My intrepretation - Part 2

Wherever I went today , everybody was talking about the outcome of the 838 elections. From high ranking professionals, gym trainers and down to the "domestic affairs officers" - ( the foreigner working staffs la !! ) were so involved in commenting the outcome of a bizzare polls.Some thought it was a shock , few did expect it but not as how big it is in denying the 2-3rd majority while another group ( who did not even vote !! ) were commenting on how it should not have happened.
I must say in all the discussions I was involved in today had a common fact. They thought the BN government deserved it because of their arrogance. It became a silent understanding that most Malaysians were not happy with how the country is managed at the moment. The government controlled media labelled the phenomena as protest votes while the anti-BN media put it simply as the "rakyat" speaks. Both are however correct ; just like seeing the glass which is half empty and at the same time half full.I do hope that the "viagraless "BN would not blame rakyat as stupid in not voting them as it will only cause more anger and dissapointment.

The rakyat were challenged - time and time again. If they wanted change , d show it during the polls - the ruling party said in past confidence of winning all the time . And my . my .. how the rakyat have reacted. The results amplified that BERSIH and HINDRAF rallies were significant and not just another mere anti establishment tactics. If one really analyze the results almanacly ,it was our electoral distribution maintained the big number of seats for BN . The truth is , losing 5( major states ) out of 11 states in Peninsular ( Melaka , Perlis and Negeri Sembilan is not that big though ) is a major disaster ! Even Johor seems to lessen its role as a guranteed state for BN.

Barisan Nasional only gained about 51 percent of the popular vote from the 7.9 million ballots cast on Saturday.However, it took 63 percent of the seats contested - or 140 of 222 seats in Parliament.Interestingly, its peninsula-wide popular vote was only 49.79 percent, which effectively means that the opposition received the majority vote in this part of the country.However, when converted to parliamentary seats, BN has 85 of the constituencies in the peninsula, while the opposition bagged 80.Almost 40 percent of the BN's seats are in Sabah and Sarawak - 55 out of 140.

( source : Malaysiakini)

The Malays , Chinese and Indians in urban areas voted for a corruption free management which has been in doubt especially in Selangor. Too many mismanagements were reported in both mass and cyber media ; and somehow they thought they could run away with it. The major revamp on City councils will be interesting to watch ; because all this while it was this particular issue raised and debated in the State Assemblies. Issues of PakLah's sleeping policy tendencies and claims of KJ's hidden hand became the popular campaign issue in the rural voting areas. Of course , it sounded like slander and character assasination but unfortunately the counter reaction was not convincing at all ( If it was not true laa.. ) hence the obvious swing for the fence sitters.

However , to really say that we have voted as Malaysians rather than for personal race survival may be too early. We'd like to think we have done so but I beg to differ . It maybe a first step towards creating REAL- Malaysia but our voters are still voting out of sentiment rather than core issues. We will mature as a society as there is no accelerated ways for this .Firstly , we really do need a lot of understanding about Malaysia and love its history. Logical solving of fundamental constitutional issues may not be as simple as how we reckon it is.

P/S Lost my phone on election day !!! Hahahaha.. frust giller. but got a new one now... though i still adore the old one..