Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email The Jelapang residents (most likely DAP supporters) are upping the tempo. From 200 people earlier, it has increased to 720 within hours in terms of signatures. There’s signature campaign going on, and I think if the organisers go to the ground, they’ll get thousands of signatures. She won with majority of 6.7k, so if there’s 20k over signatures submitted to her and the Sultan, this will look bad on both of them. How can the Sultan consider the words of a person not accepted by her own constituency? Unless its for the “greater good” and the wishes of a constituency is to be sacrificed for that purpose.
Hundreds of people have turned up at the Jelapang market here Sunday to sign a petition demanding their assemblyman Hee Yit Foong quit her seat.
Within 90 minutes of the campaign starting at 9.30am Sunday, about 720 signatures were collected.
Perak DAP organising secretary Thomas Su Keong Siong said the petition would be handed over to the DAP-turned-independent assemblyman after this.
“If she does not want to accept the petition then we will hand it over to her parents at their home in Kanthan, Chemor,” he said.
Earlier when addressing the crowd, Su said the campaign was to force Hee to resign to pave way for a by-election.
“She has said that not everyone was against her, only those with ‘interests.’ If that is so, come back and face the people,” he added.
Sabri Abdul Rahman, 52, said he felt cheated by Hee, whom he had given his trust and vote to.
“We had voted for her and this is how she repays the people,” he said.
“I want her to quit. I want the Pakatan Rakyat state government back,” he added.
Hitting out at Hee, M. Vigneswary, 26, said, “We do not accept Barisan Nasional as the government; our Mentri Besar is Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.”
Also present amongst the crowd were some who claimed to be childhood friends of Hee from her hometown in Kanthan.
One of them, Wong Fook, 56, said they had treated Hee like a sister and even sacrificed their own time and money to campaign for her during the 2004 general election.
“She has no loyalty. She has betrayed everyone by bringing down a whole government … and a good one for that matter,” he said.
Hee, previously from DAP, announced she was quitting the party earlier this week. She said she would remain an independent assemblyman, but pledged her loyalty to Barisan.
The weak link is Hee. If she resigns, big problem for BN. The other two fellows will not resign and their corruption case charges will take a long time. A by-election must be called if Hee resigns and if BN losses, it wil reflect that the Sultan has erred or probably been deceived.
However, there’s rumours that Hee may be offered an EXCO position or asked to maintain the deputy speaker post. If UMNO doesn’t allow it, then it will serve to reinforce that they don’t respect nor acknowledge the non-Malays. This will give more pressure to Hee – abhored by own voters and neglected by new state government.
She may join MCA, but according to MCA they won’t “force” her to do so.
