{"id":2358,"date":"2010-04-26T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/04\/tougher-fight-ahead-seen-in-the-next-battle\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T04:40:30","slug":"tougher-fight-ahead-seen-in-the-next-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/tougher-fight-ahead-seen-in-the-next-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tougher fight ahead seen in the next battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENANG: The DAP said today it expected a tougher contest in the  upcoming Sibu parliamentary by-election in Sarawak than that in the  just-concluded parliamentary by-election in Hulu Selangor where PKR, its  partner in the Pakatan Rakyat, lost to BN.<\/p>\n<p>Party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said Sibu as well as the three  state seats within it were BN seats. The state seats are Nangka, Pelawan  and Bawang Assan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting a tougher fight in Sibu but we will not give up and  will continue to fight towards achieving justice for all Malaysians,&#8221;  he told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>The Sibu seat fell vacant following the death of five-term MP and  federal deputy transport minister Robert Lau Hoi Chew on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Commission has set May 8 for nomination and May 16 for  polling.<\/p>\n<p>Lim, who is Penang Chief Minister, claimed that the BN had promised  to allocate about RM160 million for projects in Hulu Selangor and he  predicted that a similar or bigger amount would be promised for Sibu.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Pakatan candidate for the Hulu Selangor by-election, Zaid  Ibrahim of PKR, had garnered more votes than that obtained by PKR&#8217;s  late MP Zainal Abidin Ahmad in the 2008 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Zaid had polled 23,272 votes as against 24,997 obtained by the  victor, P Kamalanathan of the BN. Zainal had obtained 23,177 votes in  2008.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Bernama<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENANG: The DAP said today it expected a tougher contest in the upcoming Sibu parliamentary by-election in Sarawak than that in the just-concluded parliamentary by-election in Hulu Selangor where PKR, its partner in the Pakatan Rakyat, lost to BN. Party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said Sibu as well as the three state seats within it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}