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Sunday, June 26, 2011

It's not Ops Lalang 2.0 that's needed but Ops Big Cleanup

It's not Ops Lalang 2.0 that's needed but Ops Big Cleanup

In the old days, Chinese mothers used to tell their children not to play in a certain place due to the place being la-char which in Cantonese means 'dirty'. The word 'dirty' here does not refer to the place being a garbage dump, but rather it refers to the place being haunted by ghosts.

'La-char' can also be used to describe the Malaysian electoral rolls as these rolls are filled with the names of phantom voters or ghosties.

PAS party workers have discovered at least 71,000 phantom voters in Selangor, 62,000 in Kedah and more than 50,000 in Perak. This shows that the electoral rolls are very dirty indeed. And these are just the phantoms detected. What about the undetected ones?

Pakatan decoy

However, instead of addressing these concerns, top BN leaders and the Election Commission are adamant that Bersih 2.0 is being used as a political tool by the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat. This despite the fact that Bersih 2.0 has issued invitations to all political parties from both sides of the divide to participate in the July 9th Walk For Democracy.

MCA has already announced that they will not be participating and any of their members caught doing so will face serious disciplinary action, while MIC and Gerakan are silent.

Bersih's demands for electoral reforms have been stubbornly ignored by the BN government. Instead, the government has gone on to twist facts in a perverted manner by saying that Pakatan is using Bersih to topple the federal government.

"As far as the government is concerned, we have made a decision and we think that the assembly is illegal and if the purpose is to send out a message that there are disagreements, that there are suggestions that they want to make about the rules of elections to the Election Commission, there are processes and procedures for that," Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin reporters on Saturday.

“Because of that, we think the rationale given by Bersih to have the rally is not relevant. That’s why we say this rally is politically-motivated."

Fear of free and fair elections

From this it can be seen that Prime Minister Najib Razak and his BN leaders fear free and fair elections the most. Their well-known argument is that if the elections were not free and fair, the Opposition would not have won five states in the previous general election.

Truth be told that if the elections were truly free and fair, the Opposition would have taken over Putrajaya in the previous general election. As it is, the results were skewed in BN's favour in the first-past-the-post system.

Who could forget that in the Parliamentary seat of Lembah Pantai, while counting was going on with PKR's Nurul Izzah having a lead of more than 5,000 suddenly won by only 2,000 plus votes when additional ballot boxes started to come in?told

Or in Rembau where PKR's Chegu Bard was leading UMNO's Khairy Jamaluddin but lost due to recounts?

Or in the recent Sarawak state polls where the PKR candidate in Senadin lost by only 51 votes and the EC officials did not want to conduct a recount?

It is also a known fact in Sabah that due to population re-engineering, citizens from a neighbouring country have been granted Malaysian citizenship with ease.

Direct PM polls too

With such dirty electoral rolls and dubious manipulation by the EC in tandem with other government agencies, the real voice of the Malaysian citizens are obliterated. Hence Bersih 2.0 to prevent elections from being stolen.

Indeed, it is time to do a massive clean-up of the electoral rolls and stop the thieving once and for all.

And speaking of thieving, the choice of the Malaysian voters have been stolen by UMNO in regards to the post of Malaysian Prime Minister. This is because Malaysian voters have no choice or no say in who is going to be the PM as the PM is chosen by UMNO delegates. That is less than 3,000 people representing a population of almost 30 million!

This in actual fact means that the PM has not even got a mandate from the rakyat or populace. It cannot be called a mandate when it is only a choice of less than 3 thousand people. Perhaps even the whole voting system to choose the PM's post should be given a total overhaul so that the rakyat can have a say in the matter.

There should have been direct Prime Ministerial elections pitting Najib against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim just like the direct Presidential elections in the USA. Then it is a fight of 1 to 1 as in popular showdown scenarios like in Western cowboy shootouts and Bruce Lee kung-fu flicks. As they say in Malaysian lingo, 'barulah best, cam tu!'.

Serious plumbing needed

Anyway, back to the la-char or 'dirty' electoral rolls. The phantom voters must be purged from the lists with immediate effect. The EC must not drag its feet over this issue. It is not about gifting the Pakatan Rakyatas the BN leaders like to insinuate.

It is high time Malaysia returns to real democracy. For that to happen, many people say 'Pakatan Plumbing' is needed to flush out all the faeces, filth and dung that have accummulated for over half a century.

But before any cleanup can occur by whichever power that be, the decision and choice of the Malaysian voters come first and must be respected and not twisted nor manipulated.

Really, it is time for Operations Big Cleanup, not Operations Lalang 2. Minister in the PM's Department Idris Jala's 2019 bankruptcy deadline is just 8 years away.

- Malaysia Chronicle

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