{"id":7795,"date":"2014-04-07T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2014-04-07T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:39:47","slug":"dr-wan-azizah-sworn-in-as-kajang-state-assemblywoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/dr-wan-azizah-sworn-in-as-kajang-state-assemblywoman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Wan Azizah sworn in as Kajang State Assemblywoman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wan-azizah-swore-in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7799\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"wan azizah swore in\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wan-azizah-swore-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wan-azizah-swore-in.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wan-azizah-swore-in-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/wan-azizah-swore-in-234x175.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>SHAH ALAM, April 7 : Dr Wan Azizah was sworn in as the Kajang Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN)\u00a0representative earlier today following her win in the Kajang by-election held on 23 March. By emerging victorious \u00a0in Kajang, Dr Wan Azizah became the 15th woman in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PKR president triumphed over Barisan Nasional&#8217;s Chew Mei Fun by a\u00a05,379 vote majority; the reduction in majority compared to her 2013 predecessor was attributed to the lower voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the fewer number of voters, Dr Wan Azizah increased her vote share percentage to 59 percent, a tw0 percent increase compared to the 2013 general election. Pakatan also managed to increase its share of Malay votes in the Kajang by-election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI solemnly swear to carry out my responsibilities as a state assemblyman,\u201d she said at the opening of the Selangor state assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The success of Pakatan&#8217;s &#8220;Kajang move&#8221; brings Pakatan one step closer to Putrajaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAH ALAM, April 7 : Dr Wan Azizah was sworn in as the Kajang Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN)\u00a0representative earlier today following her win in the Kajang by-election held on 23 March. By emerging victorious \u00a0in Kajang, Dr Wan Azizah became the 15th woman in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly. The PKR president triumphed over Barisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","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=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}