{"id":1544,"date":"2008-02-05T22:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T14:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:47:01","slug":"1539-of-expected-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"[1539] Of expected seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was scanning the news just now and became interested in expected result of the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>DAP expects to grab anywhere from 30 to 40 parliamentary seats. DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang further said that PAS and PKR should be able to bring in from another 40 to 50 seats.<a href=\"#1539note1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><a title=\"1539noteback1\" name=\"1539noteback1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abdul Hadi Awang later said that PAS is targeting to win at least 40 seats.<a href=\"#1539note2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a><a title=\"1539noteback2\" name=\"1539noteback2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does that mean that PKR is targeting to win merely 10 seats?  That is kind of a low expectation, do you not think so? If PKR is targeting only 10 seats, I would certainly feel greatly disappointed with PKR.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this kind of synthesized expectation might not be accurate but in absence of announced target from PKR, this is likely the closest expectation based on real information, assuming of course that Mr. Lim and Mr. Abdul Hadi are not feeding false information to the press.<\/p>\n<p>The most disappointing thing is that DAP, PAS and PKR expect to gain a total of 90 seats at most. Do correct me if I am wrong but I think that the curent opposition has no ambition to become a government at all.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps, they are just being realistic. We all love realists, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><sup>[1]<\/sup> <a title=\"1539note1\" name=\"1539note1\"><\/a> \u2014 KUALA LUMPUR: DAP should focus on winning 30 to 40 parliamentary seats, and Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Pas another 40 to 50, said opposition leader Lim Kit Siang yesterday. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Saturday\/National\/2148084\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">DAP aiming for 85pc success rate<\/a><\/em>. New Straits Times. February 2 2008]<\/small><sup>[<a href=\"#1539noteback1\">\u00e2\u2020\u00a9<\/a>]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><small><sup>[2]<\/sup> <a title=\"1539note2\" name=\"1539note2\"><\/a> \u2014 MUAR: PAS has set a target to win at least 40 parliamentary seats and try to have representatives in every state in the coming general election, its president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/2\/5\/nation\/20230505&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">PAS sets winning target<\/a><\/em>. The Star. February 5 2008]<\/small><sup>[<a href=\"#1539noteback2\">\u00e2\u2020\u00a9<\/a>]<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scanning the news just now and became interested in expected result of the upcoming election. DAP expects to grab anywhere from 30 to 40 parliamentary seats. DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang further said that PAS and PKR should be able to bring in from another 40 to 50 seats.[1] Abdul Hadi Awang later [&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":[186,140],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-elections","tag-pakatan-rakyat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","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=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}