{"id":1500,"date":"2008-03-09T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T04:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/03\/09\/election-2008-impact\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T04:49:13","slug":"election-2008-impact-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/03\/09\/election-2008-impact-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2008 Impact Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, three leaders of BN component party loses in peninsular malaysia. Koh Tsu Koon, Kavyeas and Samy Vellu are all out. Gerakan has losts its power. Maybe its time to merge with MCA! For the party who insulted the Indian community, it got what it deserved. Few other cabinet ministers\/deputies also become casualties.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What happens in parliment now?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we can expect Khairy to bring more color into the august house. Together with Bung Mokhtar, Azmi Mohamed and Raja Idris, we can get to see more funny antics.<\/li>\n<li>We can expect less Acts to be bankrolled blatantly.<\/li>\n<li>We can expect more improved attendance from BN representatives since they will need more reps present before approving any new rules.<\/li>\n<li>We can expect the FIRST <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffooi.com\" target=\"_blank\">blogger in the world to be elected into parliment<\/a> to offer better quality debates. Congrats Jeff Ooi.<\/li>\n<li>We can expect stronger voice for the Indian community with 14 reps in the Parliment. Even if 3 are under the BN whip, there will be two sikhs, a professor, many lawyers, an activist or two on the opposition side.<\/li>\n<li>BN still ruling with simple majority. The opposition must make people understand what that means. People will be expecting miracles to happen immediately and satisfaction can creep in if not properly addressed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, three leaders of BN component party loses in peninsular malaysia. Koh Tsu Koon, Kavyeas and Samy Vellu are all out. Gerakan has losts its power. Maybe its time to merge with MCA! For the party who insulted the Indian community, it got what it deserved. Few other cabinet ministers\/deputies also become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","tag-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","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=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}