YOURSAY | ‘He has overestimated his political worthiness.’

DAP rejects Norhizam as candidate for Malacca election

'Who is DAP to stop me? - Norhizam on rejection as Harapan candidate

Harapan rejects Norhizam as candidate, appoints ex-CM Adly as team captain

A Little Bit Crazy: Incumbent Pengkalan Batu state assemblyperson Norhizam Hassan Baktee had overestimated his political worthiness. Please join Pejuang, Norhizam. They need you. Pakatan Harapan parties do not need you.

Harapan can contest in all 28 seats using existing or new candidates while the four former assemblypersons who caused the collapse of the state government - Norhizam, Bersatu's Noor Effandi Ahmad (Telok Mas), Umno's Idris Haron (Sungai Udang), and Azman Hassan (Pantai Kundor) - can retire immediately.

Umno and Bersatu have sacked three of four frogs, and if Harapan does not accept them, these four can ‘balik kampung’.

By the way, there are no merit points I can see from taking in these four, especially Norhizam. He will jump again if he wins in November.

BlueShark1548: Norhizam won his seat on a DAP ticket, and it is only right that another DAP candidate be nominated to defend this seat in the upcoming Malacca state election set on Nov 20.

He had denounced the DAP as a Chinese party. The DAP had made it clear it would not accept Norhizam to contest under Harapan.

It looks like Harapan is likely to fight the election under each party's logo because PKR is prepared to accept those four traitors.

Bravo DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng for rejecting Norhizam as a candidate.

The DAP has been consistent as far as party-hoppers are concerned - it denounces them, unlike PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim.

The Malacca state election would put Anwar to the test, and it might be his last hurrah. If Anwar accepts the frogs, then Harapan would break up and each would contest under its own logo.

Have a talk, if necessary, after the election, which I think PKR is likely to lose.

Appum: I agree. All this while, if we observe carefully, the DAP has been consistent with its principles and policies. Rejecting this pengkhianat (traitor) is proof of that.

Sentiment-wise, it is not difficult to understand how the rakyat feel against such traitors. It is better to lose with principles intact than to win shamefully.

Also, it would be a good time to use the Harapan logo in this state election. PKR should see the long-term implications and not be so egocentric.

Fair Play: Norhizam’s reply to Lim’s statement is nothing but sheer arrogance.

Lim, you have the authority to stop this person from standing in the seat that he won under the DAP in the 14th general election.

If Anwar disagrees, you then have the right to put your candidate instead of giving it to PKR with Norhizam as its candidate.

But, of course, if Norhizam stands as an independent, the DAP can just destroy him politically.

This would be the preferred choice as a redemption for the party’s poor judgement in GE14.

Annonnymousl: Norhizam should know that both the DAP and Amanah are part of the Harapan coalition and therefore have a big say on whether to accept traitors who brought down the previous Harapan-led Malacca.

Norhizam was one of those traitors. After bringing down the Harapan state government, he went on to do the same act on the now-dissolved Bersatu-Umno state government.

If he joins Umno or Bersatu, then Harapan leaders would not be able to stop him, but I guess both parties would not welcome a politician like Norhizam.

His only option is to stay as independent, and this would mean him going jobless.

All his political manoeuvrings point to one thing - his greed for positions to enrich himself. It has nothing to do about serving the people. Politicians like Norhizam should be resoundingly rejected.

Exile: In an ordinary democracy, it is the electorate who decide who their state assembly representatives will be, who in turn will elect one from among them to be the chief minister. It is time we reminded ourselves of the basics of our system.

I am not in favour of ‘frogs’ but ultimately, I propose to let the electorate decide together with my one vote.

The party logo is an important symbol but is not more important than what are the respective parties’ principles and purposes. In this, the component parties of Harapan have different core values that cannot be easily papered over.

I suspect that the Harapan coalition will be another version of BN at best and could even be worse.

It is better if all parties compete under their own logo as they have explicit principles and purposes.

Annonnymousl: It is good that Norhizam has been resoundingly rejected by Harapan. He is the worst kind of politician who betrayed voters time and again.

Voters must not allow MPs and assemblypersons to use their positions to enrich themselves by defecting for their selfish interests.

This decision by Harapan to reject Norhizam should send a strong signal to politicians who betray voters by frogging to clamour for positions. All the greedy politicians should not take voters as fools.

Decide carefully and seriously on which party you would like to represent and stay put until your term ends and by all means, change party if you are not happy by that time.

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