{"id":21541,"date":"2018-04-10T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21541"},"modified":"2018-04-10T21:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:13:32","slug":"tiang-disappointed-with-polling-date-of-ge14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21541","title":{"rendered":"Tiang; disappointed with polling date of GE14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Youth chief Michael Tiang, expressed his disappointment over the 14th general election polling date which falls on a\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Election commission had announced\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">April 28<\/a>\u00a0to be nomination day and polling\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on\u00a0May 9.<\/a>\u00a0There will\u00a0 be 11 days of campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang who is also a political secretary to the Chief Minister said he received a lot of text and calls from voters in Sibu who expressed their inablility to return for voting. as they worked outside Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>He added a number of Sibu people are working in Peninsula and Singapore. This is not serving the spirit of democracy well, he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21542\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21542\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21542\" alt=\"Michael Tiang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed7-261x300.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed7-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed7.jpg 891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tiang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Youth chief Michael Tiang, expressed his disappointment over the 14th general election polling date which falls on a\u00a0Wednesday. The Election commission had announced\u00a0April 28\u00a0to be nomination day and polling\u00a0on\u00a0May 9.\u00a0There will\u00a0 be 11 days of campaigning. Tiang who is also a political secretary to the Chief Minister said he received a lot of text and calls from voters in Sibu who expressed their inablility to return for voting. as they worked outside Sarawak. He added a number of Sibu people are working in Peninsula and Singapore. This is not<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21541\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21543,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions\/21543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}