Comments on: BN’s popular vote dips below 50% in Peninsula

By: Macguyver

Macguyver — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:41:36 +0000

All in All, Malaysian should be happy that Pak La is still the PM. Even if BN has lost badly this Elections, The BN leaders should be working together and do a detail on why they lost They should not blame Pak la for the failure but they and the coalition should be blame themself equally. This is a one party coalition where there are many party leaders in it. Its they who are the failure of the heavy lost. Pak La has a diplomatic way of handling things in the country. This why the country is stable and every one can sleep peacefully. The BN coalition Leaders must accept the lost and defeat and stop trying to blame Pak La for the losses. Its a collective blame. BN learders must learn the rules of the Party. They sail on ship / one party coalition and if the ship arrives to its port of orgin thru the rain and storm they will gain. If the ship has a leak ,all BN learders should work together and stop the ship from sinking. they should do some major thinking and find a solution and help the captain of the ship and stop the leak and the ship rom sinking. Not remove the captain. The captain has the experience to navigate the ship thru trouble waters.
BN lost badly this elections is because,:

1) Most of the BN leaders rude and stuck up
2) Corruption
3) High rate of crime
4) The BN leadears not doing their work on the ground
5) The welfare of the people of Malaysia are not taken off
6)No transparency on state politics decision
7)Greed of politcs and power
8)Road and Drainage problem
9)Floods history in Selangor, Pahang , Johor and Terengganu
10)Water supply problems
11) Electrical supply in Sabah
12) Looking after the goverment servants in Federal level and States level
13)listening to the voice of Malaysian people and deliver
14)BN Leader involved in unnecessary scandals
15)Better quality BN leaders and must deliver their promises
16)Raise the standard of Education in schools, sports and sutdent loans for upper educations
17)Raise the standard of University Education and Grades
18)Better economy for Malaysia

Malaysia a land of one nation of many nationality

Macguyver

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By: anilnetto

anilnetto — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:27:23 +0000

Just to clarify my aim in including the bit about Zakaria wasn’t to take a swipe at someone who has passed on but to remind other politicians that it is pointless to accumulate wealth which they cannot take along with them when their time is up. Instead they should serve the people and this will be remembered for a long, long time.

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By: Gerald Khor

Gerald Khor — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:29:41 +0000

Subject: Strong disappointment on DAP’s decision over Perak Menteri Besar

From: Gerald Khor
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 08:32 AM
To: dap.malaysia@pobox.com; khleee@pc.jaring.my; creditcard@dapmalaysia.org; jeffooi.screenshots@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Strong disappointment on DAP’s decision over Perak Menteri Besar

To my beloved DAP leaders,

Hope this message get to your CEC members as well.

Why you want to sour the already fragile relationship with PAS, at a time where you can work towards strengthening it? PAS has shown willingness to discuss Barisan Rakyat and we rakyat is happy to see the formation of Barisan Rakyat to realize the dream of 2-party system, as long as it carry a mandate of secular state for Malaysia.

And why such a flip-flop? Where is DAP’s integrity? DAP Perak pledged to abide by Sultan of Perak’s choice of Menteri Besar just a day earlier. Why DAP CEC rejects it? Why not discuss this among PAS, PKR and DAP? Why does it has to go public, and in such high profile? You guys are not better than Pak Lah nor BN in handling such situation.

Your report card is already tainted. Go mend the fence now and take corrective action immediately.

regards,
Gerald Khor

ps: Don’t know which email address to use thus use whatever email addresses I know to hope to get my message across.

—– Original Message —-
From: Gerald Khor
To: dap.malaysia@pobox.com
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:11:39 AM
Subject: Strong disappointment on DAP’s decision over Perak Menteri Besar

Dear YB Karpal Singh, YB Lim Kit Siang, YB Lim Guan Eng,

As a supporter of DAP that believe strongly in “Malaysian’s Malaysia “, I wish to express my strong disappointment on DAP’s decision to disapprove Perak Sultan’s selection of the next Menteri Besar (from a PAS representative). At the very least, please respect the choice made by Sultan Azlan Shah.

We just witness a new era in Malaysia politics after 8th March that gave so much hope to the people of this lovely nation. The loose pact between DAP, PAS and PKR scored big win in GE2008. Please keep up the good work and strengthen the pact. In fact, you guys should just formalize the pact and form Barisan Rakyat as suggested by many concerned Malaysians. Chinese voted for PAS and Malay voted for DAP on 8th March. I personally called my family members to make sure they vote no BN candidates. It is time that DAP seriously consider formalizing a pact with PAS and PKR. PAS seems to come a long way and is becoming more moderate. A pact should be made if PAS can drop their mandate to form an Islamic country.

Please don’t let this pact break away because of selection of Perak Menteri Besar. It is no doubt an important post but the next General Election will be even more important. The bigger task for DAP, PAS and PKR is to prove to the rakyat that you guys can be good government, starting with showing good results in Kedah, Kelantan, Penang, Perak and Selangor. It is a bad start to score an “E” for this fiasco. Furthermore PAS has given its words to work closely with the coalition government in Perak, and DAP has more seats and have been promised the most EXCO members. Give and take will go a long way for this young coalition.

I am a Chinese from Taiping and I have no problem seeing a PAS representative as Perak’s Menteri Besar, as long as there is no Islamic rules (as yet) like those in Kelantan. Given the Constitutional constraints and the state’s demographics, it is fair to have a Malay State Assemblyman to be appointed as Menteri Besar with a Chinese and Indian Naib Menteri Besar representing the other two major races.

The rakyat is still trying to grasp with the new scene in Malaysia politics. For me hailing from Perak, I know it is not easy for the Chinese in Perak to accept a PAS rep as Menteri Besar but we are ready to give him a chance to perform. People voted him (and his coalition government) in this time round. People can vote him out the next time. And we hope DAP will put national interest before party to give this man a chance to perform with his comrades in the Perak State Assembly as well.

If DAP cannot resolve this fiasco properly, all the manifestos and promises given pre-election will not be relevant anymore. Walk-the-talk. Integrity is everything. Otherwise DAP is no different from any BN component parties. And I will regret very much the thousands of dollar donation I made to DAP Malaysia in Jan and Feb 2008.

Thank you for your attention.

regards,
Gerald Khor

ps: http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/4246/1/ has a lot more feedback for your attention.

ps: Somehow http://dapmalaysia.org/newenglish/feedback.htm does not work properly thus a direct email.

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By: Alan Chen

Alan Chen — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:52:04 +0000

3/8/2008-An unprecedented win for opposition in 5 states as they expect to win in parliament, but not states. Selangor is crucial state to lay a ‘siege ‘ in Putrajaya.

3/8/2013-Pak Lah/Najib will hold election to enjoy their last days of being the government. Putrajaya will be the 112th seat to be won by BR, dooming BN into opposition.

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By: Chuang Tze

Chuang Tze — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:19:18 +0000

As they say, the good and righteous leave a legacy of love and prosperity for Eternity and the evil and self-centred leave their stinking names for 10,000 years and their children pay the price.

Death is the great Equalizer and the true worth of a person is what he has done and what he has left behind …

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By: mind your language

mind your language — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:39:36 +0000

I may agreed on many of the issues you have raised all this while but it really struck me when you made a swipe on Zakaria’s death. As a malaysian, I thought you could be more sensitive when comes to this kind of issues. Death, especially among Muslim should never be made into an issue. We must paid the utmost respect to the deceased and their families, not making a mockery of their demise. I hope you will take a serious note on this matter. There is really no need for that. GOD knows what is best for his servants. We should never judge on another person especially on the deceased, no matter what he/she had done during their lifetime..

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By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:34:37 +0000

Since we are on statistics, another one to note.
At 49.8%, we can say that the popular vote for peninsula is about even between BN and BR.
So, if we just count the number of seats contested in peninsula, it is 86 to BN and 80 to BR, which is less than 10% difference. This means this time round, the gerrymandering did not help BN and is quite fair for the first past the post election system. BN is boosted by the seats that came from Sabah and Sarawak which are all for BN save 2, I think.

Cheers.

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By: Malaysiaku

Malaysiaku — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:20:33 +0000

The swipe on Zakaria will serve as a reminder to other unscruplous people who would not hesitate to rob and bully can so easily get away —even in death. He will always be remembered for what he is. Francis is entitled to his opinion as others are with theirs.

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By: Abang Jo

Abang Jo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:16:02 +0000

Great analysis.

The timing of Zakaria’s demise should serve as a reminder to all the corrupt politicians that God is fair. At the end of it all, we’re still answerable to the divine one…. …

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By: Sean E

Sean E — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:46:16 +0000

Now that the opposition parties have won control of 5 state government and deny BN two third majority in the parliament, do the next stage by petition for a Royal Commission on Electoral Reform (RCER) in Malaysia.

If you want to have a better future for our children in Malaysia, do you bit by signing the on-line petition at http://bersih.org.

Why do we need to reform the Election Commission?

1) the discrepancy between number of voters in urban and rural seats is too great. The smallest parliamentary seat (Federal Territory, Putrajaya) has only 6,608 voters while the parliamentary seat for Kapar in Selangor has 112,224 voters. What this means is that one vote in the Putrajaya parliamentary constituency is equivalent to 17 votes in the Kapar constituency.

2) A common tactic is to ‘buy’ the identity card of the voters. Party members will then vote on the voters’ behalf. Random checking of a person’s identity must be conducted using those finger print checking device. Any voting done on another person’s identity must be made a serious offence under the election law.

3) The rules on postal voting must be reviewed, tightened and amended. The current rule favours the ruling party as the armed forces personnel and policemen who vote by ‘postal voting’ would obviously not jeopardize their career or promotion prospect by voting for the opposition.

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