Chua Sooi Lek to contest in Batu Pahat,where his sex DVD was secretly recorded...

Batu Pahat in Johor caught public courtesy final month when Information, Communications as good as Culture Minister Rais Yaim suggested that a survey by his ministry showed that this parliamentary subdivision has been categorised as a 'black seat' for BN.

Three others have additionally been likewise tagged in this southern state that has regularly prided itself as a BN building - Kluang, Bakri as good as Gelang Patah.

Rais' statement additionally set tongues a'wagging that MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek would be a BN's 'white knight' to urge Batu Pahat, a state's second largest town, as good as thereby opening door to his lapse to Parliament as good as a cabinet.

Born as good as prepared in Batu Pahat, Chua served as a healing officer during a General Hospital as good as later opened a hospital there, prior to building up his domestic base in a locale that is famous in Johor for a nasi briyani as good as asam pedas fish.

Not surprisingly, Chua is renouned there. Most Batu Pahat folk will give a thumbs up when asked about a contributions of a four-term Penggaram assemblyperson as good as three-term Johor exco partial of - prior to they fun about his sex DVD that was secretly recorded in a town's tip hotel in 2007.

Penggaram is a single of a three state seats underneath a Batu Pahat parliamentary constituency. Chua enjoyed an over 10,000-vote infancy in all his four electoral victories in Penggaram, prior to switching to a Labis parliamentary subdivision in 2004.

But how did Batu Pahat, a hearth of Umno, spin black for a BN?

The stream Batu Pahat MP is Puad Zarkashi (right) of Umno, who transposed Junaidy Abdul Wahab in a final choosing as good as was subsequently appointe! d emissary preparation apportion by Prime Minister Najib Razak, despite Puad being a first-term MP.

Puad bagged a estimable infancy of 12,704 votes in a 2008 polls though his opening was dark in comparison with his predecessor's infancy of 29,102 during a 2004 ubiquitous election.The staggering plunge of over 16,000 votes is believed to be caused by a Chinese electorate, making up scarcely half of a electorate in a constituency.

Batu Pahat is a churned constituency, with 53.1 percent Malay, 44.6 percent Chinese, as good as 1.8 percent Indian electorate (2008 figures). Penggaram, that covers a Batu Pahat locale centre, is a state chair with highest series of Chinese electorate - during 61.82 percent (latest figure).

According to internal village leaders, Puad unsuccessful to hoard a await of a Chinese since of a proposals he raised during his army as Batu Pahat locale councillor,said to be unfavourable to a Chinese community.

Growing anti-establishment sentiment

The anti-establishment view in between Johoreans, who for prolonged have been fixed BN supporters, continued to mount after a final election, generally in between a Chinese electorate in civic areas such as Penggaram.

Pakatan Rakyat has given listed Johor as a frontline state for a coming ubiquitous choosing battle as good as has deployed national leaders to bombard a state with almost daily ceramah, mouth-watering aggressive counter-responses from parties in a ruling coalition, that during timesturned ugly.

In Batu Pahat, antithesis ceramah featuri! ng tip P akatan leaders have drawn unprecedented crowds. The latest, in Batu Pahat's industrial zone of Sri Gading final Saturday by PKRde factolead er Anwar Ibrahim, drew a crowd of some-more than 2,000 people.

"Many of a family members as good as friends in Batu Pahat additionally see a big disproportion in between a voters," pronounced PKR Wanita central cupboard partial of Chua Yee Ling, who is from Batu Pahat.


Another cause encouraging Umno to palm a normal chair to MCA in sell for a safer chair is a recognition of Batu Pahat PKR multiplication arch as good as central leadership council partial of Syed Hamid Ali, a younger hermit of former PKR emissary president Syed Husin Ali.

Syed Hamid (left), who is popularly good well known in Batu Pahat as Pak Hamid, was a tyro personality in a late 1960s, prior to he transient arrest as good as assimilated a Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in a jungles.He outlayed some years in outcast prior to resettling in Malaysia in 1991 following a peace treaty in between a supervision as good as CPM.

The 69-year-old veteran, whose mother is Chinese, is reportedly good received by a Chinese community.

He has been politically active in a subdivision as good as is mostly seen with intensity DAP as good as PAS choosing possibilities in their door-to-door visits, portraying a image of a joined antithesis coalition, that is sorely not in within internal BN parties.

Although his revolutionary domestic background earns him a respect of members from his own celebration as good as other member parties, generally DAP, it might be a stumbling block if he tries to hoard a await of a older Malay electorate of Batu Pahat, a hearth of worried jingoist celebration Umno, that was shaped in 1946.


Chua challenging in hometown

However, most domestic observers believe, for various reasons, Chua would measure an easy ! victory should he contest in Batu Pahat. Among them have been a challenging Batu Pahat MCA division, that has been helmed by him for some-more than twenty years, as good as his contributions to a town, generally a multi-million ringgit flood mitigation plan implemented when he was a state exco member.

Also seen as very critical is that his candidacy will help win back a ebbing await of a Chinese voters, a Achilles' heel of Umno.

The impact of Chua's sex DVD liaison on Malay electorate is considered minimal in a subdivision where Umno commands a clever choosing machinery as good as where a infancy of a Malay electorate have been unapproachable as good as thankful to a party.


In return, Puad might pierce to Ayer Hitam, a diagonally opposite parliamentary subdivision held by emissary preparation apportion as good as MCA Youth arch Wee Ka Siong (left), who won with a respectable infancy of 13,909 votes in a final ubiquitous election.

The internal Umno multiplication has been lobbying to contest this some-more farming subdivision as it has some-more Malay electorate during 55.5 percent, whilst Chinese electorate make up 40 percent (2008 figures). Puad will undoubtedly suffer a improved chance in Ayer Hitam.

According to an MCA insider, Wee, an outspoken as good as clear girl personality who is good good well known in between a Chinese voters, might be deployed to urge 'tougher to win' MCA constituencies such as Kulai or Tebrau.

Wee is Johor Baru MCA multiplication arch as good as partial of a state collateral falls underneath Tebrau, a parliamentary chair held by an additional celebration leader, Teng Boon Soon, who has announced his goal to step down! when hi s stream term ends.

"If Wee is defeated, it might be good for Chua since his son, Tee Yong, will have a single fewer aspirant in a celebration eche! lon," sa id a celebration insider.

Tee Yong (right) was inaugurated to Parliament in 2008, taking over his father's Labis seat, as good as was recommended by his father to be done emissary agriculture as good as agro-based industries apportion when Najib reshuffled a cupboard in June 2009.

Both Tee Yong as good as Wee have been seen as rising stars in a MCA.

However, Najib might not be too keen to field both father as good as son as parliamentary candidates, for he might have to designate both of them as apportion as good as emissary minister, if most of a MCA possibilities destroy to survive a next election.

"Umno regularly says PKR is a family party, Najib cannot do a same in his own cabinet," pronounced an MCA observer.-Kuek Ser Kuang Keng,malaysiakini

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