Firstly, it is to target the six parliamentary and 13 state assembly seats in south Johor to pave the way for Pakatan Rakyat to Putrajaya in the 13GE. The six Parliamentary seats are Johor Bahru, Pasir Gudang, Tebrau,. Gelang Patah, Kulai and Pulai. <\/span><\/p>\nThe 13 state assembly seats are Stulang, Tanjong Puteri, Johor Jaya, Permas, Puteri Wangsa, Tiram, Skudai, Nusajaya, Pengkalan Rinting, Kempas, Senai, Bukit Batu and Bukit Permai.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cJohor Bahru is the only state capital which had been able to maintain UMNO\/BN political hegemony since Merdeka in 1957, when other state capitals and urban centres have come under strong Opposition\/Pakatan Rakyat influence, namely Kuala Lumpur, Kajang, Ipoh, Klang, Subang Jaya, Kuching, Petaling Jaya, Seremban, George Town, Malacca, Kota Baru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuantan and Sungai Patani,\u201d according to Lim.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cSecondly it was to target a total of 19 parliamentary and 30 state assembly seats in the state of Johor, including the six parliamentary and 13 state assembly seats in south Johor.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\nThe additional parliamentary seats in the rest of Johor, according to Lim are Tanjong Piai, Kluang, Batu Pahat, Bakri, Labis, Segamat, Sekijang, Ledang, Muar, Ayer Hitam, Sri Gading, Simpang Rengam and Sembrong. <\/span><\/p>\nThe additional 17 state assembly seats are Pekan Nenas, Mengkibol, Penggaram, Layang-Layang, Parit Yaani, Maharani, Gambir, Tenang and Pemanis.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThis is to ensure that the 13GE will complete the partial \u201cpolitical tsunami\u201d in the 2008 General Elections, which saw the fall of BN in five states and the deprivation of BN\u2019s two-thirds parliamentary majority \u2013 propelling the Pakatan Rakyat to win power to form the new Federal Government in Putrajaya after the 13GE,\u201d he elaborated.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI am not claiming that Pakatan Rakyat can score a bullseye and win all the 19 parliamentary and 30 state Assembly seats in Johore mentioned.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIn fact, if Pakatan Rakyat can achieve 50 per cent of this target, it is already a \u2018phenomenal political revolution\u2019 in Johor, bearing in mind the arrogant boasts of Barisan Nasional leaders just five years ago before the 2008 general elections that they would ensure that Johor would become a \u201czero Opposition\u201d state!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nLim believes Pakatan can expect to hit more than 50% success for the its target of 19 parliamentary and 30 state assembly seats in Johor in the 13GE.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIn fact, it would be easier to achieve the objective of winning more than one-third of the parliamentary seats in Johor and help propel Pakatan Rakyat to Putrajaya to form the new Federal Government than to win a simple majority in the state assembly seats to form the next Johor state hovernment in the 13GE,\u201d he opined.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Thirdly, Lim said that the campaign was to end and transform the three BN \u201cfixed deposit\u201d states of Johor, Sabah and Sarawak as the new \u201cfixed deposit\u201d states of Pakatan Rakyat, as these three states hold the keys to Putrajaya in the 13GE.<\/span><\/p>\nIn the 2008 GE, PR won 82 parliamentary seats while BN won 140 seats. <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cIf in the 13GE, PR can win at least 40 percent of the total of 83 parliamentary seats in these three states, i.e. 33 out of a total of 83 seats in Johor, Sabah and Sarawak, PR would have exceeded the magic number of 112 for a simple majority of the 222 parliamentary seats,\u201d he outlined.<\/span><\/p>\nFinally, his campaign in Johor was to ensure that \u201cPakatan Rakyat can win with a good and comfortable majority by winning at least 125 parliamentary seats (i.e. with a majority of 28), comprising say 45 seats for PKR, 40 seats for DAP and PAS.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\nHe believes that by targeting a total of 25 parliamentary seats in the rest of the states which BN had won with less than 55 percent of the popular vote, PR can achieve its target. <\/span><\/p>\nThe seats he mentioned was Arau in Perlis, Alor Setar in Kedah, Kuala Nerus in Terengganu; Larut, Kuala Kangsar, Kampar and Lumut In Perak; Bentong, Raub and Jerantut in Pahang, Sabak Bernam and Pandan in Selangor; Rembau in Negri Sembilan and Bukit Katil in Malacca.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThese seats are already marginal seats to begin with. Many of these seats have experienced a sizable increase in the number of new voters, many of whom are younger voters who are more attracted to Pakatan\u2019s hope for the future than to be threatened by BN\u2019s scaremongering references to the past,\u201d Lim said.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/LKS1-300x198.jpg\" "\\"LKS#1\\"")
<\/a>\u201cGelang Patah will be my \u2018life-and-death\u2019 political battle as I will be fighting not just popular four-term Johor Mentri Besar, but the Prime Minister, Najib Razak, former longest-serving PM Tun Dr. Mahathir and future PM hopeful Muhyiddin Yassin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThis is probably the first time in Malaysian electoral history where an Opposition candidate will have to face four such UMNO heavy-weights all in one go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWhether I survive or perish, whether Gelang Patah will end up as my political \u201ckubur\u201d (grave) as exhorted by Mahathir to the people of Johor, I do not know, but I shall not withdraw from the Battle of Gelang Patah, for it has become the Battle of Johor and even the Battle of Malaysia,\u201d an emotional Lim said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHOR BAHRU, 15 April 2013 – DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said that his contest for the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat in the coming general elections (GE) was a high-risk decision, but that he had decided to do it for the sake of Malaysia. \u201cWhen I decided to leave the Ipoh Timor parliamentary seat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[284,151,25],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","tag-gelang-patah","tag-johor","tag-lim-kit-siang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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