{"id":9679,"date":"2022-01-22T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=9679"},"modified":"2022-01-22T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T12:22:23","slug":"snap-polls-necessary-for-strong-mandate-to-speed-up-development-mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2022\/01\/22\/snap-polls-necessary-for-strong-mandate-to-speed-up-development-mb\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap polls necessary for strong mandate to speed up development &#8211; MB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHOR BAHRU: The Johor State Legislative Assembly was dissolved today to enable the\u00a0government to get a fresh and strong mandate to intensify development in the state, said\u00a0Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Hasni Mohammad.<br \/>\nHe said snap polls were necessary for a strong government to be formed so that Johor could realise its full potential to be a developed state.<br \/>\n\u201cFor the state to develop rapidly, I need a fresh mandate from the people of Johor.\u00a0A strong government can help the state and people of Johor to become more developed based on Johor\u2019s\u00a0strategic position and potential.<br \/>\n&#8220;These matters\u00a0(programmes for people\u2019s interests) need to be continued, but I feel it is not appropriate for the government to be in a position where it can be said to be operating on the \u2018opposition\u2019s goodwill\u2019,\u201d he told reporters at the Johor UMNO building here today.<br \/>\n\u00a0The\u00a0Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, had earlier today consented to the dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly, paving the way for the state election.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHOR BAHRU: The Johor State Legislative Assembly was dissolved today to enable the\u00a0government to get a fresh and strong mandate to intensify development in the state, said\u00a0Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Hasni Mohammad. He said snap polls were necessary for a strong government to be formed so that Johor could realise its full potential to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679","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=9679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9679\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}