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1. What do you think will be the most important issue that the new government must address
Most pertinent are the issues of corruption and inefficiency in the administrative system. these have been entrenched for decades and are not easy to be uprooted. The new government will have to find ways how to establish a truly functioning administrative system.
2. What do you think is Barisan Nasional’s greatest strength?
The BN will bank on its incumbent status as ruling government. This means an easy access to state resources. furthermore, most of the rural voters remain loyal to BN. It is not easy to break this loyalty as the BN has cultivated the culture of dependency among the rural people through the award of subsidies and promotion of politics of development.
3. What do you think is Barisan Nasional’s greatest weakness?
Complacency, complacency and complacency
4. What do you think is Pakatan Rakyat’s greatest strength?
The emergence of progressive young leaders who are unafraid to speak the truth to power and PR’s multiracial appeal.
5. What do you think is Pakatan Rakyat’s greatest weakness?
Not all of the leaders in PR are serious in bringing about change. some are using PR for their political survival. In Sabah, for instance, old leaders emerge from the wilderness to join PR on the pretext of change but they offer no new ideas except lobbying to contest.
6. What is your hope for Malaysia?
A progressive and developed Malaysia led by a government that is truly accountable to the people.
Arnold Puyok is a political science lecturer at University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sabah.
New Mandala is asking Malaysians and Malaysianists worldwide their views on the two coalitions vying for power at the 13th general election in Malaysia. Their responses are published unedited.
BN’s election fraud:
In the 12th GE 2008, Pakatan Rakyat won Selangor, since 2008, the Selangor electoral rolls have ballooned by 22% (over 340,000 voters) to more than 1.9 million, compared to a national average of 16.3 %.
Up to 90 % cent of ballots cast through postal votes support BN!
31,294 voters have been transferred out of their 2008 state & parliamentary constituencies without their consent, the incumbent CM of Selangor too.
42,000 voters whose citizenship cannot be verified by the National Registration Dept still on the roll.
The electoral rolls carry 65,543 voters who are 85 yrs of age and older; and 1000 voters aged more than 100 yrs.
15,855 voters on the roll have NRIC numbers showing they are of a different gender from that listed by the EC.
4500 voters who are spouses of police officers are registered as postal voters in breach of the law.
Over 400,000 dubious voters are on the electoral roll, enough to swing 35 federal seats either way to capture Putrajaya!
Gerrymandering in 55 yrs enables BN to win 51% of the seats in parliament with just 15.4% of the popular votes cast. Up to 1 million Malaysians residing overseas denied their right to vote by the EC.
No scrutiny – Malaysia has refused access to int’l election watch groups after the 1990 general election!
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