Necessary, unlike PD, which wasn't.
The Judge over the electoral petition made sure this bye-election takes place. One, because the one on May 9th. was stolen by Mat Hassan. Two, to prove that Mat Hassan lost it the first time. I mean he's lost it, period. Because he'll lose this one, too.
Khairy didn't win Rantau for his Parliament for GE 14. That's the first indicator.
Rantau has a 53% Malay base, against 47% of non-Malays. Mat Hassan has to make sure all the Malays turn up to vote, a tall order, and all vote for him, a very, very tall order. PD showed that the Chinese and Indians know not to waste their votes on a loser.
Why did Mat Hassan directly or otherwise allow the "no-contest" episode to happen? He's not stupid, by any measure. He was there. He saw the commotion. He could, and should have stopped it. He was still the de facto MB. The authorities still respected him for it at that time.
Well, he had sensed that BN might have problems winning in the entire GE. His sure win would help. Help him, that is, and in no small way help BN if indeed it secured a slim win. All year he had followed Mahathir's visits to NS, sometimes incognito in unmarked cars. He had all the reports, official ones and more via the social media. If BN had scraped through, this court hearing wouldn't happen.
Yesterday MUBARAK NS had its meeting, and as expected this topic was mentioned. Not discussed, but mentioned. Yazid isn't one to discuss anything. He's there only to listen to the support he gets to all his ideas. In this case he had no ideas. And no support. Everybody should act independently, to support Mat Hassan or not. But no amount of lamenting by MUBARAK NS can change the mood of the Rantau voters. As I said to Ibrahim, just wait and see.
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