahkan borang untuk masuk DAP.Mereka berharap calon DAP Leong Kwang Yew menang dalam pilihanraya dan menyampaikan isu-isu tempatan seperti tidak ada bekalan air dan elektik ke dalam Mesyuarat Undangan Negeri. Selain itu, pihak kerajaan masih tidak melantik seorang Ketua Masyarakat secara rasmi.

DAP Pahliman Segambut, YB Lim Lip Eng dan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Kerajaan Selangor, YB Jenice Lee Ying Ha menyaksikan penyerahan borang tersebut.

BN’s Plan to build New Sri Aman Hospital, 15 years on and the empty promise and posturing continues!

In a despicable act of pure political opportunism and desperation, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak added to the 15 year long, litany of broken BN promises to the people of Sri Aman, by announcing that a new Sri Aman hospital worth RM200 million will be completed in 2013. All this, the PM did in a mere 30 minute press conference-cum-visit, forgetting that the good people of Sri Aman had to endure incalculable suffering and the needless loss of human lives over the last 15 years of BN neglect.


This is clear proof that BN has not and will not change the politics of corruption and vote-buying through “election goodies”, that the BN /Taib administration has been practicing for the last 40 years.

The PM, alongside Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai and SUPP candidate, Francis Harden, have added further insult to injury, blind to the demands of ordinary Sri Aman folk for fairness and decency, particularly in the case of access to healthcare.

Pengerusi DAP Limbang dan Calon Bukit Kota (N68)Leong Kwang Yew mencabar calon BN Dr. Abdul Rahman supaya melawat ke Medan Bangkita bersama-bersama pada Hari Jumaat (15 Apr) yang akan datang.

Leong Kwang Yew berkata, dia tidak bersetuju dengan kenyataan Abdul Rahman dalam Utusan Borneo semalam. Abdul Rahman mengatakan tuduhan yang dilemparkan parti pembangkang terhadap bangunan Medan Bangkita yang disediakan kerajaan bagi menempatkan para penjaja sebagai projek gajah putih hanya fitnah dan tohmahan untuk meraih undi.

Guan Eng janjikan kaum Dayak dana RM1 bilion

SERI AMAN, 11 April — Lim Guan Eng mencabar politik pembangunan Barisan Nasional (BN) semalam dengan menjanjikan masyarakat Dayak akan disediakan dana tetap RM1 bilion jika Pakatan Rakyat mengambil alih pentadbiran kerajaan negeri pada pilihan raya negeri kali ini.

Pengundian diadakan Sabtu ini.

Setiausaha Agung DAP itu berkata peruntukan itu tambahan kepada dana pembasmian kemiskinan RM1 bilion, yang turut disasarkan kepada Dayak, yang masih miskin meskipun merupakan majoriti di negeri itu.
“Penindasan dan tekanan ke atas masyarakat Dayak mesti berakhir. Selama ini, kerajaan telah mengambil kesempatan dengan merampas hak mereka dan mengabaikan mereka,” kata beliau.

It’s the people versus Barisan Nasional

Today marks the fifth day of the Sarawak election campaign, with another five more days to go before polling takes place on 16th April 2011. Over the past four days of campaigning, the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat were received with enthusiasm and unprecedented crowds. From Sibu to Sarikei, the tremendous groundswell of support has demonstrated the most encouraging indications as yet.

But now, this state election campaign has entered an entirely different phase with Prime Minister Najib Razak taking over the reins from Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud. With Najib joining the fray, this now morphs into an election of national proportions – with the entire Federal Cabinet and government machinery at Barisan Nasional’s disposal.

Miri leads in forefront for political change in Sarawak’s 10th general elections

For first time in 48-year history, Miri leads in forefront for political change in Sarawak’s 10th general elections
In the past 48 years, it was either Kuching or Sibu which led the state in political change.

This is now different. For the first time in Sarawak’s 48-year history, Miri is leading in the forefront for political change in Sarawak’s 10th general elections as evident in the DAP ceramahs in the past four nights – with unprecedented increasing crowds, public support as well as public donations every night.

Miri is now the cynosure of Sarawak and Malaysia – in the very frontline for political change in Sarawak and Malaysia and all eyes are on Miri on polling day on April 16.

Tamatkan hegemoni Taib Mahmud, mula dari Limbang!

Pada pilihanraya DUN Sarawak ke-10 , DAP telah bertanding di 15 kerusi di Sarawak. Antara 15 kerusi yang ditandingi oleh DAP, kita juga bertanding dalam N68 Bukit Kota.

Kerusi ini merupakan satu-satunya kerusi yang mana DAP bertembung Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu(PBB) yang dipimpin oleh Ketua Menteri Sarawak Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmub.

Sepanjang 48 tahun yang lalu, BN Sarawak telah menggunakan kedudukan politik untuk membina kekayaan dan menggunakan wang tersebut untuk memperkukuhkan kedudukan politik, lingkaran ganas sedemikian berterusan, kroni-kroni ahli politik BN telahpun mengeksploitasikan dan memonopoli sumber-sumber kaya yang boleh digunakan untuk pembangunan melalui urus niaga sulit “bawah meja” dan akhirnya merampas hak-hak penduduk Sarawak di sisi undang-undang.

Rakyat Limbang mahu doktor pakar, bukannya van jenazah!

Pengerusi DAP Limbang dan calon Bukit Kota Leong Kwang Yew telah mengadakan lawatan ke Hospital Limbang pagi tadi. Dia mengutuk Kerajaan Barisan Nasional yang tidak menjaga kebajikan dan kepentingan rakyat Limbang. Hospital Limbang tidak pernah dinaiktaraf untuk rakyat Limbang. Yang ada cuma van jenazah untuk menghantar mayat dari Hospital Miri ke Limbang!

Pagi ini, Leong Kwang Yew yang diiringi oleh ahli DUN Perak Thomas Su dan ahli DUN Selangor Jenice Lee telah melawat Hospital Limbang. Malah mereka turut menghadiahkan buah-buahan dan cenderahati yang disumbangkan daripada rakyat Limbang kepada pesaki-pesakit. Mereka juga turut melancarkan risalah kempen pilihanraya DUN Sarawak “Jauhnya Hospital.”

Menurut Leong Kwang Yew berkata, dia difahamkan salah seorang ibu yang sepatutnya dihantar ke Hospital Miri terpaksa menjalani pembedahan di Hospital Limbang dalam keadaan kritikal. Mujur kedua-dua ibu dan bayi berada dalam keadaan sihat.

“Sampai bilakah rakyat Limbang perlu menderita kesakitan dan kesengsaraan begini? Jika saya dilantik sebagai Ahli DUN Sarawak, saya pasti akan memperjuangkan satu hospital yang dilengkapi dengan kemudahan dan doktor pakar untuk rakyat sini. ”

Hospital Limbang tiada kemudahan yang lengkap dan doktor pakar. Dari segi struktur geografi, rakyat Bukit Kota yang diapit oleh Brunei tiada alternatif lain untuk melaluinya melainkan masuk dan keluar Miri melalui sempadan negara Brunei dan terpaksa menanggung kos- kos lain.

Cabar Wong Soon Koh Tunjukkan Bukti!

DAP mencabar Wong Soon Koh untuk menunjukkan bukti bertulis bahawa Kerajaan Persekutuan secara prinsipnya berjanji untuk mengambil alih Jambatan Rejang (dulunya dikenali Jambatan Lanang) dan seterusnya memansuhkan tol jambatan tersebut.

Wong Soon Koh hanya mengulangi kenyataan tersebut melalui video rakaman yang dimuatnaik ke atasyoutube.com. Jikalau ini bukan sesuatu janji yang palsu, mengapa Wong Soon Koh tidak berani untuk berhadapan dengan media atau rakyat jelata serta menunjukkan bukti-bukti yang berkaitan?

Sehingga hari ini, kami belum terdengar apa-apa pengumuman yang dibuat oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Kerajaan Persekutuan. Lagipun, jambatan tersebut bukan merupakan sebahagian daripada jalan persekutuan, kenapa Kerajaan Persekutuan perlu mengambil alih jambatan tersebut?

Pakatan Rakyat Pulau Pinang untuk semua, Wifi juga untuk Semua

"Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Pulau Pinang untuk semua, Wifi untuk semua" dalam usaha menjadikan Pulau Pinang sebagai negeri wifi pertama di Malaysia yang berani dan inovatif dalam inisiatif memperluaskan kepintaran digital untuk seluruh rakyat Pulau Pinang.

Sebagai negeri yang pertama di Malaysia menyediakan wifi percuma di tempat tumpuan umum, beberapa keperluan dan penjelasan diperlukan dalam usaha untuk melaksanakan konsep baru ini.

DAP To Announce Its List Of Candidates Over The Weekend

SIBU, March 31 (Bernama) -- The DAP will announce its list of 15 candidates for the Sarawak election over the weekend.

State chairman Wong Ho said today that party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng would announce the five candidates for the southern zone at the DAP headquarters in Kuching on Saturday.

The candidates for the central and northern regions would be announced here the following day.