MALAYSIA’S FAILED EXPERIMENT WITH THE LEFT HAS LEFT MANY TO WONDER IF IT WAS RIGHT TO TAKE THE ROAD LEFT TO PUTRAJAYA.
…REJECTING OLD GOATS AND TURNING IN NEWHORNS, BAD FOR THE CAUSE OF THE NATION.
By Mansor Puteh
MANY MALAYSIANS WHO HAD TRIED TO DO A BIT OF TESTING AND EXPERIMENTING IN THE LAST 2008 GENERAL ELECTIONS HAVE FOUND OUT ALBEIT A LITTLE TOO LATE THAT EXPERIMENTING WITH THEIR FUTURE AT THE BALLOT BOXES COULD PROVE TO BE SUCH A DAUNTING EXPERIENCE.
IT’S AN EXPERIMENT THAT MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD CROSSED THE WRONG BOX TO PUT SOME ON THE TRACK TO PUTRAJAYA, HAS PROVEN TO BE FUTILE.
THAT THE COUNTRY STILL NEEDS TO BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK OR ELSE IT WOULD BE LEFT BEHIND.
It is too bad too that many of the voters in 2008 had tried to do something different. They did not want to vote for some Barisan candidates whom they thought their parties had allowed to contest again and again.
But in the process, they overdid it and the end result they not only rejected those old goats, but also turned in greenhorns who are no better than the old goats.
I was one of the few who did not exercise my voting rights by refraining. The problem was that the candidates from both Barisan and Pakatan were unknowns in my state and federal areas. So why should I vote any of them.
And true enough the two who had been voted in have not done much in my areas. They have not found it necessary to visit their state and federal constituencies.
They have so far erect banners and buntings to hail themselves as the representatives of the people here. This is all that they could ever think of.
Most likely they did not dare to show their faces in these areas because they are not so well educated. They do not know the places and its people or their problems.
They are only good for their parties.
So many people in my areas like in many other areas had tried to do some experimenting.
Now they are experiencing some discomfort at turning greenhorns who could not speak or write well in Melayu like they do.
And none of them had said anything intelligent or interesting in the parliament or state assemblies.
They are useless lawmakers. They are political greenhorn showmen.
Senior Barisan leaders did not realize that many of those whom they had chosen to recontest for the Nth number of times was not favored by the voters of their own constituencies.
Some of them might have been turned in as heads of their branches at the ‘cawangan’ levels with some having turned in at the national levels.
Yet, they did not realize that in the general elections, it is the voters who decide.
So no wonder even Samy Vellu lost.
It is therefore no point for Soi Lek to be proud that he had been voted in by his MCA party to be its new president. He cannot be sure if he can win in the next general elections.
Pakatan was given the chance to lead the way to Putrajaya, but instead of focusing on this destination, they had to make unnecessary detours to Jalan Duta. If they are not so lucky, some of them could find themselves seconded in Sungai Buloh for a lengthy period of time.
It will be good for those voters who had given them the chance by experimenting with the Left, so now they should be in a better position to judge for themselves if what they had done in 2008 was right.
The outcome of the 2008 general elections was good; it gave a chance for the voters in the country to find out if they could continue to trust Pakatan after what they had shown especially in the states they won and now govern.
But the Pakatan officials did not seize the moment and moved all those who had voted for them so that their position in national politics can be further strengthened.
They had failed to do this simply because those whom they had offered seats in the state assemblies and parliament could not perform. None of the greenhorns are functioning representatives.
The veterans are also not showing the way.
It is not for me to tech Pakatan how to prove their worth; they have to do it themselves.
But it is too late now especially with their party elections where all hells have broken loose which have threatened the very existence of their party.
The occasional demonstrations by some of their supporters and members in front of their party headquarters in Tropicana, Shahalam is a bad indication that things are not going on well.
There were also similar demonstrations outside of their de facto leader’s, Anwar Ibrahim’s house in Sentul.
I find it also stunning how there is a police station beside the PKR headquarters in Tropicana like it is deliberately created there for a purpose.
The Zaid factor can also cause some consternation to PKR as well as Pakatan and it is happening at a time when they did not need someone like him to be so crude as to challenge the party leadership by openly criticizing it and their leaders including Anwar.
So Malaysia’s experiment with the left has left many befuddled. Hopefully, in the next general elections which are due sometime in 2013, things can be put on the right track again.
I expect Pakatan to lose the states they control today except for Kelantan, which can see Pakatan losing more seats to Barisan which will soon announce their new strategy and also new logo to replace the old weight white in color on blue background.
And what happened in the floods in the northern states has also shown how incapable Pakatan is in governing them. They lack the experience to deal with natural calamities or have any new and interesting economic programs for those states and the whole country.
By Mansor Puteh
MANY MALAYSIANS WHO HAD TRIED TO DO A BIT OF TESTING AND EXPERIMENTING IN THE LAST 2008 GENERAL ELECTIONS HAVE FOUND OUT ALBEIT A LITTLE TOO LATE THAT EXPERIMENTING WITH THEIR FUTURE AT THE BALLOT BOXES COULD PROVE TO BE SUCH A DAUNTING EXPERIENCE.
IT’S AN EXPERIMENT THAT MANY OF THOSE WHO HAD CROSSED THE WRONG BOX TO PUT SOME ON THE TRACK TO PUTRAJAYA, HAS PROVEN TO BE FUTILE.
THAT THE COUNTRY STILL NEEDS TO BE ON THE RIGHT TRACK OR ELSE IT WOULD BE LEFT BEHIND.
It is too bad too that many of the voters in 2008 had tried to do something different. They did not want to vote for some Barisan candidates whom they thought their parties had allowed to contest again and again.
But in the process, they overdid it and the end result they not only rejected those old goats, but also turned in greenhorns who are no better than the old goats.
I was one of the few who did not exercise my voting rights by refraining. The problem was that the candidates from both Barisan and Pakatan were unknowns in my state and federal areas. So why should I vote any of them.
And true enough the two who had been voted in have not done much in my areas. They have not found it necessary to visit their state and federal constituencies.
They have so far erect banners and buntings to hail themselves as the representatives of the people here. This is all that they could ever think of.
Most likely they did not dare to show their faces in these areas because they are not so well educated. They do not know the places and its people or their problems.
They are only good for their parties.
So many people in my areas like in many other areas had tried to do some experimenting.
Now they are experiencing some discomfort at turning greenhorns who could not speak or write well in Melayu like they do.
And none of them had said anything intelligent or interesting in the parliament or state assemblies.
They are useless lawmakers. They are political greenhorn showmen.
Senior Barisan leaders did not realize that many of those whom they had chosen to recontest for the Nth number of times was not favored by the voters of their own constituencies.
Some of them might have been turned in as heads of their branches at the ‘cawangan’ levels with some having turned in at the national levels.
Yet, they did not realize that in the general elections, it is the voters who decide.
So no wonder even Samy Vellu lost.
It is therefore no point for Soi Lek to be proud that he had been voted in by his MCA party to be its new president. He cannot be sure if he can win in the next general elections.
Pakatan was given the chance to lead the way to Putrajaya, but instead of focusing on this destination, they had to make unnecessary detours to Jalan Duta. If they are not so lucky, some of them could find themselves seconded in Sungai Buloh for a lengthy period of time.
It will be good for those voters who had given them the chance by experimenting with the Left, so now they should be in a better position to judge for themselves if what they had done in 2008 was right.
The outcome of the 2008 general elections was good; it gave a chance for the voters in the country to find out if they could continue to trust Pakatan after what they had shown especially in the states they won and now govern.
But the Pakatan officials did not seize the moment and moved all those who had voted for them so that their position in national politics can be further strengthened.
They had failed to do this simply because those whom they had offered seats in the state assemblies and parliament could not perform. None of the greenhorns are functioning representatives.
The veterans are also not showing the way.
It is not for me to tech Pakatan how to prove their worth; they have to do it themselves.
But it is too late now especially with their party elections where all hells have broken loose which have threatened the very existence of their party.
The occasional demonstrations by some of their supporters and members in front of their party headquarters in Tropicana, Shahalam is a bad indication that things are not going on well.
There were also similar demonstrations outside of their de facto leader’s, Anwar Ibrahim’s house in Sentul.
I find it also stunning how there is a police station beside the PKR headquarters in Tropicana like it is deliberately created there for a purpose.
The Zaid factor can also cause some consternation to PKR as well as Pakatan and it is happening at a time when they did not need someone like him to be so crude as to challenge the party leadership by openly criticizing it and their leaders including Anwar.
So Malaysia’s experiment with the left has left many befuddled. Hopefully, in the next general elections which are due sometime in 2013, things can be put on the right track again.
I expect Pakatan to lose the states they control today except for Kelantan, which can see Pakatan losing more seats to Barisan which will soon announce their new strategy and also new logo to replace the old weight white in color on blue background.
And what happened in the floods in the northern states has also shown how incapable Pakatan is in governing them. They lack the experience to deal with natural calamities or have any new and interesting economic programs for those states and the whole country.
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