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The final video in New Mandala‘s coverage of Malaysia’s 13th General Election sees Ross Tapsell and Greg Lopez discussing the result and their ideas about the future of the country’s politics. It is a wonderful way to round off our coverage. Of course, over the days ahead there will be many further opportunities to reflect on the issues raised by the election and its aftermath.
Democracy and victory have lost their true meaning in Malaysia.
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This is not a real representation of the situtation. The night saw magic votes that appeared out of nowhere to reinforce area where BN lost. The SPR under the control of the BN delay the announcement of winners and waited for reinforcement votes to come in escorted by police. There has not been power outages for a long time and yesterday there were outages and everytime the power came by there are more votes for BN that were not counted. The banglas brought in may not be to vote but to redo the votes as they were in the polling stations that were shut down, some earlier than the official time. During the time that they were inside, there were police guarding outside the stations. Reports of votes discarded have been lodged and votes that comes out of the ballot boxes is more than what was recorded in the boxes. How can this be true? The international community must know this as there is no such thing as garnering the popular votes and losing more seats. What nonsense is he talking about? There is widespread evidence of votes buying and by the way the BN spend for the election, they are clearly spending beyond the amount allowed by the Election Commission. Democracy is dead in Malaysia!
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since Malaysia practises first past the post system since they inherited the british form of governance, i doubt the ruling politicians even understand the concept of popular votes
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Even though Barisan Nasional won the election, it did not win the heart of the people in Malaysia, this can be seen as they got fewer popular votes than the opposition party. The only factor that drove its victory is just its rural-biased division of the political territories (of each parliamentary seat). As the results show, most of the urban-dwellers (esp. in the most economically important states – Selangor and Penang) voted for the opposition party. This clearly showed the dissatisfaction of people in the nation towards the current-ruling party. If BN does not reconsider its policies, and also if they do not play any dirty political tricks, the next election will be its grave.
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Mr. Greg Lopez, a good summing up and thank you for r eminding Malaysians that the way ahead is FORWARD. The opposition has done a very good job of opening the eyes of the common Malaysian into the corrupt practices of the UMNO and BN. The Malaysian who distrusted the Internet and had acess only to RTm, after all that has happened and from listening to those who have NOT been limited by these fetters, will now start to distrust anymore BN bullshit. Malaysians have come forward thanks to those brave enough to act quietly and peacefilly WITHIN the system to bring light upon the dark actions of the BN. Rakyat Malaysia, it is time to move on, and do this with your newfound knowledge. Knowledge is power. Applied correctly it is wisdom.
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I hope and pray people like you open your eyes to the infighting and lack of agreement among the opposition coalition and see whether this is really the change you want or do want change just for change sake? Selangor which is the richest state and is now under opposition, has yet to declare who will be the Chief Minister . Whereas BN’s Chief Ministers have already been sworn in and started working.
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“grandma, why are your ears so long”?
The better to hear you with!
“grandma, why are your teeth so sharp”?
The better to eat you with!
“BN CM, why are you so quickly sworn in”?
The quicker to get to the cookie jar with!
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BN had it`s own share of infighting. Najib was continuously showing up MCA`s Dr Soi Lek, not to mention the coup he pulled to topple Badawi, who was notorious for letting his son in law Khairy Jamaluddin have a free rein.
BN started working? Indeed. They were working hard in the lead up to the elections with phantom voters and “indelible” ink, not to mention double voting, vote disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering.
Change for change`s sake? I for one would prefer it immensely to the abuse of power on BN`s part.
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I dont think first past the post electroal system is feasible – espeialy when being abused in delineation of constituencies….but too bad we have inherited that…if only we practise popular votes ….then we would already have a new government by now 🙁
i wonder who invnted this system – it is absurd given that popular votes would have corresponded to the age old adage of minority being subordinated to the majority….
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