Some thoughts on the Padang Serai By-Election

Padang Serai By-Election

By 2240 hrs PN had steamrolled through the by-election in the Padang Serai constituency, until then a PKR stronghold. PN obtained 56.5% of the votes cast for that seat, giving it a significant 16,200 vote majority.

10.40pm: With all 233 ballot boxes counted, PN wins Padang Serai with a 16,260 vote majority, and 56.5 percent of the popular vote.

Harapan won just 38.7% of the votes, dropping considerably from its achievement in 2018 of 45.3%, though mind you, it then had Mahathir's Bersatu support. Obviously those erstwhile and large number of voters has swung over to PAS. PAS in 2018 received only 32.7% of the ballots.

Even though BN had withdrew from the race in support of the new alliance of BN-PH it still received 2,983 votes in the polling, wakakaka, not that those nearly 3,000 would have helped Harapan. But it does tell us that not all voters are clued on the election.

Meanwhile, kutu-parties like Pejuang, Warisan and the independent candidate lost their deposits.

With its victory in Padang Serai, PN now has 74 seats in Parliament. Though still way behind Harapan's number of seats (without yet combining with BN) I wonder whether, and really I am convinced yes, this will set off another session of mealy-mouthed merajuk-ing from Moox2 that he ought to be PM, wakakaka!

But as a consolation to disappointed BN-Harapan supporters, over in Tioman, BN won the seat with 48.9% [while Harapan had 4.7% despite already withdrawn from the race]. PN was not far behind, obtaining 45.5% of votes in that Pahang state seat.





Poor Mohd Sofee Razak (Harapan-PKR) acknowledged defeat in Padang Serai, saying he respected the verdict of the voters but nonetheless, said it was not a “level fight” as his opponent from PN had resorted to the notorious tactic of using race and religion to “scare Malay voters in the rural areas”.

He said: “PN leaders used racial and religious issues to poison the minds of Undi18 voters as they are innocent and believed the lies of PN leaders that there is a threat to the Malays and Islam in the country.

“It is not true but PN leaders capitalised on these issues to win the election. They used these issues as their ‘bullets’ to win the election”.

Harapan candidate for Padang Serai Mohamad Sofee Razak


MKINI reported Sofee warning that this “poison” sown by PN in the minds of the youths will be passed down to the next generation.

He said: “It is very dangerous for the future generation and of our nation."

“I hope and believe that the unity government under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will rectify this cancerous problem in the next five years to take the nation and our youths in the right direction”.

We are also aware of Moo-x2's dirty slander in accusing Anwar of gaining RM15 million from DSAI's earlier role as economic advisor to Selangor when in reality all DSAI received had been a symbolic 1 ringgit. Well, Moox2 is now facing a legal slander threat from Anwar unless he fulfils certain acts of contrition, wakakaka.

But undeniably, Kedah has become a diehard PAS county, as in the North-Eastern Coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu. The green wave is certainly spreading, where PAS has even penetrated into Penang, winning 3 parliamentary seats in the last general election. One of that 3 seats was Permatang Pauh, thought to "belong" to Anwar's family but apparently not. Poor sweetie Nurul Izzah unbelievably lost.

Over at Facebook, my matey Wilson Toh opined to me:



This is extremely serious. The only strategy to prevent the green tsunami from gaining 67% of the seats in parliament is to help ensure that the UNITY GOVERNMENT, no matter the warts and pimples, survives for at least 2 years, and preferably the whole term until GE-16. 

Because.

Because there is no other option today. Otherwise, the green tsunami will drown democracy in GE-16. The “kaffirs” will have nowhere to go.

It has happened in Iran, Pakistan, Chechnya and Afghanistan.

Russians and Americans and their own people fought the Taliban for over 40 years. They lost. Where will Malaysia be in 40 years if a unity government backed by the Malay Rulers cannot survive?

Anwar is not the ‘saviour’ but today, he is the only Malay politician able to form the unity government. By extension, he is the only Muslim leader that non-Muslims and non-Malays as well as MALAYS have at this point in time that is acceptable to the majority of voters, the Rulers, the army and the civil service. The alternative is Hadi.

"The alternative is Hadi" - what a terrifying thought!!!