Anecdotes on the Past General Election – PRU 13

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Salam. This time I would to like to post my old writing on the past general election (GE) in Malaysia. Of course it is just the old story. But who bothers? Here, there are two parts of writing. The first one is an anecdote of mine regarding the coming PRU 13 (GE). While the second is my comment post-PRU 13. It was written at the time I was undergraduate back then. Need not to mention there is little editing as the anecdote was not complete. Here you go;

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The first:

“Tonight, I’m just doing nothing. Facebooking and surfing the internet. What is the most fascinating/hot issue in the internet/web right now? If you asking me, my answer would be one and the only one; that is the political fever. Everyone in everywhere in this country is in the mood of political phenomena. In Malaysia the political voting season is called as PRU in short name or Pilihanraya Umum. If it is literally translated into English it is called as General Election. This year is the thirteenth General Election or PRU 13.”

“Every political observer and also the layman including me too is so convinced that this PRU 13 would be the most controversial/hot election ever in Malaysia after PRU 12 in 2008. Back then in 2008, a radical change or at least major change had had occurred in the election whereas the opponent parties in the Malaysian parliament had won quite a big number of parliament and state legislative assembly seats in several states. The opponents had successfully able to form new states government. The states were Selangor, Penang, Kedah, and Perak (for a while-before turned back to BN). Need not to mention here the Kelantan state as it was already being the opponent party’s state for about 20 years then. Hence, for this PRU 13 it is going to be more interesting for us to foresee and to await for the results as the then government and the opponent have had learnt lesson from the mistakes that they made in the last general election in 2008. For the then government, they would be more ready with the next coming PRU 13. Perhaps, they are. Just wait for the result.”

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The second one:

The last sentence of this piece of writing (above) is made in the last minute in the election season in Malaysia. It was on 19/04/13 at 01.29 hours. The GE 13 was held on 05/05/13. Now, at the time I am writing this note again, Malaysia have had the election vote casting day and we have had new government appointed for federal level. To be Malaysia ruling party. The government would be the previous government, which is the BN allies. There were so many rumours regarding the vote casting. There was a speculation and also allegation that the won parties had made some cheating in the election. Some of the allegations are the issue of Bangladeshi and other foreigners who had cast the vote and blackout at the election centres during the process of calculating the votes especially in Kuala Lumpur. Instead, there had been many rumours that blackout had had also occurred in other states.

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After the election day, the opposition allies had made a rally and petition regarding the cheating issues. The rally had been called as blackout. It had been organised in almost every state in the peninsular of Malaysia. I am not sure that there had been a rally or demonstration in Sabah and Sarawak. I have to check it back. Now on, I am writing this note directly out of my mind and from my limited memory. Truly, after the election results, I seldom check and go through newspaper or mind about the Malaysian news especially on the politic. Maybe I was quite frustrated with the election process, the issues and also the result. Noted that I did not fully support the opposition to win or even the government to rule this country. However, I was pretty sure that I wanted to let the PAS – the opposition party – to win the State’s seat in Kelantan. PAS had been the government for more than twenty years ago.

What do I really want (as a layman) from Malaysian politic? I have my own aspiration for the politic in this country. Yeah it could be quite the same as some academician or scholar in Malaysia because I agreed with their opinion and aspiration for Malaysia future. To talk about politic in Malaysia is just like a kid tends to talk about philosophy of the level of al-Ghazali, al-Farabi, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. In spite of that fact, I still need to talk about it by hook or by crook as it affects my life. You may ignore politic but bear in mind whether you follow or not the politic, it does affects your life.

I want Malaysia to be more mature in politic. What I have seen in Malaysia, the politic is a race based politic. It is a party-based politic. Party is okay, however, the fact that the party is a racial based party is something that quite disappointing me. I know about the history of today’s party. How it had been founded and why it is founded, and by whom and for whom. Be it a racial based party or what, it still can be tolerated as Malaysia is a unique country with multi-racial. Anyone cannot deny this fact. The saddest thing is all the parties in general use the race sentiment or raise racial based issue in obtaining their votes or support from the grass-roots. Sometimes to the extent that it could causes a racial riot among the Malaysian.

I am one of the youngsters or someone called us as Y-generation who actually felt fade up or frustrated with this kind of political environment. What is it really the most important thing for a country to be success in any era? Is it prosperity, wealth, money, or what? No, it is the cooperation, collaboration, and respect amongst the multi-racial people in the country. If we still fight one another, how come this state could excel in developing a civilised nation and developed country. 

The root for the integration is the language and communication and interaction amongst the multi-racial people. A Malay must befriend with a Chinese, Indian and the others and vice versa. They must have a chance to interact one another in order to understand their feeling, needs, and perception of a race to another. The key for this interaction is school. It is the best place for a young generation to have communication with one another and get to know about the other races. There had been a plan and strategies by the government for this kind of school but the cooperation of these various races are really poor and disappointed. Need not to mention which race is really reluctant to this agenda. I do not want to be racist but somehow that is what happening here in Malaysia.

– 18/07/13 @ 2.50 a.m. Thursday night – 9 Ramadhan 1434 –

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P/s: Last edited and posted on Friday night – 14/02/14, 04.53 hours.