105 kerusi 'di tangan'

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) yakin akan memperoleh sekurang-kurangnya 105 kerusi Parlimen dengan selesa, dan boleh menambah tujuh lagi kerusi untuk majoriti mudah bagi membentuk kerajaan peringkat persekutuan pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 (PRu13).

Pengarah Strategi PKR, Mohd Rafizi Ramli berkata, pihaknya meletakkan keyakinan itu berdasarkan perkembangan demografi dan sokongan pengundi termasuk di Johor, Sabah dan Sarawak.

"Ini bukan lagi harapan, tetapi keyakinan. Kami yakin boleh memperoleh 105 kerusi selepas menolak beberapa kerusi, kemungkinan tiga hingga empat kerusi yang kami miliki sekarang boleh kalah, tetapi kami akan menang di tempat-tempat lain.

"Pada pilihan raya umum 2008, kami (PR) menang 82 kerusi. Status quo jumlah kerusi 2008 akan kekal, selepas tolak dan tambah kerusi yang akan dimenangi dan kemungkinan kalah, kami yakin akan memperoleh kerusi tambahan di Johor, Sabah dan Sarawak," kata beliau ketika dihubungi Sinar Harian.

Secara purata, katanya, Rafizi berkata, PR boleh memperoleh 24 kerusi, masing-masing lapan dari Johor, Sabah dan Sarawak.

"Di Johor, daripada 26 kerusi Parlimen, sebanyak 18 kerusi berada dalam bahaya, kesemua kerusi-kerusi yang mempunyai pengundi campuran," kata beliau.

"Kalau tengok keadaan 'mood', saya yakin kami boleh mendapat lapan kerusi di Johor.

"Begitu juga di Sarawak, dengan mengambil kira perkembangan politik dan prestasi pilihan raya negeri tahun lalu, kami boleh memperoleh tambahan lapan kerusi Parlimen dan begitu juga di Sabah," katanya lagi.

Rafizi melahirkan keyakinan itu khususnya di kawasan-kawasan majoriti bukan Muslim di Sabah dan Sarawak.

Pada PRU12, PR yang terdiri daripada DAP, PKR dan Pas, pembangkang menang satu kerusi Parlimen dan 25 oleh BN.

Di Sabah dan Sarawak, yang masing-masing menawarkan 25 dan 31 kerusi, BN memperoleh 54 kerusi.

"Kira-kira 100 daripada 140 kerusi dimenangi BN empat tahun lalu datang dari tiga negeri ini," katanya.

‘PR the winner in PTPTN freeze episode’

The Pakatan Rakyat-led Selangor state government was the winner following the short-lived freeze of study loans imposed by the Federal government on students of Universiti Selangor (Unisel) and Selangor International Islamic University College (KUIS), said PAS’s Research Centre director Dzulkefly Ahmad.

Rubbishing the claim by Higher Education minister Khaled Nordin that the episode proved BN had been right in insisting that the controversial loan scheme under the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) should remain, Dzulkefly said it was BN that had “fizzled out in the play” which was supposedly to ‘test’ PR’s policy to offer free tertiary education at federal level if the coalition wins the coming polls.

“But, before the time fizzled out, BN withdrew its decision (to freeze). They know we are capable, that was why they had to pull the brakes. I believe if BN had continued the freeze, we (PR Selangor) will be able to help those students and give maximum impact to PR,” he added.

The decision to freeze the study loans was quickly called off one day after Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim announced that the state would dispose Unisel’s assets and use part of the RM30 million it could raise to help students who had been denied financial help by the Federal government.

The minister, Khaled, however, quickly claimed victory in the fiasco by citing an ‘appeal’ by Unisel to prove that PTPTN was necessary.

“(Unisel) appealed to me and stated PTPTN was in fact necessary, so there is no reason not to agree how important PTPTN is.

“PTPTN’s press statement said the temporary postponement is to study the matter, not for a permanent freeze. (The) opposition acknowledge the importance of PTPTN, free education is just a mere promise,” he wrote on his Twitter account.

But Dzulkefly pointed out that it was obvious that BN was now on a ‘panic mode’ due to people’s confidence in PR’s policies, especially when they hit right on target group, the youth.

“It had distinguished us from BN at the time the people were moving to new politics, they (BN) are still stuck in the old politics of vengeance. When we offered free education, we offered it together with the revamping of budget as a whole. We strategize the budget inline with the development of human resources,” stressed the Kuala Selangor member of parliament.

The abrupt end to the freeze appeared to be yet another policy about-turn by the BN this year, following its decision not to pursue civil servants’ new salary scheme (SBPA).

Masaalah BN

Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin menegaskan bahawa parti-parti komponen BN berhadapan dengan cabaran menguruskan persepsi dalam menghadapi pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Menurutnya, cabaran itu timbul kerana kononya Pakatan Rakyat memutarbelitkan isu dan menyebarkannya kepada rakyat.

"Hal-hal yang tidak betul tetapi diulang berkali-kali dan disebarkan melalui media sosial.

Ha ha yang TV3 putar belit berita dia tak nampak atau buat-buat tak nampak.

"(Justeru) hari ini kita berhadapan dengan masalah persepsi," katanya tanpa memperincikan masalah persepsi berkenaan.

Najib kata, RM50 bilion tolak Rm5 bilion negara jadi bankrap?????

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sekali lagi mengulangi pendiriannya untuk membatalkan pinjaman Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) jika berjawa menawan Putrajaya dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.

DSAI berkata, Pakatan Rakyat mampu berbuat demikian kerana negara mengaut hasil minyak sebanyak RM80 bilion, sedangkan tanggungan kos PTPTN hanya RM5 bilion.

"Tapi Najib kata, RM80 bilion tolak RM5 bilion jadi bankrap," katanya sambil diiringi ketawa hadirin dalam ceramah di di Stadium Kajang malam tadi.

Lebih 5,000 hadirin membanjiri majlis ceramah Merdekakan Rakyat di stadium tersebut.

Turut hadir dalam ceramah tersebut beberapa pemimpin Pakatan antaranya Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, anggota Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Sekinchan Ng Suee Lim dan anggota jawatankuasa pusat PAS Dr Mujahid Yusuf Rawa dan Pengerusi Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) Badrul Hisham Shaharin.

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