{"id":41984,"date":"2020-11-19T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=41984"},"modified":"2020-11-19T07:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T23:03:53","slug":"deepest-condolences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/deepest-condolences\/","title":{"rendered":"Our deepest condolences to the loved ones of UMNO MP Dato&#8217; Hasbullah Bin Oman."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HASBULLA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17591\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>DAP extends our condolences to the family of Gerik UMNO MP Hasbullah Osman, who passed away yesterday from a heart attack. Even though we were on opposite sides of the divide, Hasbullah has contributed over two terms as a parliamentarian and to his constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hasbullah\u2019s passing necessitates another by-election within 60 days, which could pose risks to public health and safety when Malaysia is in the midst of a record surge in COVID-19 infections. In recognition of his services and that Malaysia is in the grip of a severe 3rd wave of COVID-19 infections, there should be no contest in the by-election by parties opposed to UMNO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public safety should come first and take priority over politicking and electioneering. The public cannot forget the spike in COVID-19 infections after Sabah was forced to conduct general elections when irresponsible money politics and attempted buying of assemblyman to take away the people\u2019s right to choose their own state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There should be a pause to political electioneering until the danger and risks posed by COVID-19 is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lim Guan Eng<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secretary General, DAP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAP extends our condolences to the family of Gerik UMNO MP Hasbullah Osman, who passed away yesterday from a heart attack. Even though we were on opposite sides of the divide, Hasbullah has contributed over two terms as a parliamentarian and to his constituents. Hasbullah\u2019s passing necessitates another by-election within 60 days, which could pose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}