School notices point to June polls
By Yow Hong Chieh, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — Government notices regimenting school exam may suggest June or July snap polls, depending on the Sarawak state election outcome, Sin Chew Daily has reported.
The Chinese-language daily said today some Negeri Sembilan schools have received notices asking internal exams to be concluded by May and school halls should not be leased out from June onwards.
A Selangor Chinese primary school principal told the paper such notices are usually sent by the government one or two months before general elections although the letters never explicitly mention it as the reason.
“But these kinds of notices can be an indicator of elections and it’s usually quite accurate,” said the principal, who declined to be named.
According to Sin Chew Daily, only a small number of schools have received notices so far and that the timing of the next general election will likely depend on how well Barisan Nasional (BN) does in the Sarawak polls.
