{"id":7039,"date":"2010-11-13T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2010-11-13T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T15:31:12","slug":"400000-members-in-pkr-but-how-many-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/11\/13\/400000-members-in-pkr-but-how-many-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"400,000 members in PKR but how many vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think the plan to have direct elections is backfiring on PKR. So far, about 11,000 members have voted it seems, with more than 1\/3 of the 218 branches having held the elections. Just two weeks more left. There&#8217;s more than <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/400000-members-to-vote-in-pkr-election\/\" target=\"_blank\">400,000 members<\/a><\/strong> in PKR but not many voting?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the voter turnout is low (some put it as low s 20%), can it be considered as valid?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One contender pulled out (Zaid) and condemning the other contender and the de-facto leader. Some members resigning, so many complaints being lodged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If things continue like this, PKR most likely will fold up by next GE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If PKR close shop or become weak, then PR will fall apart as DAP and PAS stand on opposite poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the plan to have direct elections is backfiring on PKR. So far, about 11,000 members have voted it seems, with more than 1\/3 of the 218 branches having held the elections. Just two weeks more left. There&#8217;s more than 400,000 members in PKR but not many voting? If the voter turnout is low [&hellip;]<\/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":[196,62],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-elections","tag-pkr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","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=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}