WORLD-CLASS PARLIAMENT

In the General Elections 2008, Pakatan Rakyat (coalition of PKR, DAP and PAS) won 82 (31, 28 and 23) seats to deny BN's two-thirds majority in Parliament. BN only won 140 seats out of 222 parliamentary seats. BN candidates who were defeated by PR include Acting President of Gerakan Dr Koh Tsu Koon, MCA Vice President Donald Lim, MCA Wanita Deputy Chair Chew Mei Fun, MIC president S. Samy Vellu as well as PPP President M. Kayveas. PR also won key parliamentary constituencies located in the capital cities of several states such as Klang (Charles Santiago) Petaling Jaya Utara (Tony Pua Kiam Wee), Lembah Pantai (Nurul Izzah), Bandar Tun Razak (Khalid Ibrahim).

The first parliamentary meeting shocked all the Malaysians when words like 'Bigfoot' and 'Big Monkey' came out from the respective YBs while arguing with each other. As representatives of the poeple, they should be able to control and abstain themselves from committing sins with their mouths, for example, MP from Kinabatangan (BN- Bung Mokthar) and Pasir Mas (IND- Ibrahim Ali) should not insult MP from Bukit Gelugor (DAP- Karpal Singh) by ordering him to stand up and talk. And even after they were found guilty by doing so, they refused to apologize for their misbehave in the Parliament. If any of you could still remember, there are some NGOs who represent the disabled had made request to these MPs with the hope that they could admit their fault and promise not to offend the disabled again. However, their attitude were so bad that especially MP from Pasir Mas even shouted to them, saying that he will never apologize for he did nothing wrong. He even claimed that he did not know that MP from Bukit Gelugor could not stand when he made the statement that 'Yang Berhormat dari Bukit Gelugor telah melanggar peraturan mesyuarat kerana tidak berdiri semasa bercakap'. If you have watched the Parliament on the first day, you can see he even laughed after he stated this.

Obviously, these people did not receive any warning or punishment, even the opposition MPs have been appealing for many times. Their request did not get any clear respond from the fair and just Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin from BN government. This matter should be taken into further consideration and immediate action should also be taken against these MPs so that they would learn how to behave themselves well while serving the people. Otherwise, they will remain like naughty kids who know nothing but create troubles and problems.

That is the voice of the people.

THE NEW STATES

After this political tsunami, many things have changed in the country's history. This is the first time for non-bumiputras to hold the post as DUN Speaker (Teng Chang Khim- Sungai Pinang State Assemblyman as Selangor DUN Speaker and V. Sivakumar- Tronoh State Assemblyman as Perak DUN Speaker). This clearly shows that there should not be any discrimination in ministering a country because only the learned and capable ones will be entrusted with such great responsibilities to govern a country, just as what the late premier of China, Deng xiaoping (邓小平) said,

'A cat that knows how to catch rats is considered a good cat, regardless of whether it's a black cat or a white cat.' (不管黑猫白猫，会捉老鼠就是好猫。)

Here, the Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance) has shown a good example in this case.

That is the voice of the people.

THE NEW OPPOSITION

After the Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng announced the adoption of the competency, accountability and transparency (CAT) in developing the state in terms of applying and acquiring projects from government, instead of just implementing the New Economy Policy (NEP) straightly to avoid curruption from taking place, the Penang BN (UMNO) quickly took this opportunity to protest at the the Komtar building to voice out their dissatisfaction, saying that they would be discriminated without the NEP. This has clearly shown that these people are so immature and ignorant that they do things without having any consideration.

Throughout all these years, the public understood that that NEP does not really effective in helping up those poor ones in rural areas, instead, it does contribute a lot to great people like Zakaria and many other rich fellows in making money. Since the very beginning, CM Lim Guan Eng had no means to offend anyone by reviewing the truth. However, the misinterpretation of his intention caused him to be put under police investigation. I think this is the first time in our history that a state Chief Minister is being accused under Seduction Act after general election. Through this incident, it is also proven that the BN government is also eligible and has the potential to be a powerful opposition by taking immediate action effectively against the newly-formed state government, perhaps they may have to learn to be the country's opposition party as well one day.

That is the voice of the people.

THE AFTERMATH

The 12th General Elections has now become a hot topic of the public and the issue is so popular that one can hear it everywhere, even in the public toilet whereas the central government started to question each other ‘Why would this happen?’ Apart from having their unexplainable curiosity, some began to blame one another for the shocking defeat. They should have realised the importance of this incident for them to learn the lessons from their past mistakes, instead of blaming others for the poor election result.

In fact, this phenomenon is still comprehensible because according to some experienced senior politicians, 'pointing at each other' is always a common practice or culture in Malaysian politics. Therefore, it is not surprising for the public to see BN leaders like Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Deputy PM Najib and formal Penang Chief Minister Dr Koh would still ask all the fellow Malaysians to stay calm and not to worry over the changes in state government. It seems like they were still unaware of the needs of the whole nation to change.

That is the voice of the people.

FOREWORD

This blog is created in conjunction with the Malaysian 12th General Elections which brought a 'political tsunami' to the country for the first time since Malaysia gained its independence in the year 1957. This is the first time in the history of Malaysia that the Barisan Nasional (National Front) government not only lost its administration in five states (Kelantan, Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor), but also lost its 2/3 majority in the Parliamentary seats. Thus, all Malaysians are now looking forward towards a better change in the government.

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