{"id":4839,"date":"2013-04-15T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2013-04-15T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:44:46","slug":"perak-dap-reveals-pr-would-form-state-government-says-malay-support-overwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/perak-dap-reveals-pr-would-form-state-government-says-malay-support-overwhelming\/","title":{"rendered":"Perak DAP reveals PR would form state government, says Malay support overwhelming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DAPPerak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4843\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"DAPPerak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DAPPerak-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DAPPerak-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DAPPerak-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DAPPerak-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>IPOH, 15 Apr \u2014 Perak DAP Secretary, Nga Kor Ming revealed that the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would march forward and form the state government, defeating the Barisan Nasional (BN) come May 5 elections by securing at least 36 to 40 out of 59 state assembly seats.<\/p>\n<p>Nga said, he obtained the information through \u201cseveral sources of intelligence\u201d, and \u201cinternal tips\u201d also suggested that a potentially huge PR win in Perak could be derived from an increasing level of understanding among the Malay community towards the DAP cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey [the Malays in Perak] are supporting, but they are not showing it physically,\u201d he said, after a mega ceramah at Taman Canning here, on 14 April.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nga, the Malay acceptance towards the struggles of the DAP can also be measured based on the overwhelming support from the Malays during the friendly sessions held by the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore, only 500 people would attend our ceramah. Now, it can reach to 5,000 people. Lots of Malays are attending, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven I am shocked by the good response sometimes, not just in Pantai Remis and Taiping but in our programmes in other places as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nga, also the incumbent Member of Parliament for Taiping, said that while BN, particularly UMNO frequently spew the seeds of hatred among the Malays towards the DAP and PR using all sorts of racially-charged slanders, the community now understands that the real issue is not about race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Malays, especially those in rural areas feel offended and angry when they come to know about the NFC cow scandal involving UMNO Wanita Chief, Shahrizat Jalil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Winning 31 seats compared to BN\u2019s 28 in the 2008 elections, Pakatan Rakyat\u2019s governance in Perak was short-lived, seeing three state assemblypersons defecting to become independents, paving the way for an unconstitutional power seizure in February 2009. \u2014 The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPOH, 15 Apr \u2014 Perak DAP Secretary, Nga Kor Ming revealed that the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would march forward and form the state government, defeating the Barisan Nasional (BN) come May 5 elections by securing at least 36 to 40 out of 59 state assembly seats. Nga said, he obtained the information through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","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=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}