{"id":8029,"date":"2021-11-19T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8029"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:40:11","slug":"bn-adopts-modern-politics-in-melaka-election-salleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/11\/19\/bn-adopts-modern-politics-in-melaka-election-salleh\/","title":{"rendered":"BN Adopts &#8220;Modern Politics&#8221; In Melaka Election &#8211; Salleh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak opined that politics should change and adapt to the times.<\/p>\n<p>He said this was necessary as voters need a change to the type of politics that suits the people.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the Melaka election as an example, Salleh said the people could see Barisan Nasional (BN) was bringing many changes that reflected modern politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politics should change and adapt to the times,\u201d he said in his latest Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>In this respect, the former Sabah Chief Minister said three basic steps need to be prioritised in moving to modern politics, namely \u201ceducate, guide and lead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201ceducate\u201d meant teaching voters about the party\u2019s character, values and motivation. He noted that communication and transparency affected public<br \/>\nperception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuide means we guide voters on our plans, whether short or long term. Basically, build confidence on why voters should choose us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLead means our act of leading our community at all times. A leader does not wait to be chosen; the leader leads regardless of the outcome.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak opined that politics should change and adapt to the times. He said this was necessary as voters need a change to the type of politics that suits the people. Citing the Melaka election as an example, Salleh said the people could see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}