Everything was smooth sailing. I wish there could be more days like this. There will be because if your inner world changes, your outside world also changes. Be the master of your mind.
A good day calls for a celebration, so I ordered myself a kampung chicken, vegetables stir-fried with garlic, and fried prawns for dinner. The chicken costs RM22, veggie RM8 and prawns RM30.
Today 1,200 Parti Keadilan Rakyat candidates took part in the party polls out of a total of 12,000 members throughout Johor. The article in the New Straits Times.
Azmin has slight edge in PKR polls hit by low turnout and technical glitches.
KUALA LUMPUR: The race for PKR deputy presidency is heating up between three heavyweight contenders in in cumbent Azmin Ali, Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and secretary-general Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
The party polls however continued to be hit with low voters turnout in Malacca and Johor yesterday.
PKR sources said all Azmin, Khalid and Saifuddin have received almost equal footings with vote margins in the seams of 40 and 50, during the polls held at divisional meetings in Kelantan, Pahang, Terengganu and Sarawak on Saturday.
A party insider said at present Azmin has a slight edge after emerging at the top in Pahang and possibly in Sarawak.
“I do not know the numbers, but Azmin is leading albeit by a wafer-thin margin. Saifuddin had won in Kelantan, pos sibly because the people knew him there better since he was the member of parliament for Machang.”
Another PKR member from Pahang however said that it was too early to indicate if Azmin would secure stronger results.
“We are still in the first stages of the polls. Moreover, voters’ turnout were quite low in some states during the first day.
Meanwhile, the party polls continued to suffer numerous setbacks including poor turn of voters and the late arrival of ballot papers.
Polling at the PKR Johor Baru division took place almost two hours late at 11.45am.
Some of the voters had turned up as early as 9am, all geared up to cast their votes. However, the voters had to wait for the ballot papers to arrive.
Incumbent Johor Baru division chief Tan Poh Lai, who was bidding for the PKR Wanita deputy chief post, however said polling went smoothly throughout the day.
In Malacca, state PKR chief Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin said he had not received any report of commotion or post ponement involving any of the divisions.
However, he said only 15 per cent out of 10,000 eligible PKR members had turned up to cast their votes at the divisional meetings.
"The low figure is expected as we had anticipated that only about 10 per cent of our members statewide will be casting their votes in the party elections," he told reporters after attending the Jasin PKR divisional meeting in Bemban here today.
In Sarawak, party polls in the state which only ended yesterday also experienced a low turnout of voters between 15 to 20 per cent at meetings held at 29 state divisions.
A party source said for example, the Stampin division which boasts a little more than 500 voters only saw 166 members cast their votes.
