{"id":49518,"date":"2024-09-24T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=49518"},"modified":"2024-09-23T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T02:53:49","slug":"mahkota-by-election-laying-the-foundation-for-ge16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/mahkota-by-election-laying-the-foundation-for-ge16\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahkota by-election: Laying the foundation for GE16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In GE15, all three coalitions &#8211; Pakatan Harapan, Barisan Nasional, and Perikatan Nasional &#8211; did not have the majority to form a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guided by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional came together to form the Unity Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"461034142 1073963670752403 742689764033957294 n\" class=\"wp-image-49522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/461034142_1073963670752403_742689764033957294_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Unity Government has held together for more than 22 months. We govern together, we win some elections together, and we want to build the nation for the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To guarantee stability for Malaysia\u2019s second takeoff and to secure the future of Malaysia, the Unity Government will need to contest GE16 together. We need to shape a one-to-one contest in GE16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"460728945 1073963747419062 432641964299263086 n\" class=\"wp-image-49523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/460728945_1073963747419062_432641964299263086_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Johor is the most important battleground. Johor has 26 parliamentary seats, making it the state with the most number of seats in the peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PH and BN combined have 24 out of these 26 seats, which forms the basis for federal power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mahkota by-election is therefore very crucial. It is the precursor to GE16. We need to ensure that PH and BN can govern together and win elections together. This is why PH and BN need to ensure that one-to-one battle against the opposition is the right formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liew Chin Tong<br \/>DAP Johor Chairman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In GE15, all three coalitions &#8211; Pakatan Harapan, Barisan Nasional, and Perikatan Nasional &#8211; did not have the majority to form a government. Guided by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Pakatan Harapan and Barisan Nasional came together to form the Unity Government. The Unity Government has held together for more than 22 months. We govern together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475,482],"tags":[644,260,333,3131],"class_list":{"0":"post-49518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"category-opinion","10":"tag-dap-johor","11":"tag-johor","12":"tag-liew-chin-tong","13":"tag-unity-government"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49518","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49525,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49518\/revisions\/49525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}