Thursday, May 9, 2013

Malaysia GE13 - Moving Forward

Not going to talk about the hot topics of electoral frauds, hantus, gerrymandering, blackouts, tsunami ...  What I wish how Malaysia can move on after GE13.

For the Federal Government:
One common objective for both BN and PR is to move Malaysia out of middle income trap and gear towards a high income developed country.  However, from voting analysis, it's clearly shown that this is a government elected by rural folks. 

Question to ponder, how do we expect low/middle income group rural folks decide how to gear Malaysia towards high income and developed nation?

For today's globalized economy, 5 years is a very long time.  If we remain unchanged in the next 5 years, our neighboring country of Indonesia, Philippine, Vietnam can easily overtake us. Hence, I always wanted to see a new federal government that is also including the bright minds from opposition parties.  Choose who is qualified for the job, and not who has connection to you.  Let the bright minds lead Malaysia towards our common goals.

For PR Governed States:
The 3 states had MB from different political parties, DAP for Penang, PKR for Selangor and PAS for Kelantan.  All three has their own policies in governing their states.  e.g. Penang is a CAT government, Kelantan and Selangor are ??

For us, it's confusing.  Isn't that PR has a common national manifesto?  Can PR also has a common state government policy, and get all 3 PR lead states to govern under one single set of policy?  You need to prove to us that PKR, PAS and DAP are not loose coalition, and you can rule under one common policy.

For Gerakan/MCA/MIC/etc.:
DAP and PKR suffered even worse election defeat than you all in previous elections.  Did they give up?  What they did was they stood with the people, and passed people's voice to the federal government.  They had never left the people, and they speak for the peoples. 

If you want your dignity and respect back, earn it!   Your respect is not measured by how many minister / deputy minister posts that you held or don't held.  It's whether you have the guts to speak the truth and what is right.  Learn from Ong Tee Keat, if the government is wrong, speak out and bring justice.  Don't cover your BN colleagues faults.  Also, don't live in denial world anymore, with today's technology and social media, photo evidences are every where.

Believe in seeking the truth and speak for the truth.  People will be back for you.

To the Rakyat:
I'm glad that PR lost Kedah.  If I'm voting in Kedah, I'll cast the same vote.  We rakyat is telling the political parties, get lost if you don't perform.  It's one big step forward for democracy, where the political parties will now realize, the power is in the hand of rakyat.

We will continue to stand up and fight for what is right, via the right channels and the Ubah / Tukar choice is in our hands.

We also need to learn to be more mature is accepting and sharing information.  Don't take all online information came to us on face value.  Also don't let our emotion click the "Share" button for us, verify the information, understand the contents, make a conscious decision before clicking the "Share" button.