The dust has settles but kiambang has not yet
bertaut! The 2013 election results had shown the geographical and socio economic (as tweeted by Karim Raslan) are dominant factors and not the
racial tsunami as the ruling party leader claimed. It’s between the urban and
rural but to translate the vote from urban as Chinese votes are quite misleading.
The opposition is crying over fraud but this will not affect the election
results as the magnitude of the fraud is difficult to prove. The common
knowledge is that fraud might exist in the major cities and the hot-spots.
Anyhow these areas are mostly won by the opposition
and any revisit will not assist them at
all. However one must be wary in the next election because both parties will be hunting for voters from
China or India if the situation is not curbed!
The fact is that the opposition seats had improved and obtained the popular votes for the first time
and more can be expected in the next election if the ruling party rest on its
laurels. One can easily predict before the 2013 election as which party is going to win. Since
Sabah and Sarawak has a strong
coalitions with the ruling party ,no way the opposition can win. The Opposition knew this as they have failed to get a strong
coalition. Although they have made inroads in the fixed deposit area like Johor
but that was not sufficient.
Let’s not put the
blame on the races but study on why these things happened. If we look back in
2004 Barisan Nasional won with a thumping majority. This happened
because the Chinese rally behind the supposed
to be a clean government under a Mr. Clean.
However those in the ruling party had
failed to perform and supposed to be a clean government is not that
clean. The MCA which represent the Chinese were a disgrace then as the ‘fat towkays’ had not fulfilled their promises but
embroiled in the billion dollars PKFZ fiasco. The urban Malays also were not
happy as cronyism and corruption were
quite rampant coupled with high cost of livings. The opposition saw the sign of
unhappiness and did their homework well
and had resulted in ‘tsunami’ in the
2008 election. The wake up call had not
been answered and this pattern continued in 2013. This pattern will stay and if the
opposition manage to break the Sabah and Sarawak fixed deposits one will see a new government in the next
election!
One must study the needs of both the urban and rural folks very
well. The ruling party has failed to satisfy the urban needs meanwhile the
opposition had not done much to the rural people. What the urban people needs
are basically good governance, no corruption and cronyism, fair chance in
education and businesses, good infrastructure and
less crime.
Finally, stop being racist if we want Malaysia to become
prosper and equal status like Singapore or Korea. One must understand that our
forefathers had agreed to let the Chinese and Indian be granted citizenships in
order to gain Merdeka. We have to accept and live with them. Constant bickering does not augur well as the Malays and Chinese
have intermarriages and business partners as well. The Chinese businessman do employ a lot of Malays and uncalled statement
by the top leaders will sour up good relationship. The dominance of the Chinese
in the city has to do with historical factors. The earlier leadership had the
chance to flood the Malays to major towns but they choose to send them to the jungle to open new lands and they remain a poor community until today.
Sometimes truth hurts but to blame when
the going is not right really not a right thing to do. We look forward to a
better Malaysia.
Ir.GHAZALI IBRAHIM
The article is the writer’s opinion and has no malicious
intent whatsoever.
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