Zahid's atrocious political language

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the new Home Minister yesterday issued a depraved statement by asking Malaysians who do not believe in the system of democracy practiced here to emigrate. He was referring to the claim by certain quarters that BN has morally lost the mandate of the rakyat since the coalition only managed to secure 47 percent popular votes in the last GE. Unambiguously Zahid took the claim incorrectly as if Pakatan Rakyat is putting up a claim to govern the country just by the popular votes secured by them in the just concluded GE.

PR was just referring to the crude fact that BN has lost moral legitimacy as a truly mandated government by the rakyat as it secured less than the percentage earned by Pakatan Rakyat. By the number of seats, no one in the correct state of mind would deny the fact that BN has earned marginally supplementary seats of 133 altogether. To Zahid, let’s be a bit more grown-up and the emotional reaction should not have come from a senior member of the Cabinet.

Hundreds of thousand rakyat nightly assemble in various locations nation wide lately were against the election results which Pakatan Rakyat alleged were out of massive rigging of the votes country wide during the GE.

Ahmad Zahid called upon those who believe in the single transferable vote systems which are normally practiced in the Republican countries should leave for those countries and suit themselves with their system. Ahmad Zahid said that we don’t practice that system here.

I am not incompatible with Zahid over the issue of differences of system adopted between those in republican countries and our country here, but to the astonishment of many, Zahid issued a statement which palpably reflects his arrogance and conceit. “His statement suits and tallies with attribute of illegitimate leaders who hang on to power derived form illegitimate prop up” said a friend who lives within my neighborhood.

A weak and feeble leader will cover their undernourished leadership reliability with offensive and abusive dispositions and that is natural feature in UMNO. As one of the PR leaders rightly said, the kick-start for the termination of UMNO as ruling party has started.

In actuality it’s not just Zahid suffering from this ‘terminal’ disease. There are many more....