I am totally incensed. And I am not the only one.
The news that the defection of 3 Perak PKR assemblymen has resulted in BN recapturing the state is a new low for politics in Malaysia.
In the first place, it is morally wrong that we give our votes and mandate to a certain person and this person takes it as a trading card to better his own personal position. Party-hopping has no place in the democratic process. In the electoral process, the person who is running as an assemblyman stands on a certain platform if he belongs to a party. The electorate, who votes this assemblyman to be its voice in the state assembly, is also voting in the party.
I would ask the 3 assemblymen who defected whether they would have got any votes if they had run as independents.
Secondly, if the UMNO were to stoop so low as to be in collusion with the assemblymen, two of whom are under a cloud of corruption scandal, how could it ever hope to win the support of the majority of the Malays? Is it not short-sighted to focus on grabbing power in the state? What does it actually mean to the electorate who is bound to cry foul?
UMNO must have more respect for the decency of the Malay community and try to salvage whatever lingering trust the community might still have for the party. This is NOT the way to go. This is NOT the way that BN will win the hearts, minds and soul of the Rakyat. There is always the next election.
Suffice to say, in my humble opinion, UMNO and BN may have won the battle, but it has lost the war.
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A Daughter Of Malaya
I am a daughter of a piece of land formerly known as the Malayan Peninsular. Politics and a matter of convenience have divided this land into two. The island at the south is now a sovereign nation called Singapore and the peninsular is known as Malaysia.
I have lived in both countries for a considerable period of time and identify closely with both. My family is firmly rooted here, on both sides of the Causeway.
While the two countries have taken very different paths to growth and are governed with fundamentally different principles, the people of these two countries have more similarities than differences, if only they choose to acknowledge them.
This is the reason why both Singapore and Malaysia claim ownership to signature food items such as satay, char kuay teow and teh tarik. And this is the reason why the people of both countries speak the same lingo - Singlish or Manglish - call it what you like, but they are essentially the same, with the ubiquitous -la and -one and quirky ungrammatical sentence structures. Anyone outside these two countries will find it difficult to understand the lingo.
In this blog, I comment as an observer with a passion and deep interest to see both countries succeed. Or rather, to see the people of both countries succeed.
Majulah Singapura and Malaysia Boleh!
I have lived in both countries for a considerable period of time and identify closely with both. My family is firmly rooted here, on both sides of the Causeway.
While the two countries have taken very different paths to growth and are governed with fundamentally different principles, the people of these two countries have more similarities than differences, if only they choose to acknowledge them.
This is the reason why both Singapore and Malaysia claim ownership to signature food items such as satay, char kuay teow and teh tarik. And this is the reason why the people of both countries speak the same lingo - Singlish or Manglish - call it what you like, but they are essentially the same, with the ubiquitous -la and -one and quirky ungrammatical sentence structures. Anyone outside these two countries will find it difficult to understand the lingo.
In this blog, I comment as an observer with a passion and deep interest to see both countries succeed. Or rather, to see the people of both countries succeed.
Majulah Singapura and Malaysia Boleh!
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