[pullquote_left]For Bahasa Malaysia News Click Here Chronology[/pullquote_left]It is unthinkable when some leader within the Opposition block suddenly starts preaching about bipartisan politics and is sadid to be seeking to get into dialogues of sorts with a party that took the mantle to rule with a minority popular vote-winning. It is strange how some politicians will start making roundabout turns.
Let us start with the basics. The bottom line reality is the opposition secured 51% of popular votes leaving BN with a minority count of 47%. But BN went on to form the government.
The voters are questioning, “What happened to our voice and our choice?”
Where else in the world are minority vote winning political parties sworn in to govern a nation – only in Malaysia. Now that is what the rakyat are furious about.
They will come to all post-election rallies not because of a leader within that political party making his or her trade mark statement or speech. They come because it is a platform to register their unhappiness. They come because they see leaders who think like them and are prepared to take that leap forward to help them have their justice returned.
Effort is appreciated but don't be naive
Black 505 has already registered its mark as a gathering of all Malaysians, cutting across race and religion demarcations and is not restricted to PAS, DAP, PKR territories but is a nationwide concern. Period.
Against this background of concern, how on earth can anyone suddenly have the nerve to proclaim the need to practice bipartisan politics or even to suggest that there needs to be dialogue between the winning party that lost the right to form the in-coming government and the losing party that went on to become the ruling government.
For as long as we try to sweep this fundamental democratic principle of ‘the majority wins’ in an election - more so after 56 years of gaining independence democratically, we have in reality set the clock of Malaysia’s political maturity far, far back.
Even trying to answer the numerous irregularities and attempting to negate thread by thread the many allegations from blackouts to invisible indelible ink is all hogwash. It is a mockery and insult to the human race that has gone fast forward to democratize the world on all its four paradigms, i.e. political, social, and economic and environment.
The logic that all aspects of constituency-distribution vis-a-vis gerrymandering will be redressed in the years ahead and before GE-14, is yet another mock at the very foundation of democracy. How can we even have gone into election mode knowing full well that our notorious gerrymandering has not been resolved all these donkey years?
Anwar & PR must hold firm: Don't compromise
If the opposition political party compromises on the very fundamentals that the rakyat feel they have been betrayed of, then they too must suffer the same fate as what BN and Najib are facing today. The citizens will delist such parties and the price will be very high for politicians.
The logic of accepting the injustices of a flawed elections for the sake of economic progress is also most distorting and grossly misplaced.
You cannot have economic progress for all citizens when the foundations of democratic politics and civil liberties have been pawned. What you have in place is privileged economics that benefits the few and those with vested interest.
Let us have some focus here. The moral obligation equally rests with political leaders to discipline their teammates. This is not the season to nail democracy prematurely. It is not even the season for disgruntlements between leaders and hopefuls within political parties. This is the season of getting honest and serious about this nation’s future.
Let us have the humility and the courage to learn from recent history too. During the heights of the global financial crises, the neighboring countries bit the bullet. They took the IMF option; restructured their socio-political landscape and today are well on the way of riding the progressive future.
Politicians must stay abreast with the people
Likewise, we Malaysians need to bite the bullet today in the wake of this unprecedented and phenomenal politics of Malaysia. If we are not living up to the tenets of democracy and civil liberties, then we cannot ride the storms of economic crises that will come and also not surf on the benefits of the changing global socio-politics and socio-economies that many nations are already set to harness.
There is therefore no room for dialogue or bipartisan politics. What we need is to admit that our GE-13 was flawed; that the intentions of going to the polls were morally wrong; that the means to the end were unjustified and tainted.
We need to have that wisdom and moral fibre to stand up and say in the best interest of nation and king and citizens that democracy is dead in GE-13.
If we have what it takes to succeed on a world-class note of distinction, it is, first to admit where we went wrong and rectify with remedies that make us walk tall in the eyes of the global community of true democracies.
The rakyat of Malaysia have matured. It is the politicians who are falling behind.
To test the rakyat’s patience would be foolish; to ignore the rakyat’s quest for fair play would be detrimental for any political party. We are part of this emerging new world order. The times and tides have no place for manipulated democracies.
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