{"id":1656,"date":"2018-04-11T16:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everydayonsales.com\/news\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T08:18:33","slug":"pmo-announces-may-9-as-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everydayonsales.com\/news\/pmo-announces-may-9-as-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"PMO announces May 9 as public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many were left frustrated with the date set by our government for the GE14\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydayonsales.com\/news\/its-official-ge14-will-be-on-9th-may-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polling date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everydayonsales.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday.jpg\" alt=\"9 May Public Holiday\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday.jpg 1600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-300x200.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-768x512.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Good News is that\u00a0PMO announces May 9 as public holiday<\/h4>\n<p>Now there is no more excuses for people not to come out and vote.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PMO statement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2018\/04\/11\/pmo-announces-additional-public-holiday-on-may-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Star<\/a>), the public holiday is to allow Malaysians to fulfil their obligations as voters. It said the public holiday is announced according to Section 8 of the Holidays Act 1951 for peninsular Malaysia as well as the Federal Territory of Labuan.<\/p>\n<p>Sabah and Sarawak state governments will announce the May 9 public holiday as prescribed by their respective Holidays Ordinance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.everydayonsales.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1.png\" alt=\"9 May Public Holiday\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1.png 1230w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1-300x223.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1-768x572.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/04\/9-May-Public-Holiday-1-1024x763.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes in the wake of widespread criticism over the Election Commission&#8217;s decision to fix the polling date on a work day, May 9 (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Guess the government really hear our grunts and making those right moves.<\/p>\n<p>So boys and girls &#8230; time to balik and UNDI!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many were left frustrated with the date set by our government for the GE14\u00a0polling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[249,276],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ge14","tag-polling-day"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PMO announces May 9 as public holiday - EverydayOnSales.com News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many were left frustrated with the date set by our government for the GE14\u00a0polling date. 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