Well, the 13th GE has just concluded. It has been an interesting election and as I predicted, no one party is going to get 2/3 majority in Parliament. It is one of the worst performance by the ruling regime. Winning only 86 seats compared to Pakatan’s 80 seats in Peninsular is a big shame to PM Najib. If not because of Sabah and Sarawak, he would have lost. He is running the government with simple majority and only gaining 46% of the popular votes! It affected him so badly to the extent that he had to bring up racial issues to back his reasons for the lost. Frankly, Najib was definitely a better leader than Pak Lah but he underestimated the intelligence of the Malaysian population. He thought that throwing money, running some fancy slogans and advertising all over the place with his 1 this and that could get him votes but he failed. People are not interested in money and slogans anymore as they know that it is a political stunt. Giving help to the people is the responsibility of all ruling government. BUT, he never addressed the real issues that people wanted him to address.
People were more interested on how he wants to tackle corruption, cronyism, rising cost of living and economy. He did well in the economic part but failed to address the first 3 issues. A clear corruption involving a CM was not acted upon. In fact he even diverted the question when was asked by the AlJazeera interview. He needed the state’s seats so badly that he failed to act against the CM. Throwing some BRIM, KRIM etc is not going to solve the “rising” cost of living issue. His manifesto was a copycat of Pakatan’s. He refused a debate with Anwar but attacked him from the back by using all the media. That was uncalled for and moved a lot of fence sitters to support the opposition. The media was misused to the maximum to the extent that I wanted to vomit every time I accidentally on the TV or MSM newspaper!
Racial issues were played right from the beginning. Mind you, it was NOT the opposition who played the racial issues. They moved as 1 solid block with no racial or religious issues. It was MCA and UMNO who were playing the issues. BUT, now they blame the Chinese for supporting the opposition. This is a democratic country and every citizen has the right to vote for anyone. Secondly, the real analysis clearly shows that it was NOT a Chinese Tsunami which our PM prematurely said. It was more of an Urban-Rural divide and a class divide. There were Malays who won in Chinese majority area and vice versa. In fact, this scenario worries the ruling government as it spells the end of race based politics. That is what they are worried about. The Chinese only constitutes 3.3 million voters but Pakatan received 5.6 million votes. Even if 3/4 of Chinese voted for opposition, where did the balance of 3.1 million votes came from ? How can Pakatan get 51% of the votes without the support of the Malays?
We should move forward and not backward. Race based politics should end and we should move on as Malaysians. So, it looks like the entire 1Malaysia slogan by PM is just a political gimmick! He expects the non-Malays to vote for him after endorsing Zulkifli Nordin and Ibrahim Ali to contest under UMNO (was it Chinese who voted them out?)! What saddens me the most is the fact that there are many so-called “educated” people who believe in these type of racial issues and numerous conspiracy theories of “so and so” wants to take over the country etc etc. They rather vote for a corrupted leader just for the sake of “demi bangsa, agama dan negara” ! Why is it that only UMNO can protect the Malay rights? Why not PAS or PKR ? These are also Malay majority parties. I still don’t understand how a population of 25% and a so-called racist party(DAP) which is contesting only 51 seats ( NOT all Chinese, BTW) can rule the country where the police, army and civil service is almost 98% Malays! To change the constitution, you need 2/3 majority! Another conspiracy theory is Christianisation of Malaysia !! Malaysian Christian population is only 9% and they are supposed to convert 60% of the population!! Are you saying that your faith is so weak? Please think logically. If you want to believe in conspiracy theories, it will never end!
I don’t blame these people as they have been brainwashed by the ruling government right from younger days. Dr M created Biro Tatanegara for this purpose and it seems to have worked very well. However, I salute the many younger people and urbanites for voting against corruption, cronyism and racism. I also salute Penangites and Selangorians ( of ALL races) who, despite all the money and negative adverts thrown at them, voted for a proven clean and good governance. No religion teaches you to condone racism but yet there are people who claim they are Muslims but full of racism within them. This includes some who I thought were my friends. It saddens me but atleast I know their true colours, now.
It is unbecoming of a PM to issue a statement like “Chinese Tsunami” on international TV and condoning Utusan’s racial headline. To my friends who support racism, I am sorry than I may have to unfriend you in FB. And for those who claim that certain party will sell Malaysia to neighbouring country, please see who is buying all the land and high-end properties in Johor ?
With the election over, I will go back to my writing on medical issues………………..
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Nicely written. You might be interested in this: http://www.happydurian.com.
Well said sir..
all of your posts has never failed to amazed me with all of the issues being discussed upon.. i have been a silent follower of your blog and visit regularly to read new updates.. i agree to each and every point u brought out in this post.. so sad to see those so-called ‘educated’ people failing to realize this. Truth is, by my opinion is that they are afraid of ‘change’ being living in their own comfort zone not willing to take any risks… anyhow, lets see what the future holds for the next 5 years..
until then, its up to the rakyat to decide again..
it has been a pleasure following your blog… keep on writing sir!
God Bless!
Thank you
Sir,
The above analysis as per above link http://www.happydurian.com. is absolutely irrefutable. The urbanites are better informed through the alternative media, namely the internet but the rural folks depend on MSM.
The urbanites regard the various BR1Ms as political corruption, the rural folks regard it as a life savor.
It has nothing to do with race.
PR will have to think of a way to provide internet service to the rural folks. Besides that, the older folks are a diminishing %, so in the next 5 yrs, the political results has a better chance in PR’s favor. Let us not give up hope for a two-party system.
i think the next step is to reach out to the disenfranchised in msia, mostly those in the rural areas. if you think abt it despite all the hanky panky tricks pulled out by the govt, the fact that opp still won in the popular vote already proves that there already is a shift in mindset and a clear demand from the people for change. the only thing left to do is to defeat the system bn has designed to protect its own interests. i’m wondering if doctors could have a role to play in that regard. did an attachment in swak before and met quite a few docs who are quite politically active or driven. there are doctors who are posted to rural areas or sometimes venture there and a lot of them are aware of how the people from rural areas are exploited. also learnt abt some of the doctors who did participate in the elections and won eg. dr jeyakumar. are there many docs who do venture into politics or participate actively as a part of civil society? are there any obstacles for docs who do engage in politics in terms of govt practice? would it be unethical to discuss politics with patients in the hospital setting? i find your statement about generic drugs interesting. could anything have been done abt it? thanks!
If you are a government servant, you can’t be active in any political party without the permission of the ministry. However, you can become an ordinary member of any party. Yes, there has been many doctors who have ventured into politics, including Dr M!
I strongly believe in Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote…YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME, AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, BUT YOU CANNOT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.”
Very intelligent, impartial, and prudent comment. Malaysia should thank You.
Go Dr Go!!!!!! keep on writing..
Dr P, thanks for all your good writing and I’m also one of your silent follower of all your articles. As a 50’s + simple layman, I just want to add some of my thought. As for corruption and cronyism, these might not be the fundamental factor that caused swaying of the votes to the opposition. Corruption and cronyism could also happen to any other party in power. I just want to tell my life time story under the BN ruling all this years and this will sum up all the main factors. I’m from Kedah and my family is quite poor. As such, during my Form 5, I gave up all my sports including athletic which I represented my states in MSSM, to concentrate in my MCE. I got Grade A cert in my MCE but yet couldn’t get a place to study Form 6 in public school, due to BN’s racist policy. Then my father send me to TAR college to study Form 6. With my parent’s meagre income, I’ve to eat bread with plain water for breakfast, then economy rice (cost RM1.20 in 1978) for lunch and dinner, so that I’ve balance money to pay for the costly tuition fees. Then I passed my HSC with full cert and 5 full principal including strong credit in General Paper but yet I was rejected in my application for a place in the local university.So I continue for the Diploma in Accountancy at TAR college. At first, I thought TAR college (under MCA) being the BN’s strong alliance in gaining substantial votes in each election will soon get its accountancy diploma recognise by the government. But to my great dismay, the Diploma in TAR college was only recognised 2 years ago, after I’ve voted for BN all these 30 years, and I’m already in my 50’s. Now all my children are studying in private colleges only despite scoring straight A’s in their SPM. I’ve to dig out all my retirement EPF money for their studies. One of my children recently scored 10 A’s (i.e. 7A+, 3A) but was just rejected in his application for Matrikulasi. He was among the top three student in his school of 500+ pupil. Again, I’ve to dig my dwindling retirement money for him to study A level in a private college b’cos I don’t trust the Form 6 again, especially the STPM (racist exam). The rest of his schoolmates (non bumi only) all (almost 100%) have to say bye-bye, drop out of school, or continue to study at a private colleges (if their parent got some saving). Not many left would dare to take the STPM “racist exam” b’cos you won’t get a place in public university even with good result for this toughest exam in Malaysia. By the way, I still just voted for BN in this PRU13 out of loyalty and also b’cos I’m a bit worried the opposition might cancel the PTPTN loan. Then I’ve no source of finance for my children to apply for a study loan. Sorry everyone who’ve to bear reading my long truth story of a Malaysian under BN’s racist regime.
Propose Solution: Build more public universities for “all races” instead of wasting millions and billions in mega corrupted project.
I sympathise with you, yet another one of so many people who suffered silently under policies of the BN government.
But I cannot help but see the irony of all this; after all the suffering and hardship you have gone through, your loyalty and vote for BN is now rewarded with accusations that you have been ungrateful to the BN government!
Yes, I had written about this injustice many times in this blog when I spoke about education opportunities.
However, I think you got the wrong massage about PTPTN abolition by Anwar. PTPTN will be abolished and ALL Malaysian will be able to study anywhere within Malaysia under minimal fee. It does not mean that you will have to pay for your education! They promised free education for all and thus you don’t need to take any loan etc.
That was a well-written article, Dr Pagalavan. In fact, I would add that this is definitely NOT “Chinese tsunami”. Yes, it is an urban tsunami. But to be exact, it is an information age tsunami. Well-informed citizen have more propensity to vote for the opposition.
It is very sickening that my 46 year old KL ex-classmates still live in fantasy land that they proclaimed never met with any CIMB on 5/5. No blackout but made out stories, news are not trustable but the mainstream media. Educated people in moron mindset. Well done!
Do you mean the only trustworthy news comes from the mainstream media?
You have to educate yourself in the election and counting votes process. Blackout and adding extra ballot boxes definitely a lie or propaganda. If you undersatnd the voting process, this can never happen easily. The number of votes, saluran all already made known tom both agents of candidate BEFORE even the counting starts at respective polling station. Ballot box NEVER leave polling station and votes were counted in situ. No way extra ballot boxes can be brought in like that unless the candidate PACAMA never do their job properly. Final votes was counted by adding all the numbers of all Form 14 which were all verified by all agents. The main problem is the eletoral roll with phantom voters plus the gerrymanderring. PR lost mainly due to gerrymanderring NOT the blackout / extra ballot boxes or even the bangla. The bangla I think is a red herring. How many bangla can they add? One bus = 60 votes, even 10 buses only 600 votes. With record high voting rate, this is unlikely to change the outcome. The real problem is NRD which issue the IC. At the point of EC view, these are all valid votes, you can challenge them in court you will never win. Unless you challege the NRD which PR have to do long time before election. The gerrymanderring system is ‘unfair’ to PR but if you want to participate in election you have to play by the rules.
Our mainstream media can hardly make a distinction between license and freedom. Systems work in civilization countries but not developing country like us.
My friend who was experiencing blackout in Bentong took him more than 15 hours to reach Malaysia to vote. The world class Lynas is there through tyrannicalness, thus there is no point to blame the volunteers for not doing a good job. Even, my 82 year old savvy TOK knew how the legalized CIMB dilute our fringes n benefits.
PR need not to responsible for that but all of us. Muhhibha not utopia!
Phewww….General Election is way over and Pakatan dudes still babbling about BN that…BN this…what if Pakatan wins….bla bla bla. Dude…you lost.Get over it poor little babies. Till then, enjoy the spirit of 1Malaysia…for errr…next 5 years!
Ain’t such a perfect kingdom except the Kingdom Of Heaven…thus live with it. I certainly enjoy my life under current leadership. Works well for me~
PR – Lain Kalilah~
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MACAI DETECTED!!!!……..
LoL…pretty lame man. typical PR folks. Woosy~
Savant Syndrome at its best~
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Haha, who said PR lost?? They received 52% of the votes. The looser is BN and running an illegitimate government
Ya on paper based on popular votes, PR didn’t lose BUT Malaysia don;t practive direct voting system. Like UK we practice ‘first pass the post’ system. You can say this sytem is not fair but it has been used since independence. PR lost is due to this unfair system and greymandering of the consituency but they still have to follow the election rules. If PR challenge the result in court based on popular vote %, they will never win. PR have no choice but to increase their popular votes % to at least 55% in order to go to Putrajaya. Reelection is a double edge sword.
Are you going to do reelection on all or just seats which PR lost? What happen if the second round BN won even more presume they bribe more , they play dirtier or the Malay just get more defensive? Is PR going to accept defeat again in reelection with the possibility of losing Selangor or even Penang? What PR must do is to list out in detail of the fraud. Currently the allegation is so vague, everything is just hearsay. FB have become a propaganda tool. We support PR but not blindly. You want to win election, you play by the rules. Currently the rules are in BN favour so change the rules first.
Courtesy of the Commonwealth~
Question : How do we change the existent rules ?
No choice by wining even more popular votes. PR have to work harder go into rural areas not just urban areas. You would notice from the election result. PR won in places with better access of transportation and in areas with higher internet spped and availablity of wifi and 3G. With no one getting the 2/3 majority the rules cannot be changed easily.
Whoa??what’s this? High School or something…most popular wins? Sadly, that ain’t happen. Too bad..Tough Luck~
Loser? (correct spelling btw) and illegitimate government? Obama congratulated Najib’s Victory. I don’t know bout you guys, but hey..when the World Police said BN’s government is legitimate, it is undisputed. phewww….
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Haha, majority votes wins. That’s the fact!! You can claim whatever you want but you are running a government which only received 46% of the votes!!
As much as I want to agree with you but the fact is majority votes NOT necessary means a win.
This is democracy under First-Past-The-Post system:
UK 2010 Election, Conservative Party got 36% votes but won 47% of the seats.
Labour Party got 29% votes but 40% seats.
Liberal Democrats got 23% votes but only 9% seats.
Independent managed 12% votes but 4% seats.
Do we want an alternative system, the british say NO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011) Maybe we can have a referandum for Malaysia as well.
Under existing Malaysian law, the win is TOTALLY LEGAL. What we should do? Be emotional and have revolution? Putting pressure on EC? Without federal power, difficult for PR to change the rules. Of course rakyat can put pressure on BN to change but remember BN also got ‘46% supporters’. PR need to do more to gain rural support, the effectiveness of each rural vote is more than urban votes. East Malaysia got about 10% of votes but they contribute 25% of MPs, not fair! but we have to accept this. This is why Taib cannot be touched, he delivers no matter how corrupted he is. If Najib trying to take action on Taib, Taib may turn enbloc to Anwar and do you think Anwar will refuse taib?Would PR voters accept frogs from East malaysia for PR to take Putrajaya? This is politics, sometime to get power, principle is not important.
Yes, I totally agree with you. Gerrymandering is everywhere. That’s What politics is all about. What I am saying is that there nothing to be proud of for BN
This is the link to the official White House website and their statement about the elections:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/08/statement-press-secretary-malaysia-s-elections
“We also congratulate the people of Malaysia, who turned out in record numbers to cast their votes, as well as the parties of the opposition coalition on their campaigns, as a vibrant opposition is a foundation of democracy. We note concerns regarding reported irregularities in the conduct of the election, and believe it is important that Malaysian authorities address concerns that have been raised. We look forward to the outcome of their investigations.”
You won’t see that quote in the BN-controlled media.
U duno anything son. PR did not lose. U failed math.
The majority is getting smaller and smaller for the ruling government.
I wonder if this would lead to a hung parliament.. hmm….
I’m on the middle ground, though I do not like rethorical-based or racial-based parties such as PAS or UMNO/MIC/DAP/MCA, but still, hmm…
Politics are a lot more complicated than I thought it would be, especially chanted in those social media networks by those who haven’t even elligible enough to to vote.
I guess I’l be on the middle ground and shift gradually as time goes by. Now is it as if choosing between coke or pepsi! And both have equal support!
Ha! Ha! The 1st step is to learn human rights, then only civil rights then only talk about democracy … No wonder psychics and philosophy never taught well !! All jr.
I wouldn’t want any teaching about psychics …..
The Murphy law ..
Wat the heck is with your name “pagalavan jr” ?
Who do you seriously think you are?
Why do people do this?
No doubt I have to agree Pakatan lost and in our system there is nothing completely illegal about it. However, people like you are just keyboard warriors.
Sit behind desk, whack people like Dr Paga. Show some respect man. Dr Paga has been educating Malaysian doctors for years.
You want to post a wise ass comment under a pseudonym? Fine. But using ‘Pagalavan Jr’ on Dr Pagalavan’s website makes you sound like you were dropped on your head as a baby.
Hi Dr Pagavalan,
What do you think about our new Health Minister- Dr S. Subramaniam?
Is he any good? Can he bring good changes in the Healthcare in Malaysia?
Just want to know your opinion about him.
Thanks.
I am not sure but he is a Physician(dermatologist). Probably the best person in BN to head the MOH.
I remember him as the worst human resource minister who screwed up that department. remember how Pak Lah (ex-pm) who has to help him solve the NUBE problem? how msian end up with no indonesian maid and also the minimum wage fiasco. .
Let’s us hope a Doctor would do a doctor’s job well!
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/231256