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Najib jittery; poll predicts PAS wipeout; Jho Low’s arrest urged

KINI ROUNDUP Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

Nervous Najib

Despite a select audience and relatively tame questions, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said that speaking live last night at the first National Transformation 2050 (TN50) town hall session, held at the Tunku Chancellor Hall in Universiti Malaya, was his “most nervous” moment, in his long 41 years in politics.

Though it is not sure how he felt when his official motorcade whisking him away from the event was flashed with protest placards, some reading ‘Tangkap MO1' and ‘Selamatkan Malaya4', by protesting students.

During the meet, students handpicked to attend said that enhancing interracial harmony and expanding employment opportunities are things they hope to see in the government's list of TN50 policies.

Survey predicts PAS wipeout

Pakatan Harapan and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) forming the next government is one of several potential outcomes, according to the results of a preliminary survey released yesterday.

The survey also found 38 percent of almost 22,000 PAS supporters, who responded, said they would rather not vote, than choose between BN or a Pakatan Harapan-Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) alliance, in a straight fight.

The voting preferences phone survey which many thought to be done by BN and had set tongues wagging on social media for the past three weeks, was actually conducted by PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli’s Invoke Centre for Policy Initiatives (I-CPI).

Jho Low’s arrest urged

The Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4) urged Malaysian authorities to arrest and prosecute Penang-born billionaire Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, following revelations of new facts in relation to Low’s role in the movement of 1MDB-linked funds as revealed in a Singapore court.

Bersatu supreme council member Anina Saadudin lodged a police report over the same matter, urging authorities to probe Jho Low who was revealed to have used the identity of one ‘Eric Tan’ as his proxy name in 1MDB-linked transactions.

More Kinibites

Amid the ongoing debate on whether underbone motorcycles, often referred to locally as ‘kapcai’, should be banned from the heart of Kuala Lumpur, a DAP lawmaker has decided to provide free petrol for 1,000 kapcai riders.

Lim Guan Eng denied that DAP requested for the deputy prime minister post if the opposition wins the next general election, refuting reports that quoted Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad saying the socialist democratic party had asked for the post.

The Federal Court dismissed the government’s appeal with regard to seeking damages from electoral watchdog group Bersih for organising its third rally in 2012.

Looking ahead

Today, activists Safwan Anang and Adam Adli together with another party, will challenge the constitutionality of Section 4 of the Peaceful Assembly Act, which bars people from gathering at places of worship.

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