{"id":554,"date":"2009-07-08T18:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/07\/pas-focuses-on-bread-and-butter-issues\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:39:23","slug":"pas-focuses-on-bread-and-butter-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/pas-focuses-on-bread-and-butter-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"PAS focuses on bread and butter issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">KUALA KRAI, July 8 \u2014 Kota Baru MP Datuk Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah today criticised Umno\u2019s use of the government machinery and personal attacks in their campaigning even as PAS continues to address bread and butter issues on the ground.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">The PAS deputy election director told reporters that there was no chance of Umno winning for as long as \u201cit does not understand the circumstances in Manek Urai where voters are traditional and religious.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">In a move that seeks to show how locals are not amused by Umno\u2019s personal attacks on Mohd Fauzi Abdullah, Rahim said that the local fish industry association would protest on Friday against the \u201cdemeaning way\u201d Umno has described Mohd Fauzi, a fish wholesaler. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">He said that the \u201cfishing profession has been insulted\u201d by Umno\u2019s attacks on PAS candidate Mohd Fauzi Abdullah being less educated as compared to Umno\u2019s Tuan Aziz Tuan Mat.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">PAS expects the majority to increase from the 1,352 in 2008 to beyond 2,000 votes.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Examples like the federal government decision to ban insurance policies for cars worth less than RM10,000 would be used to show villagers how BN is leaving them at risk.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">When asked at a press conference if he felt Umno was desperate for an election win after four consecutive losses in Peninsular Malaysia (BN did not contest in Penanti), Rahim agreed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">He said it would \u201cgive them a new breath of life\u201d but added that their campaign had so far missed the point.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cIn all the mosques here, not a single imam (religious official) supports Umno,\u201d he claimed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cThe fundamental thing here is that PAS fights for Islam but Umno has rejected the pursuit of Islam,\u201d the election adviser for the July 14 vote said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Rahim also said that the infamous \u201cinstant noodles\u201d development projects that the Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government had been implementing here was \u201cwelcome as it benefits the public\u201d but that the alleged misuse of government funds for political purposes was not what Manek Urai people wanted.-MalaysianInsider<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA KRAI, July 8 \u2014 Kota Baru MP Datuk Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah today criticised Umno\u2019s use of the government machinery and personal attacks in their campaigning even as PAS continues to address bread and butter issues on the ground. The PAS deputy election director told reporters that there was no chance of Umno [&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\/554"}],"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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}