Anizah Shukry, FMT

Malaysians must boycott the “pesta kegilaan” (festival of madness) by the opposition over claims of electoral fraud and accept that Barisan Nasional won the 13th general election.

(Bernama) - The government would not be issuing warnings anymore but would act tough against individuals whose extreme actions would only disrupt public order, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today.

Robert Phang says the anti-graft watchdog must now monitor the new minister’s performance.

Alyaa Azhar, FMT

Paul Low violated Transparency International’s code of ethics when he accepted his appointment as a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, former MACC advisor Robert Phang said today.

At first Chua sneered at Lim Keat Siang’s announcement to contest in Gelang Patah and said that Lim was ‘dreaming’. It would later turn out that Lim’s ‘dream’ had come true. We all witnessed how energetic and enthusiastic Lim could be even he is already in his seventies. He fought with such zeal over the past month, he travelled north and south for thousands of miles and he kept his morale high to the last minute. It was not by luck that DAP emerged a winner, for Lim had been giving out ceramah not only in his constituency but all over Malaysia.

By Xing Yue Zhen邢月珍 @ nanyang.com

It’s OK. We are brought up that way. 

S. Narayanan

(NST) - Former Indonesian president Jusuf Kalla has expressed disappointment with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, whom he said had rejected his defeat  and any form of reconciliation with his rivals in Barisan Nasional.

RIMANEWS -- Anwar Ibrahim, pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang merupakan partai oposisi di Malaysia, membuat Mantan Wakil Presiden RI periode 2004-2009 Jusuf Kalla (JK) kecewa dengan sikap yang ditunjukkan sahabatnya dalam menyikapi hasil pemilu disana.

(Agenda Daily) - SPR menyelar Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Raja Fitnah apabila mendakwa 500,000 undi awal anggota pasukan keselamatan dimanipulasi pada PRU13 kerana jumlah sebenar pengundi berdaftar untuk kategori itu, cuma kira-kira 230,000.

Anis Nazri, Harakah Daily

PAS Selangor akan menerima apa sahaja keputusan yang diperkenan Sultan Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah berhubung senarai exco negeri itu.

Tiada keputusan dicapai dalam mesyuarat itu kerana kuasa penentu berada di tangan Sultan Selangor, kata Khalid Samad. 

(Fmt) - Timbalan Pengerusi DAP Selangor, Tony Pua terlupa bahawa terdapat dua pilihan dalam isu senarai Ahli Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri (Exco) yang diumumkan Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim hingga menimbulkan salah faham.

Sekilas pandang terhadap Hindraf berikutan pelantikan Waythamoorthy sebagai timbalan menteri dalam Kabinet Najib.

Memorandum persefahaman (MoU) ditandatangani antara BN pimpinan Najib dan Hindraf pimpinan Waythamoorthy pada 18 April lalu; dan selebihnya adalah sejarah. Memandangkan sejarah ditulis oleh pihak yang menang, jangan terkejut jika buku-buku teks Sejarah di sekolah seluruh Malaysia pada masa depan mengangkat Waythamoorthy setaraf Mahatma Gandhi.

Uthaya Sankar, SB

(The Star) - The rift between Hindraf founders and brothers P. Uthayakumar and Waythamoorthy is set to widen with the elder brother, who lost in his bid to take the Kota Raja parliamentary and Sri Andalas state seats, blaming his sibling for the polls defeat.

DBKL has been ineffective in improving the administration of KL, says DAP's Lau Weng San.

Alyaa Azhar, FMT

Kampung Tunku DAP state assemblyman Lau Weng San today urged the federal government to return the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur to Selangor.

At a shop, sometimes, we don't have a choice...

KoSong 

Political youth: MCA members (from left) Chew, Liaw, Desmond, Lim and Nicole holding up speech bubbles calling for party renewal. 

(The Star) - A group of six young MCA members has launched a new movement to overhaul the party, calling for direct elections to empower members to have a bigger say in the party's direction and leadership.

(NST) -  Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has been asked to justify the reappointment of PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Selangor economic adviser.

So, yes, we too in the UK were not happy with the system. And we ‘sold out’ the ruling party and ‘toppled’ the government because we were not happy with the system. But no one told us if we are not happy with the system then we can get out of Britain and go live in another country. If they had done that they would have been crucified. They would have been hung upside down from the nearest tree. We would have nailed their balls (or tits) to the wall.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Now, what I do not understand is: why emphasise ‘on a Chinese woman’? The Chinese scream that they are not racists. Yet they send me this very racist e-mail. This woman was humiliated or treated badly. That is wrong. Period! But to play up this issue as a racial issue is more wrong. And this is what Malaysians like to do. They like to emphasise that so-and-so who is Chinese or Indian is a victim of such-and-such.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Meena Lakshana, fz.com

Pakatan Rakyat's popular vote win in GE13 is limited to four states and Kuala Lumpur, according to an analysis by Sinar Harian.

Leven Woon, FMT

DAP has disputed Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim’s statement that the party will be given three exco and one speaker posts in the state administration.

Boo Su-Lyn, TMI

The Selangor DAP is questioning the state executive council composition announced by Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim yesterday, barely a week after a furore in PKR over the state’s top post was settled.

Student activist Adam Adli Abd Halim has been remanded for  five days  to allow police to question him over remarks he allegedly made at a post-GE13 forum.

EMERGING TREND: Young Malaysians are voting across racial lines and this is a sign of unity, National Unity and Integration Department director-general Datuk Azman Amin Hassan tells Tan Choe Choe

In Malaysia, our politics is still race based, so there's still this demarcation by race when it comes to the election. But there's been a shift -- not just the Chinese shift to DAP. I've talked to the youths and the Malay Pas boys told me that they voted for DAP. They told me it's because they are Pakatan -- that there's an understanding between Pas and DAP.

Tan Choe Choe, NST

Eric Loo, fz.com

A friend emailed a photo story on May 3 of "foreign workers" arriving at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal, KLIA, in Sepang. It said the workers were being brought in to vote for Barisan Nasional (BN). Phantom voters!

To join or not to join the Cabinet, either way is a dead end for MCA. All I can say is, why the brainless bet in the very first place? In the absence of support from the Chinese community and recognition from the government, MCA’s future is bleak.

Tay Tian Yan, Sin Chew

Dr Mahathir, despite being the hard man that he was, would never abandon the component parties. He was always loyal to his allies even if he knew some of them to be corrupt or were no longer useful to the coalition. Friendships mattered to Dr Mahathir. He did not use people and then forget them later.

Zaid Ibrahim, TMI

There are many good reasons for English-medium schools to be reintroduced, chief of which must surely be the language's neutral status whereby no one can claim ownership to it.

Wong Chun Wai, The Star 

'But why should I retire? We won. Are Umno people stupid? We won and we will fight together with the people against this robbery, says Anwar at a Penang rally.

Athi Shankar, FMT

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim will not retire from active politics any time soon, hinting that he would still be around come the next general election.

Boo Su-Lyn, TMI

The Selangor executive council will be sworn in within the next two weeks, Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said yesterday.