{"id":1507,"date":"2008-03-09T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T10:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/09\/kayveas-saw-it-coming\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T18:58:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T10:58:52","slug":"kayveas-saw-it-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/09\/kayveas-saw-it-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayveas saw it coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mosquito party’s sole representative is also out. Does that signal the end of PPP? Not sure if he will be selected as Senator again and given deputy minister position. The PM also need to consider Gerakan and to a certain extent MCA and MIC.<\/p>\n

Wake-up call for coalition, says Kayveas<\/p>\n

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By IZATUN SHARI<\/p>\n

PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional’s poor performance in this general election should serve as a wake-up call for the ruling coalition, said People’s Progressive Party (PPP) president Datuk M. Kayveas.<\/p>\n

Kayveas, who lost to DAP’s Nga Kor Min in the Taiping parliamentary constituency, said the poor performance did not come as a surprise to him.<\/p>\n

“I had expected that it would be a challenging time for Barisan because the talk on the ground was that the anti-Barisan sentiment was quite high<\/span><\/strong>,” he said when contacted here Sunday.<\/p>\n

“During the election campaigns, there were people who came up to me point blank saying ‘It’s not that I don’t like you but I don’t like the badge you are wearing’<\/span><\/strong>. This is a wake up call for Barisan. There is something people are not happy about. It should do something to remain popular.”<\/p>\n

He proposed that Barisan reinvent itself by uniting all its component parties together to become a single party with a single system.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kayveas said he would continue to build the party and support Barisan to ensure that the ruling coalition was still a better choice.<\/p>\n

PPP back in wilderness with defeats<\/p>\n

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KUALA LUMPUR: Is this the end of the People’s Progressive Party?
\nBoth its candidates, Datuk M. Kayveas and Lee Heng, lost their respective seats. The PPP president lost his Taiping parliamentary seat, which he won in 2004 with a 2,172 majority, while Lee Hong lost the Pasir Bedamar state seat. This is the second straight defeat for Lee Heng. He also lost the same seat in 2004.<\/p>\n

The PPP returned to active politics after being in the wilderness for almost 14 years due to internal bickering and legal issues.
\nPPP was formed in 1953 by the Seenivasagam brothers mainly as an opposition party to the alliance. The party’s first president was D.R. Seenivasagam.<\/p>\n

After its revival under Kayveas’ leadership, the PPP had a membership of 300,000, with a network of more than 3,000 branches.\u00a0 In 2006, 48 per cent of the PPP’s membership was Indian, 32 per cent Chinese, 13 per cent Malay, and the rest are of other ethnic groups.<\/p>\n

At the height of their political success, PPP held 12 state seats and four parliamentary seats. Kayveas has repeatedly asked for these seats to be returned to the party, but with the outcome of this election, that will be impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mosquito party’s sole representative is also out. Does that signal the end of PPP? Not sure if he will be selected as Senator again and given deputy minister position. The PM also need to consider Gerakan and to a certain extent MCA and MIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130,225],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-election-2008","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}