Seats delineation plan is to further DAP’s agenda, says Zahid

SM Amin SM Amin Updated 6 years ago · Published on 22 Jun 2019 7:52PM · 12 Comments

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says the plans to redraw electoral boundaries in urban areas is a ploy to further DAP's agenda. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Kamal Ariffin, June 22, 2019.

THERE are proposals to redraw electoral boundaries in urban area and help DAP consolidate power at the federal level, said Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The Umno president said by creating more seats in urban areas DAP will not just win more seats but be better poised to push its Malaysian Malaysia agenda.

Zahid said the proposal to redraw boundaries will be done as early as the next parliamentary meeting which starts on July 1.

“He said that parliamentary seats in urban areas with more than 100,000 voters will be targeted in the exercise.

“Who are the elected officials in these areas. Of course DAP. They will add more of their members at the Parliament level,” he said after opening the Umno Kepong division meeting today.

This was Zahid’s first outing at an Umno event since he went on leave from his duties as party president after being slapped with a slew of charges in court.

Last March, the Election Commission said it will study if Parliament can nullify the delineation process made by the previous administration under Najib Razak.

Its chief Azhar Harun said if it can be cancelled, the government can redo it before the 15th General Election.

Zahid went on to say that the process is a threat to the Malay-Muslim community and urban voters as the seat allocation is based on unfair demographic studies.

“Rural seats are usually small. If there is any addition, it is not that big. Therefore this is a threat to the Malays and rural voters.

“They are doing a lot of this and we are seeing their behaviour. Many programmes are done based on the Malaysian Malaysia concept. We know DAP is behind this, finance (ministry) is under them,” he said

From 222 parliamentary seats, 155 are rural seats with Malays and Bumiputeras as the majority. 117 seats are located in the peninsular after the delineation process made before the last general election. – June 22, 2019.

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  • Bodoh Zahid. Kamu tidak faham apa pemilihan yang adil. Kalau Umno atau MCA bagus, letak calon bertanding dan orang akan undi. Jangan cakap bodoh

    Posted 6 years ago by SY L · Reply

  • First of all the size of the population merits more MPs with evenly split sizes of constituencies based only on locality. Secondly, voters should only vote in their residential area. No more voting where your grandfathers are from. A redelineation could benefit the opposition too. Thirdly, deal with the problem of stateless residents in Malaysia. At the moment too many are excluded from society and their rights through no fault of their own.

    Posted 6 years ago by Malaysia New hope · Reply

  • Corrupt Zahid making DAP the bogeyman with his racial hate speeches .The dileanation has to follow the constitution.You cant have Putrajaya with 15,000 voters an Damansara with 150,000 voters.When crook Najib wwas slaughtering the delineation,it was ok with Zahid.

    Posted 6 years ago by Ron Gan · Reply

  • And whats wrong with Malaysian Malaysia if not for unity

    Posted 6 years ago by Kinetica Cho · Reply

  • This comical retard make no noise when UmnoBN did all the devious and ridiculous redelineation. Now you are blowing !!! F%# you . It is smelly fart !!!

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Voice it to EC, why blame it on DAP? Make no sense!

    Posted 6 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Retard

    Posted 6 years ago by Kenneth Tan · Reply

  • His brain has nothing except playing up race and religion issues. What's the outcome of 60 yrs race based policies? Malays are termed lazy by PM, a lot of truth if u ask the local employers. RM3=S1 from 1=1, KoreaGDP=M1/3GDP to KoreaGDP=3xMsiaGDP. House price up 10 times in 30 yrs but starting graduate salary only up 2 times in 30 yrs. U can imagine how hard are today young graduates standard of living nowadays.

    Posted 6 years ago by James Wong · Reply

  • Plainly this is the pot calling the kettle black. In case he cannot remember, that was what UMNO did before the last general elections. Zahid appears unable to think before he opens his mouth and unfortunately for him, this makes him look really stupid.

    Posted 6 years ago by Panchen Low · Reply

  • Let's just say DAP is rectifying the abuses done by BN prior to GE14.

    Posted 6 years ago by Concerned Citizen · Reply

  • Zahid is a dodgy politician. He should jolly well know that the party doing the gerrymandering just before GE14 were the UMNO crooks like him.

    Posted 6 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • Mother effing thief!

    Posted 6 years ago by Watchdog Watchdog · Reply