The ABCs of Life

Malaysia’s 12th PRU/GE shocking results made it the most interesting election in Malaysian history. Malaysians woke up to a new day, a new week…some greatly shocked by BN’s huge lost and little victory while others are in high spirits; feeling rejuvenated by the victory of the Oppositions which are considered as the victory of the people. Now BN is the Opposition in 5 states; something that has never happened in Malaysian history. I’d just like to jot down some interesting observations from the recent political scene.

- The Prime Minister has just sworn in for his 2nd term leading the country. Interesting enough to note that the country’s biggest leader is now ‘an opposition’ to the new Penang government after winning his Kepala Batas seat.

- The election’s result looks as if the people chose to sack the previous cabinet members when 4 ministers and 10 deputy ministers are now out of the system failing to be re-elected by the people.

- BN’s two main components which are MIC and MCA faced the worst loss of all. Seems like Malaysians are now saying NO to race-based parties. Even the seats won by UMNO had significant reduce in majority. I hope the ‘real’ integration led by the Oppositions will remain and improve in the future InshaAllah. Other than an opposition’s coalition, it’s a refreshing scenario where people of all races in Malaysia unite, fighting for what they believe in though they slightly differ in colour, language, religion and ideologies. We have lived too long together yet so little have been achieved feeling and being together. This time around, Malaysians caused serious political change TOGETHER, as one! Note: None of the winning Opposition parties are race-based; not even PAS and DAP who have majority Malays and Chinese as members. This could be seen from interesting pictures and reports showing:

1) an Indian wearing a shirt saying, “I’m an Indian, I’m a Hindu. I support Ulama’s (referring to Muslim religious scholars) leadership” during a campaign by the Opposition
2) Indians and Chinese helping PAS workers, Malays and Indians showing support for DAP

- The Election Commission’s corrupt practices; doubted postal votes, odd/inaccurate voters list are no secret to Malaysians yet the wind of change was so strong not even phantom voters could stop it.

- It’s like a dream to see key states like Penang and Selangor fall to the Oppositions..erm oops, the new government! I remembered a remark from a friend saying that it was OK for PAS to have Kelantan, but Penang and Selangor are money-making states which means the new governments will be having great income.

- Many fresh young leaders are born. The youngest MP aged 25 is Nik Nazmi of PKR

Before the election, I was a bit sceptical of change since Malaysia have been under BN for a long long time and many people thinks that change will only be worse than all the bad things that they’ve been experiencing. Well, thanks to the national media, people are reluctant to fight for what’s best for them before but thank God, truth and justice will always prevail! It’s a new Malaysia now. It’s time for hard work and it’s time to stick together no matter what. To all Malaysians, congratulations and may God help us all to achieve success, unity and peace for all.

At last, I could say, I’m proud to be Malaysian!