{"id":1496,"date":"2008-03-07T16:58:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T08:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/07\/pm-cautions-indian-and-chinese-voters\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T08:58:28","slug":"pm-cautions-indian-and-chinese-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/07\/pm-cautions-indian-and-chinese-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"PM cautions indian and chinese voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I’m not mistaken, the ruling party can nominate anyone to be a senator for example, give the person a ministerial position and put the in the cabinet. Our ex education minister was one such case. Our second finance minister’s also one. Thus, if MCA, Gerakan, MIC all lose, then those ministerial positions can be given to appointed representatives, unless UMNO want to use this as an excuse to grab all the posts.
\nELECTION 2008: Be cautious, PM tells Chinese, Indian voters
\nBy : Sharanjit Singh and Marina Emmanuel
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GEORGE TOWN: If people vote out the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) tomorrow, then their communities will no longer have a voice or representation in government, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi cautioned yesterday.
\nThe Chinese and Indian voters have to decide whether they want a louder voice in parliament, by voting in the DAP, or a bigger role in government by voting in the MCA and MIC, he said. “It is your choice,” he said to voters, “but I hope the people think carefully”.<\/p>\n

“I hope the time does not come when we don’t have the MCA or MIC (in government) any more.”<\/p>\n

Abdullah was asked to comment on a possible scenario should there be a repeat of the 1990 general election when Chinese votes swung heavily to the DAP, reducing the number of MCA representatives in government.\u00a0 Abdullah said it would not be in the country’s interest if the new cabinet was short of representation from other BN component parties owing to their poor electoral performance. “I do not want to form a government that is made up of only one race. I want representation from the Malays, Chinese and Indians and other ethnic groups. “I hope the status quo is maintained in the interests of all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I’m not mistaken, the ruling party can nominate anyone to be a senator for example, give the person a ministerial position and put the in the cabinet. Our ex education minister was one such case. Our second finance minister’s also one. Thus, if MCA, Gerakan, MIC all lose, then those ministerial positions can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,225],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-election-2008","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}