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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Najib's select committee: A ploy to undermine and sideline Bersih

Najib's select committee: A ploy to undermine and sideline Bersih

The recent announcement by Prime Minister Najib Razak to set up a Parliamentary Select Committee to review the electoral process in the country took everyone by surprise. It was cautiously welcomed by the Pakatan Rakyat, Bersih and Transparency International Malaysia, although many were also sceptical about its true motives.

But hold on. Isn’t it a little too late for Najib to start implementing reforms?Something is wrong.

Since 2009 when he took over from Abdullah Badawi, Malaysians have not seen any of the reforms he promised being carried out or showing any result, except for 1Malaysia, which in the end was also found out to be another hollow trick.

Too little, too late

In the beginning, Najib supporters slyly blamed the failure of the unifying 1Malaysia on his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin and former premier Mahathir Mohamad. 1Malaysia never had a chance, they said, when Mahathir-backed rabble-rousers like Perkasa made sure it would remain buried deep in the ground.

But the sad truth is, Najib wasn't that convinced either. He never even displayed the political will or gumption to push it through.

Now, out of the blue, Najib wants Malaysians to think he has returned to the middle ground after sticking his neck to the right. It is good that most Malaysians learn their lesson fast. Most people are now wary of Najib – given his flip-flop decisions of the past and his disastrous handling of the Bersih Rally especially after he publicly reneged on his promise to give 'any stadium’ to Bersih that it wanted.

This time for sure Najib has something up his sleeve this time. Probably buying time until the general election, or cooling down the red-hot political temperature of the past few weeks. Or is he hoping to create his own Bersih with the PSC? Note that till now, the Attorney General has not lifted Bersih's outlawed status. So how can Najib pretend that this is a serious effort to clean up the electoral system? How come he doesn't include them? It doesn't make sense, does it?

Frankly, it is a waste of time to even bother to figure out why. Remember his Diam Lah or Shaddup Facebook defacements. That is probably the only remark fitting to make to Najib now.

This latest PSC will turn out to be another great sham. And the most unforgivable part of all is that it is a malicious, time-wasting sham. It is ill-conceived, ill-thought-out and a waste of everyone's effort and time. Human brains were meant to think and seek out good thoughts to benefit humankind. Here to the BN's lasting shame, they are trying to use the PSC to sideline Bersih in order to mask electoral fraud which they have every intention to ratchet up and not down.

In past, there were those who feared his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin but at this point in time, anyone is better than Najib. Malaysia has not need for such garbage leadership and we should not allow our time to be wasted by a PM who is good only at chasing his own tail.

Think about it. On Monday, he grandly announces Bershin. The mainstream goes WOW, what a liberal. It is an olive branch. Heis admitting that Bersih is right.

On Tuesday, his own ministers known to take their orders directly from him, such as Nazri Aziz, start to shoot down Bersih and public expectations of the type of reforms PSC was willing to undertake. Nazri even warned that before any thing concrete could come out from the PSC, the general election may be held as it was the prerogative of the Prime Minister. Are Malaysians not justified in asking, what the Hell? Isn't this nonensical?

Walk out, now

On Wednesday, Nazri confrims Bersih will not be part of the PSC. This is the signal for Pakatan Rakyat. It must walk out and not lend credence to a panel that is meant to trick the people into falsely beliving the electoral system is being cleaned up.

Read our lips, Najib Razak and the UMNO elite have no intention to clean up the system. So stop wasting time with all the analyses. The BN is only making FOOLS of the Makaysian people.

Bersih must wake up now. It must shake off the false promises made on Monday. Wake up and start formulating new plans to pressure the government into reforming the system. If that is too tough, then start formulating plans to let the Malaysian know what is happening. Create public awareness that the PSC is a humungous lie.

Imagine the headlines in Utusan and Star each day, Election Commission finds phantom voters on electoral rolls and has ordered an immediate rectification. Yet in reality, 2 million 'instant citizens' are being created by the National Registration department. Speaking of which, isn't it odd that if Najib was sincere about electoral reforms, he would have stopped the Amesnty program immediately. Instead, the Amnesty deadline has been extended by a week.

Whap happens to Bersih now? Even the alternative media will be split by having to cover the PSC and then Bersih. Lost and forgotten is who will check and audit that reforms are really being carried out. What should Bersih do then?

It should warn Malaysians immediately that this is the latest ploy by the BN to escape cleaning up the system. There is no other explanation for refusing Bersih entry into the PSC, no other reason to keep Bersih an outlawed organisation, no reasons why the 8 simple reforms requested by Bersih cannot be implemented immediately.

Without doubt, Pakatan must pull out of the PSC and expose it for what it is. A diabolical plot by the BN and most shamefully, the EC too.

- Malaysia Chronicle

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