Rohaizat saddened by unfulfilled vows of Chinese support

Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Rohaizat Othman today hinted that one of the factors that could have caused his defeat was the “failure of the Chinese community to fulfill their promises of support”, in an indication that the racial rhetoric played and used against their rivals by the ruling coalition may have backfired.

Rohaizat lost to PAS Penang commissioner Mohd Salleh Man by a 4,551 majority. The former garnered 5,061 votes while the PAS leader more or less retained their majority, considering the drop in voter turnout compared to the general elections last year, by raking in 9,618 votes.

Speaking to a press conference here, Rohaizat revealed that his campaign's observation indicated that the support from the Chinese community here was dissapointing.

“I am saddened by the fact that the Chinese community here have failed to fulfill their vows of support. They have failed to understand the concept of development that BN is trying to bring to the people of Permatang Pasir,” said Rohaizat.

The Umno man, however, refused to elaborate why he thought Chinese support was not forthcoming, saying that he would leave it to the central leadership to conduct a post-mortem to reveal the reasons.

“It's premature for me to give any reasons now,” he added.

The Chinese make up 27 per cent of Permatang Pasir's population. BN have engaged in a vigorous attempt to regain much of the non-Malay votes that went to Pakatan Rakyat.

BN have tried to depict their election rival PAS as a threat to the Chinese by using sensitive issues like the pig abbatoir closure in Kedah and beer sale issue in Selangor against the Islamist party.

Analysts believe BN were making inroads among the Chinese here but efforts to translate them into votes faltered after Rohaizat's disbarment apparently became a deterrent.

But as for the Malay votes, Rohaizat said the number of votes gained by both sides showed just a slight difference from that of the general elections outcome.

The former Permatang Pasir assemblyman, the late Datuk Mohd Hamdan Abdul Rahman won with a 5,433 majority when he gained 11,004 votes against BN's Ahmad Sahar Shuib who managed to garner 5,571 votes.

“So today's result show that as far as Malay support is concerned, it is still very much the same,” he said.

BN deputy chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin also thought that, in terms of Malay support, their voting pattern remained the same but claimed the ruling coalition had made slight gains.

“Our studies have shown that there is not much difference in voting pattern. There are slight differences but are nominal ones,” he said, adding that the ruling coalition accepted the defeat with an open heart.


comments

So... whats the point ?

Chinese do vote for PAS... just like other by election.. like KT and else where... :)

How to win Chinese vote... MCA having a turmoil....

you think the Chinese are stupid? Just because they said they would vote for you doesn't mean they would actually do it. You shouldn't have depended on the Chinese vote. Just look at recent events and you will know why the Chinese didn't vote for you, so don't bother wasting money on an expensive "political analyst" to tell you why.

What a sore loser. No it is not only the Chinese voters. All voters who value honesty and intergrity have a problem voting for a person expelled by the Law Society for dishonesty. UMNO has no problem accepting candidates with a dishonest past best reflected by an idiot equating the dishonesty to a parking ticket offence. The Rakyat have spoken loudly with the big majority votes.

I wouldn't know whether BN candidate's conclusion that he did not receive Chinese support is accurate.
Anyway, if anyone cares to look at the short video featuring our beloved Rais Yatim,
one might see why people might not be too impressed by the performance of a Minister of many years' standing. Another boulder in the road to 1 Malaysia !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_87zEZFqk&feature=player_embedded
Pretty Ugly huh?


I think the PM and TPM were very disappointed because this time around they could not repeat their "moral victory" announcement. This is the standard pattern of voting for the whole country come the next GE. I believe PR will capture more BN held seats and God willing, will be able to form the next federal government. The rakyat have had enough of UMNO/BN's corrupt and arrogant type of governing. 52 years is long long time! You simply cannot cheat all the people all the time!



how Teoh Beng Hock was killed.. who order the MACC to sabotage the Pakatan-led Selangor state govt? You still expect the chinese to vote for the murderers?


"They (Chinese) have failed to understand the concept of development that BN is trying to bring to the people of Permatang Pasir," said Rohaizat.

"Concepts of development" that you are referring to:
1. empty slogan of 1Malaysia ???
2. Disbarred lawyer as candicate
3. RM 12 billions PKFZ
4. ISA all PR' YB
5. Teoh BH's death in MACC's office
6. MCA vs Kuala Dimensi
7. OTK vs Dr. Chua
8. MACC against all PR's YB
9. SPRM against all PR's YB
10. make all PR's YB become katak
11. Sue all PR's YB in the BN's court
12. take over all PR's state
13. jokes from Utusan Malaysia

TQ for the concepts and see you in the coming 13th general election.