The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system

Malaysian politics in the post-2008 has started to gain its own currency. People’s proclivity towards the rapid rise of the opposition was perceived as an emerging trend due to political instability. The direction is indeed escalating in a more persuasive ways. The advent of inter-party system est...

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Main Authors:	Ariff Aizuddin Azlan, Zulkanain Abdul Rahman, Amer Saifude Ghazali
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11092/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11092/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11092/1/16230-45523-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-110922017-12-12T07:12:22Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11092/ The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system Ariff Aizuddin Azlan, Zulkanain Abdul Rahman, Amer Saifude Ghazali, Malaysian politics in the post-2008 has started to gain its own currency. People’s proclivity towards the rapid rise of the opposition was perceived as an emerging trend due to political instability. The direction is indeed escalating in a more persuasive ways. The advent of inter-party system establishment, particularly the opposition, has provided a significant political comprehension as it grew out of the misplaced ideological attachment. People started to opt for the opposition and perceived it as the bringer of dissenting voices and awaited yardstick to ensure greater participation and pave the way for democratization. The emerging trend in the post-2008 has to a certain extent disclosed an uneasy feeling for the ruling BN in maintaining some sort of penetrated status quo. However the case was a bit different in the September 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election. The by-election was called to be held and witnessed the struggling competing parties, namely between BN (UMNO) and PR (PAS). This article, somehow, found that the inter-party establishment (PR) strategy did not affect much in the case of Pengkalan Kubor byelection due to certain factors, be it internal and as well as external. Thus, it led to a strong suggestion that the opposition inter-party system establishment should (re)-strategize its collective strategy, making it more adaptable to the current socio-politico milieu. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11092/1/16230-45523-1-PB.pdf Ariff Aizuddin Azlan, and Zulkanain Abdul Rahman, and Amer Saifude Ghazali, (2016) The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 12 (12). pp. 88-98. ISSN 2180-2491 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gmjss/issue/view/874
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description	Malaysian politics in the post-2008 has started to gain its own currency. People’s proclivity towards the rapid rise of the opposition was perceived as an emerging trend due to political instability. The direction is indeed escalating in a more persuasive ways. The advent of inter-party system establishment, particularly the opposition, has provided a significant political comprehension as it grew out of the misplaced ideological attachment. People started to opt for the opposition and perceived it as the bringer of dissenting voices and awaited yardstick to ensure greater participation and pave the way for democratization. The emerging trend in the post-2008 has to a certain extent disclosed an uneasy feeling for the ruling BN in maintaining some sort of penetrated status quo. However the case was a bit different in the September 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election. The by-election was called to be held and witnessed the struggling competing parties, namely between BN (UMNO) and PR (PAS). This article, somehow, found that the inter-party establishment (PR) strategy did not affect much in the case of Pengkalan Kubor byelection due to certain factors, be it internal and as well as external. Thus, it led to a strong suggestion that the opposition inter-party system establishment should (re)-strategize its collective strategy, making it more adaptable to the current socio-politico milieu.
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author_facet	Ariff Aizuddin Azlan, Zulkanain Abdul Rahman, Amer Saifude Ghazali,
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title	The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system
title_short	The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system
title_full	The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system
title_fullStr	The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system
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publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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The 2014 Pengkalan Kubor by-election in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia: electoral democracy via opposition inter-party system

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