YeinJee's Malaysian Voices » Jeyakumar Devaraj http://yeinjee.com/malaysia Malaysian social political blog with discussions on public safety, education, economics, government, corruption and human rights issues. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:11:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Green light for Parti Sosialis Malaysia http://yeinjee.com/malaysia/2008/green-light-for-parti-sosialis-malaysia/ http://yeinjee.com/malaysia/2008/green-light-for-parti-sosialis-malaysia/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:34:20 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/malaysia/?p=328 Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) has finally obtained approval from the Home Ministry to register as a political party after a 10-year battle that included a protracted law suit against the government. [Malaysiakini]

PSM has received a letter this morning from the ministry requesting the party to submit a fresh application, in which according to PSM’s secretary general S Arutchelvan, is just a matter of formality.

The court hearing which was scheduled this morning has been postponed following this latest development.

Jeyakumar Devaraj is the only Member of Parliament from PSM with his famous victory against MIC president Samy Vellu; PSM chairman Nasir Hashim is their only state assemblyman (Selangor). Both of them competed under PKR’s flagship during the March election.

It’s still uncertain if PSM would join the Pakatan Rakyat pact; S Arutchelvan has mentioned in an April interview that PSM will not join PR until they have seen their full program… which probably means that PSM will not be joining the pact yet in near future.

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