Tuesday, November 9, 2010

GALAS, DALAM KENANGAN - GALAS, A MEMOIR

Since the race had already ended, now its time to share the experience.

"My 6 days and 5 nights was worth it ! Alhamdulillah syukur to Allah Al-Aziz for granting the long-waited success in Kelantan. As predicted, Galas N.45 was a tougher deal as compared to Batu Sapi, Sabah. Thank you for giving me the trust to command the psy-war programme under 'Ghazwatul-Fikri' efforts. This experience also allowed me to listen to my son's 1st cry expressing how much he had missed me" - www.ferizomar.blogspot.com.

The following are some interesting 'green' flyers that I found being circulated in Galas, Gua Musang, Kelantan during the cross-fires between the two (2) political fronts. I was told that the flyers are simply 'green' to capture the opposition supporters' attention. It is indeed an eye-opener to some of us !

REPORT FROM BERNAMA

08:30pm: Official result: Barisan Nasional regains Galas. Ab Aziz Yusoff (BN) 5,324 votes, Dr Zulkefli Mohamad (PAS) 4,134; Majority: 1,190

07:23pm: Unofficial results BN leads by slim majority midway in the tallying process

06:45pm: Final voter turnout 9,555 voters or 82.71%.

04:20pm: EC: Voter turnout as at 4pm is 7,561 or 66.23%.

01:30pm: Voter turnout is 55.75% or 6,441 voters, EC announces.

10:15am: Voter turnout as at 10am is 24.02% or 2,775 voters. The figure does not include turnout in six orang asli polling stations.

The Election Commission (EC) has set Nov 4 as polling day for the Galas state assembly seat, if there is a contest, while nomination day is Oct 26, its deputy chairman, Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar announced.

He said the election would use the Master Electoral Roll (DPI) 2009 which was merged with the First Quarter and Second Quarter Supplementary Electoral Roll 2010, which had been updated up to Sept 27.

He said the EC had also set Wednesday as the day of issuing the writ and Thursday for the notice of election.

“The EC had received the official notification from the Kelantan state assembly speaker on Sept 28 regarding the vacancy in the State Assembly seat N45 for Galas, Kelantan following the death of the incumbent Assemblyman Chek Hashim Sulaima on Sept 27.

“Subsequently, the EC had a special meeting on the matter and decided that a by-election would be held within 60 days of the date of vacancy to fill up the vacant seat,” he said at a media conference at the EC headquarters, here.

Chek Hashim, 46, from PAS, died of cancer.

In the 2008 general election, Chek Hashim wrested the Galas state seat located in the Gua Musang parliamentary constituency from the Barisan Nasional with a majority of 646 votes.

Wan Ahmad said Galas had 11,553 registered voters comprising 11,426 ordinary voters and 127 postal voters.

He said of the total, 7,125 voters were Malays, while 2,317 voters were Chinese, Indians (185), Sarawak Bumiputera (10), Orang Asli (1,889) and others (27).

1 comment:

Orbee said...

Askm sdr Feriz,

Saya memang dah jangka kemenangan akan berpihak kepada BN kerana rakyat sedar politik pembangkang tak akan membela Melayu & Islam. Tapi saya masih percaya yg tetap menjadi masalah ialah sikap dan akhlak pemimpin2 yang telah diamanahkan itu. Selagi mereka tidak dapat menilai hukum halal-haram dan adanya syurga-neraka, selagi itulah perkara yg sama akan terus berlaku. Ini juga bolih disebabkan kejahilan ilmu Quran & hadith dikalangan rakyat. jadi mereka mudah taksub kepada "pemimpin" mereka.

Sekian semuga Allah SWT menberi kita perlindungan dan terus memberi nekmat2 Allah yg tak ternilai.