{"id":1529,"date":"2008-01-24T21:18:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2009-03-13T17:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T09:25:48","slug":"1524-of-how-about-local-politics-sir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"[1524] Of how about local politics, sir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in New Straits Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUANTAN: Opposition politician Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he would contest a by-election if he was not allowed to be a candidate in the upcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser said he would ask one of the party&#8217;s elected representatives to vacate his or her seat to enable a by-election to be held after April.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On whether having a by-election would be unfair to PKR elected representatives, Anwar said PKR members were more than willing to surrender their seats for him.<\/p>\n<p>He also said voters should not have problems supporting him as he was the adviser to the party that they had voted for. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/National\/2140090\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Anwar sets sights on by-election<\/em><\/a>. New Straits Times. January 24 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it is quite presumptive of Anwar Ibrahim to say &#8220;<em>voters should not have problems supporting him<\/em> <em>as he&#8221;<\/em> is <em>&#8220;the adviser to the party that they had voted for<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anwaribrahimblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sir<\/a>, how relevant are local issues to your electability in such by-election?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in New Straits Times: KUANTAN: Opposition politician Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he would contest a by-election if he was not allowed to be a candidate in the upcoming general election. The Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser said he would ask one of the party&#8217;s elected representatives to vacate his or her seat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[203,323],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-anwar-ibrahim","tag-malaysian-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}