Permatang Pauh By-Election: Advantage To The Needy

Looks like those in need are benefiting from this by election.

Money and groceries for votes
Beh Lih Yi | Aug 24, 08 10:08pm
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/88462
Allegations of vote-buying and electoral irregularities, including names missing from the electoral roll, intensified as the Permatang Pauh by-election campaign entered its final lap.

MCA
This afternoon, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Dr Ng Yen Yen openly handed out envelopes containing RM200 to 156 Chinese elderly at a function in Permatang Pauh.

Strangely, all of the beneficiaries were required to fill up a form, submit a photocopy of their identify card and had the thumb prints taken three times on a form.

...Ng - who is also MCA Wanita chief - denied the money she gave was a form of bribery. Neither was it a form of election goodies, she stressed.

She said the money was given out by the National Welfare Foundation, a government-linked non-profit organisation she heads...

MIC
Next to Ng's function was a MIC function which was attended by the party chief S Samy Vellu.

The former minister also doled out daily necessity items like rice, cooking oil, biscuit and pail to 75 single mothers. It was however not known how much these items cost....

PKR
The goodies also poured in from the opposition's camp. At a function in Penanti this afternoon, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail gave out financial aid to a group of single mothers.

...The money were given out under her capacity as the chairperson of the Aman Foundation.