Seorang penganalisa politik tempatan meramalkan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak menang besar dalam ibu segala pilihan raya yang djangka tahun depan.

Prof Datuk Dr Mohamed Mustafa Ishak dari Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM itu berkata, tsunami politik tidak akan berulang sebagaimana 2008.

Dalam tahun itu BN kalah teruk dengan kehilangan lima negeri – Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak, Selangor dan Kelantan – yang dimenangi PAS sejak 1990.

Ketua Jawatankuasa Kluster Politik, Keselamatan dan Hal Ehwal Antarabangsa itu berkata, “selalunya perdana menteri baru akan menang besar dalam pilihan raya pertama mereka.

“Jadi saya kira Najib akan menang besar dalam pilihan raya umum 13. Rakyat mula yakin dengan transformasi Najib.

“Saya kira satu atau dua kerusi yang dimenangi Pakatan Rakyat akan kembali kepada BN.”

Pakatan Rakyat meramalkan Parlimen akan dibubarkan pada bulan Februari atau Mac untuk membuka laluan kepada pilihan raya umum ke 13.

Najib berulangkali mengingatkan partinya BN supaya bersiap sedia menghadapi pilihan raya tersebut.

`Tiada box office lagi’

Dr Mohamed Mustafa juga menolak faktor pemimpin popular pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menjadi faktor penentu keputusan pilihan raya umum 13.

Menurutnya, sama ada mantan timbalan perdana menteri itu dipenjarakan atau tidak, ia tidak boleh mempengaruhi rakyat lagi.

“Filem Anwar tidak boleh jadi box office lagi, tidak laku lagi kerana orang sudah tengok pada tahun 1999,” tambahnya.

Mahkamah tinggi akan membuat keputusan terhadap perbicaraan kes liwat Anwar pada 9 Januari ini.
Bagaimanapun, Dr Mohamed Mustafa menegaskan teori itu hanya ramalan belaka.

Menurutnya, jika berlaku kes besar dalam masa dua tiga bulan sebelum pilihan raya, ia akan mempengaruhi sokongan rakyat.

Tetapi, katanya, melihatkan keadaan sekarang dijangka tidak ada isu besar akan berlaku.-FMT
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KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysian airport authorities have gone on “red alert” against drug trafficking following a surge this year in arrests and drug seizures, a senior customs official said Thursday.
Customs officers have begun this week screening all inbound passengers to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and an adjacent budget carrier terminal, said M. Govinden, customs director-in-charge at KLIA.
He said 195 kilograms (430 pounds) of drugs were seized and 33 people arrested at the two terminals so far this year, despite Malaysia’s tough anti-drug laws which include a mandatory death sentence for traffickers.
Govinden added that drug seizures were at their highest level in a decade.
“The smuggling of drugs through airports is becoming very serious. Last week alone three arrests were made. More would have come in and slipped through the net (without the higher security),” he told Agence France-Presse.
Smugglers have traditionally arrived from Africa and the Middle East but were expanding their originating points to include places like Bangladesh and the Philippines, he said.
A Malaysian man arriving from Manila on Tuesday — traditionally not a major source of trafficked drugs to Malaysia — was arrested with three kilograms of amphetamines hidden in his luggage, Govinden said.
He added that customs inspectors were now on “red alert” with all incoming flights considered “high risk”. Govinden did not say how long the heightened security level would last.
Malaysia has seen a string of recent drug-trafficking busts involving foreigners from countries in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere in Asia.
In October, a Malaysian court sentenced a Japanese women to death for smuggling methamphetamines into the country in what officials said was the first such case involving a citizen of Japan.

- http://globalnation.inquirer.net/21839/red-alert-in-malaysia-over-drug-trafficking

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