{"id":121025,"date":"2018-04-19T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=121025"},"modified":"2018-04-23T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:06:32","slug":"exercise-your-rights-to-vote-wisely-in-14th-ge-src-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=121025","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Exercise your rights to vote wisely in 14th GE&#8221;- SRC President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Atiqah Ismail<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GOMBAK, 19 April 2018: All IIUM students who are eligible voters have been advised to participate actively and vote wisely in the nation&#8217;s upcoming\u00c2\u00a014th General Election scheduled on 9 May.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The President of Students Representative Council (SRC), Amir Ridwan Idris, told IIUMToday\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that the younger generation of voters studying in the university should play a more proactive and optimistic role to decide the future of the nation.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said, \u0153The youth should use their\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">knowledge wisely to evaluate the policies and promises made by the political parties and candidates contesting in the general election.\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0153I hope youngsters will exercise their democratic rights to vote as we are an important group of people to determine the future destiny of our country.\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0153This is the right time for us to participate in a decision making process in a matured way,\u009d he stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, the SRC discussed with the university authority for students to be given extra holidays on 8 and 10 May to allow them to go back to their home towns to cast their votes and their request has been approved by the Rector, Prof. Dato&#8217; Sri Dr. Zaleha Kamarudin.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u0153I really hope all IIUM students who are eligible voters will utilise this holiday to exercise their duty as voters and good citizens,&#8221; Amir said<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The extra holidays involved students in all the three IIUM campuses in Gombak, Pagoh and Kuantan.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has already declared 9 May a public holiday in the country to allow voters to cast their votes during the election. ***<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Atiqah Ismail GOMBAK, 19 April 2018: All IIUM students who are eligible voters have been advised to participate actively and vote wisely in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121025"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121214,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121025\/revisions\/121214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}