We apologise for the delay with the pics, but after a tiring week, here are the pics from the angkat sumpah ceremony. We were not ever allowed to take pictures of the official swearing in.
The ceremony took place at the Balairung Seri, Istana Alam Shah in Klang. The ceremony began at 10am and ended at 12pm, after which we were all invited to a sit down lunch with the King.
Above : Balairung Seri, Istana Alam Shah Klang (Yes its all in GOLD!!)
KeADILan’s economic agenda received a resounding mandate on March 8th when Malaysians went to the polls and quadrupled the number of seats held by the opposition in Parliament, awarding us with 50% of the seats in West Malaysia. After a decade of economic mismanagement, unchecked inflation in recent years and lagging competitiveness vis-a-vis Malaysia’s neighbours, we are confident that under our leadership and working closely with our partners, we will begin to implement policies to ensure a stronger and more vibrant economy in Malaysia.
Looking to the future, the coalition, using its control of five key states, Selangor, Perak, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan, will implement business-friendly, free-market policies to stimulate growth, attract foreign investment and promote greater accountability and transparency in business dealings.
One of our priorities in the upcoming weeks will be to initiate dialogues with the foreign investment community already present in Selangor, Perak, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan to ensure investor confidence remains strong during the transition period and also to identify areas of concern that our new governments will address in enhancing and improving their operations and performance in Malaysia.
Our no-tolerance policy on corruption will have a major impact in reducing transaction costs and building confidence in small and medium enterprise. We also plan to divorce government employees from doing business with the government thereby reducing incentives for cronyism and insider deals which are plaguing the current administration.
The Malaysian Economic Agenda which was a cornerstone of KeADILan’s election promises can be implemented at the state level to reduce race-based affirmative action policies and begin to implement a more competitive, merit based system. This will immediately increase foreign investment, improve the state’s tax revenue and begin to promote more equity and income parity. Furthermore we will honour our promise to protect the marginalized from each ethnic community.
The unexpected margin of our victory caught the nation and the region by surprise. A short term adjustment in the KLSE and weakening of the Ringgit is expected but will not persist unless Barisan Nasional chooses to pursue a regressive policy of punishment, and withholds its commitments for development allocations to the now opposition controlled states. We would warn Barisan Nasional however, that doing so will further alienate its position with the people.
To all our supporters, well wishers and friends and family, we want to say a big thank you for being with us through this challenging week.
We thank the people for the their faith in us and look forward to fulfilling the mandate and the task in caring for Sri Andalas, and Selangor as a whole.
We are still recovering from elections and will post more material as possible.
The official results are
Dr AX Jayakumar : 20 258
Kamala Ganapathy : 10 055
MAJORITY : 10 203
The annoucement was made at 5.30 am @ Bukit Naga, Shah Alam.
The result was this late, because of the delay tactics being used by Selangor SPR, to buy time before they had to declare that Selangor had fallen to the opposition. It was rumored that the delay was so that BN could clear Selangor SUK of all incriminating documents.
Dr X Team : We will post asap-must get back 1 week of lost sleep
At 2am on the 27th Feb, our Wakil Calon was called by PAS members to document the destruction of the KeADILan posters by Barisan National. These photo’s were taken as proof of their blatant breach of the Election Offences Act. Jalan Sri Sarawak 23, Taman Sri Andalas (in front of Abiz Mart)
Tomorrow morning we will file our complaints, with SPR, the police and even the BN.
If you drive 2 cars, have 1 main house (and maybe 1 or 2 other properties), have 3 children (which you can bringup without tightening the strings of your purse), have a good job, and 2 credit cards. . . . would anything at all concern you this PRU -12 ??
The DrX Team has been cracking our heads on how to get to upper middle class voters. The reason is that, they don’t come for ceramah’s, they aren’t around when we leaflet (or don’t come out if they are) and they generally aren’t interested in the opposition.
A troublesome and worrying situation indeed. Troublesome because our task as campaigners has become all the more difficult, and worrying because. the level of ignorance and non-chalance displayed by some people, is so typical of the BN’s propaganda results.
What issues open their eyes ? What are their concerns and needs ?
Give us your thoughts and ideas.. . . as always we want to hear from you.
The HIndraf wanted to give roses to the PM on Sat 16 Feb 2008. Needless to say the roses never got to the PM. But what is most upsetting is the level of violence and utter disregard for Article 10 Federal Constitution : The right to assemble peacefully. Many CHILDREN !! were hosed down with tear gas as well.
Before leaving for the palace.
