{"id":345,"date":"2009-05-18T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/05\/nizar-a-favourite-in-pass-v-p-race\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T01:14:39","slug":"nizar-a-favourite-in-pass-v-p-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/nizar-a-favourite-in-pass-v-p-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Nizar a favourite in PAS\u2019s V-P race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 \u2013 Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, who is struggling to win back the post of Perak Menteri Besar, is a favourite to win a vice-president\u2019s seat in Parti Islam SeMalaysia\u2019s (PAS) elections next month, party officials said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><br \/>He is among the upcoming leaders within PAS with professional qualifications, and not from the clerics group, who are expected to dominate in the polls &#8211; a sign that the party wants to shift away from being Malay-based.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNizar is one of the leading contenders for the three vice-president posts,\u201d a PAS official said as reported by NST<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p>The British-trained engineer quickly gained popularity for resolving issues affecting minorities during his short tenure as Perak\u2019s chief minister. The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) government that he led was toppled by Barisan Nasional in February. PAS is a member of the three-party PR.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p>An unknown to many PAS members just a year ago, Nizar is now a household name because of the way he calmly handled the Perak crisis.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has come out from that looking as the future leader of the nation,\u201d said an aide to a senior party leader.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<p>Nizar\u2019s popularity shows that party members are more concerned about performance than on whether its office-bearers are ulama, or clerics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 \u2013 Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, who is struggling to win back the post of Perak Menteri Besar, is a favourite to win a vice-president\u2019s seat in Parti Islam SeMalaysia\u2019s (PAS) elections next month, party officials said.He is among the upcoming leaders within PAS with professional qualifications, and not from the clerics [&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\/345"}],"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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}