90. A hung parliament is likely

The  roads in KK are quite empty today (outsiders in big numbers  gone home to vote)  and yet Musa Aman says we are doing well.  Joshua

BN, Pakatan running neck and neck three days before polls

Kow Gah Chie    http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/228811 4:07PM May 2, 2013

Pakatan Rakyat today quoted an "internal source" as saying that the coalition is in a deadlock situation with BN three days ahead of the general election - where both sides could win 110 parliamentary seats each.
“BN is now in its final stage of vote-buying, (along with) employing foreign workers and using ‘delible’ ink,” said DAP political education bureau chief Liew Chin Tong.

Liew (right) urged voters to go back to Sabah and Sarawak to cast their ballots, as both states have been deemed important by Pakatan for capturing Putrajaya.

He said the situation was particularly critical in the Sibu parliamentary seat, where DAP could lose if the voter turnout on Sunday was below 75 percent.

He explained that with two more days left for campaigning, the party machinery needed to focus on encouraging voters to return home to vote.
Boosting the turnout rate is no easy task, as the 2008 general election and 2010 by-election for Sibu only recorded turnout rates of 68 percent and 70 percent, he said.

Liew added that the alliance has a clear picture that 53 percent of the voters support Pakatan Rakyat, an increase of two percent as compared with the 2008 election.

However, a similar survey could not be carried out in Sabah and Sarawak this time, so the support on the ground there could not be fully analysed this time.
However, he said Pakatan could win at least seven parliamentary seats in each of the East Malaysian states, and, more optimistically, could even expect to win 23 seats in all there.
Pakatan, he added, hoped to win in at least 125 out of the 222 parliamentary seats, with DAP and PAS each taking 40 seats and PKR winning in 45 seats.

Liew is campaigning for DAP’s Sibu candidate Oscar Ling, Lanang candidate Alice Lau and Sarikei candidate Andrew Wong.