DAP must not be Gerakan-ized

Calls from a number of people including former Info Min Zainuddin Maiden for DAP to join BN for national reconciliation.

and enjoy this capon wakakaka

Don't ever forget what happened to the once-mighty Gerakan Party which over circumcised itself when it responded to Tun Razak's invitation to join the newly formed BN. It ended up not only being sunat-ed but having no balls.

Gerakan Party could have been the ruling party by mid 80's or early 90's if it had resisted Razak's siren call. Many middle and upper class Malays were attracted to its multiracial character. Razak made that invitation because he was sh*t scared of Gerakan.

His invitation was a brilliant strategy that in one fell stroke emasculated the powerful Gerakan, the Ipoh-Perak King PPP and various other non-Perikatan parties including PAS which had demolished (or tsunami-ed) Tunku's Alliance (Perikatan) in 1969, into the sycophantic subordinates of UMNO that you have seen for the last three decades.

Tunku's Perikatan (Alliance)
predecessor to BN
sunk by loose coalition of
Gerakan, PPP, DAP and PAS

Socialist Front boycotted 1969 polls
and disappeared forever
its 'descendants' are PRM and PSM

DAP had wisely stayed out of BN so don't begrudge this party's success today because for them, veterans like Uncle Lim and Bhai Karpal, it has been a long 45-years haul from 1969 to now, one of tremendous sacrifices in resisting the lure of the BN trough (or gravy train) and threats, and not forgetting spells in Kem Kamunting.

free meals and lodging
provided by BN government, wakakaka

PAS subsequently left BN (for second time - first time was from Perikatan), which explains why Pak Haji Nik Aziz has never trusted UMNO.

But this is not to say DAP can't work with BN for the good of the country and rakyat, but never within BN as a coalition member. It will be Gerakan-ized into a capon (eam kay), wakakaka.

Before Pakatan, Malaya-Malaysia had two outstanding political parties, namely:

(a) Socialist Front (merger of Labour Party and Parti Rakyat), and

(l) Parti Rakyat, (r) Labour Party

Socialist Front logo has the Labour Party's emblem behind the Kerbau
the SF and later even the Labour Party was popularly known to the Chinese
as Gu-T'au-Tong (Parti Kepala Kerbau)
[wonder how Hishamuddin was connected wakakaka]

Socialist Front boycotted 1969 polls and disappeared forever
its 'descendants' are PRM and PSM

(b) Gerakan Party

The former was hobbled through laws while the latter was gelded within BN, wakakaka again.

DAP and BN can work on policies, programs and projects on a bipartisan basis as sovereign equals but never as same coalition members regardless of whether the partnership is equal or not equal, because partnership is irrelevant when two independent parties cooperate or collaborate but never combined or merged together as a coalition (like BN).

tender capon for UMNO to 'makan'

new Gerakan Party symbol?
wakakaka

And in an election, there's no such thing as allocation of X number of seats to A and Y number of seats to B. DAP and BN can and shall contest against each other as different and independent political parties to provide the rakyat a democratic choice.

Pokoknya, DAP must remain and stay independent, yes, even as a cooperating member in Pakatan.

outside BN

Selangor's acid test for Anwar Ibrahim

The excitement leading to the 13th Malaysian elections should by now be over, but with the known results and its consequences of dissatisfaction among both UMNO and PKR leaders, we are now experiencing new excitement. But let's leave Mahathir and Anwar to their eternal vendetta and look at Selangor.

I won

Guess who said that? wakakaka

The PM has been sworn in, CM and MB of states have been sworn in as well BUT with one significant exception, that of Selangor.

Ironically this time, contrary to our worries, it's not PAS making an avaricious grab at the post in spite of the solar-powered bible salesman playing the batu api (agent provocateur). Both PAS and DAP have supported Khalid Ibrahim to be the MB as they believe he has done a damn good job in the previous term.

Opposition to Khalid becoming the MB of Selangor for the new state assembly term-ship comes from within PKR, that bloody nest of vipers. The best known secret for years has been Azmin Ali desiring the MB post for himself.

Thunderous applause for the Political Pygmy please
wakakaka

We have heard and read of his 'involvements' in PKR internal politics, the consequences of which have seen Zaid Ibrahim, Jonson Chong and a host of others leaving the party in utter disgust. We know Wan Azizah, Nurul Izzah and Khalid Ibrahim have been consigned, naturally or deliberately, to a camp different to Azmin's.

All these and more are known, yet tolerated if not approved by Anwar Ibrahim, who somehow seems totally beholden to Azmin's ambitions or captivated by the latter's charm ... ing personality.

Currently it's downright embarrassing for Pakatan as Malaysia's so-called premier state, won by the coalition with more than 2/3 majority, is now in an appalling state of leadership limbo, waiting for the announcement of who is to be the MB. PKR is the heels dragging culprit as it indulges in the shadow play within its ranks.

isn't more pleasurable to look at sweetie than other PKR leaders?
wakakaka

Raja Petra Kamarudin of Malaysia-Today wrote in his latest article titled The expected happened about the whys and wherefores of the delayed announcement of the Pakatan MB:

There is currently a tussle going on between Team Khalid and Team Azmin for the post of Menteri Besar. I have, in fact, written about this a few times in the past.

PAS and DAP have both issued statements endorsing Khalid Ibrahim. Azmin Ali, however, insists that he be made Menteri Besar and if Khalid is given the post instead then he will leave the party together with his supporters.

Anwar Ibrahim is now in a dilemma. First of all, his wife and daughter support Khalid and not Azmin. Secondly, most of the candidates in the recent election were handpicked by Azmin. Hence many of the 30 PKR Members of Parliament are his people.

Hence, also, if Azmin leaves with, say, just 15 of this supporters and they declare themselves as ‘independents’, then added to the 133 Members of Parliament that Barisan Nasional has, Barisan Nasional will now have a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

So, either Azmin is made Menteri Besar or else Barisan Nasional will get its two-thirds majority in Parliament.

It sounds like blackmail. And as we know, blackmail once appeased develops a dangerous voracious appetite that can never ever be satiated. There will be no stopping it.

I opine that Anwar should allow Azmin Ali to leave with 15 or even more of his inner coterie, and yes, let UMNO have that 2/3 which seems to have obsessed Dr Mahathir.

Other than possible further Constitutional amendments, perhaps to:

(a) deny Chinese the rights to vote, wakakaka, and let the mahjung games begin,

(b) increase the voting age to 35 and above, to prevent young Malays most of whom are pro Pakatan, from voting, and

(c) legislate to honour Dr Mahathir in a new position (in recognition of his extraordinary service which has been 'beyond the call of duty' to UMNO) as the Sultan of Sabah (an amended Constitution can do that),

what difference would it make, considering UMNO is already leading the new Malaysian government.

If Azmin plus his 15 defect to UMNO, I guess-timate they will last at most 5 years before most of them will be swallowed up by UMNO, with their bones spat out by the time GE-14 arrives. I'll provide the toothpicks.

Of course my opinion won't count. But Pakatan in PAS, DAP and those PKR ADUN supporting Khalid have made their choice for MB, with only Anwar as Pakatan Leader left to persuade PAS and DAP otherwise.

Will he?

This will be a wonderful test of Anwar's leadership qualities and his commitment to Malaysia and Pakatan as to whether he will let his personal ties to Azmin override what is obviously the greater good for both Selangor and the coalition.

The Morning After - Part 2

... continuing from The Morning After - Part 1

Okay, the title of this post is a bit of a misnomer as it's already Two mornings after but never mind as it allows me to capture some of the 'wisdoms' that have emerged since yesterday.

another style of The Morning After, wakakaka

Let's start off with Najib's 'Chinese tsunami' which gave scrumptious grounds for sweetie Joceline Tan from The Star to write her GE13: Reeling from Chinese tsunami. Promoting Najib's comment about the loss of BN seats particularly in Johor, she informed us (some extracts):

"... The Malay wall held back the Chinese tsunami ..."

I love sweetie Joceline especially for her wonderful spinning skills where she obviously and deliberately brought focus onto a gloomy picture of the now ominous ethnic divide between Malays and Chinese caused by the non-participation of that marvellous Chinese-based party called MCA or Malaysian Chinese Association, which incidentally The Malaysian Insider in a post election editorial has suggested for it (ie. MCA) to drop the 'C' from its name because the party failed miserably to represent the community it claimed it represented.

That the Star is owned by MCA is of course just a coincidence, wakakaka.

wakakaka

And then, just in case we are too dumb to recognize her not too subtle HINT, she emphasized on the future status of a MCA-less Malaysian cabinet by reminding us:

"... MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek tweeted late last night that the party would not be accepting any government posts. This was in keeping with the pledge made that the party would not accept posts in the Government if it did not do better this time ...".

Who knows, maybe Najib will bring Teng Chang Yeow into the cabinet via the Senate back door like was done for his party president Koh TK. Bloke is a Johorean and also a Chinese language expert (while in USM he was sec-gen of the Chinese language society), thus may be useful to Ah Jib Gor, wakakaka.

Besides UMNO is known to favour Gerakan over MCA as it's said that UMNO (and not just Chinese Malaysians) sometimes sees MCA as arrogantly too big for its shoes, wakakaka.

Then sweetie added in the obligatory accolade for Taikoh but she couldn't resist a jab at those 'ungrateful' Chinese, wakakaka:

"... The Chinese rejection of Barisan is a big blow to Najib, who went out of his way to persuade them to come along on his economic and political transformation journey. The Chinese have rejected a moderate and inclusive leader, who has made more overtures to the Chinese than any other Prime Minister before him, and Najib and his coalition will have to reassess all this in the months to come. ...".

I leave my comment for above later.

And she consolidated on the thrust of her MCA-ish merajuk comment: "... One of the most disturbing aspects of the election result is that the ruling coalition is dominated by Umno and the Malays while the opposition Pakatan is dominated by the Chinese-based DAP. The impact of this will become clearer as the dust settles over the most closely-fought election ever."

Poor Star, poor sweetie Joceline - whichever way they write, they'd get blasted. As lamented by Wong Chuh Wah, my erstwhile matey sweetie Helen Ang has been lambasting The Star for being too pro DAP, wakakaka, while of course DAP people think otherwise. Tony Pua had even accused The Star people who rejected DAP's ad as liars.

Pro UMNO blogger Syed Akbar Ali (OutSyed The Box) wrote a rather interesting piece titled How The Malay Vote Was Lost, his personal observations on the polling but based on some statistical findings by sweetie Helen Ang. Sweetie is known for her excellent statistical findings, and we know from experience that statistics in the hands of some people can be quite interesting.

I truly thank Syed and sweetie for their findings, whether correct or otherwise, because it made me realize that those damn Chinese have forsaken one of their traditional and most cherished Election-Day activity, mahjung playing. How outrageous! What cultural blasphemy, oh those bloody radical revolutionary Philistines! Wakakaka!

are you Bangladeshis?
if so, please continue playing

wakakaka

Yes, Malaysian politics is also a story of the politics of race or, if you like, race in politics. It's unfortunate we can't escape racial discussions in politics because we haven't yet possessed adequate thrust (or trust) and thus the required escape velocity to overcome its powerful gravitational pull, which compels us into more mundane Earthly understanding of its issues.

But anyway, let's leave them, Syed and the sweeties, and return to Najib's 'Chinese tsunami'. Many have disputed and re-identified his attribution for BN's loss in some Johor seats such as Gelang Patah. The most astonishing one has been from a known UMNO mouthpiece, Pak Kadir Jasin.

Pak Kadir suggested, rather correctly, it was a Malaysian rather than uniquely-Chinese tsunami. I wonder not so much at Pak Kadir's correct identification but more at the significance of an UMNO mouthpiece (mind you, a quite sophisticated and subtle one) challenging the PM? What possible Machiavellian mischievous machination might have been behind his challenging assertion?

Hmmm, perhaps I too have been too much influenced by rumours of (FMT's) Najib [being forced] to step down end of year, supposedly an UMNO party requirement which was started by Dr Mahathir. The Old Man told Reuters last year that Najib must improve on the 140 seats won by BN in 2008 or his position would be unstable, meaning Najib would be forced to step down like his predecessor AAB.

Dr Mahathir has never been an easy man to read. He had virtually co-authored The Art of War with Sun Tzu, wakakaka, in which he was reputed to have personally written “All warfare is based on deception”, wakakaka again.

Yes, Sun Tzu was my best mate
wakakaka

As I had written in a previous post Race in politics, politics in race regarding Pakatan’s wishful thinking about Dr Mahathir undermining Najib:

Maybe we have been syiok-sendiri-ishly mistaken (kidding ourselves) about UMNO being a divided house, when in fact they are playing Sun Tze's 'inflict injury on oneself to win the enemy's trust', where Najib by pretending to be 'injured' from UMNO intra-party fighting, lulls his enemy into relaxing his guard since he longer considers Najib to be an immediate threat.

Thus, Najib plays being the victim of ultra rightwing forces within UMNO in a manmanlai hope to secure as many Chinese and Indian sympathy votes as possible, or convince Chinese and Indians to 'help' poor Ah Jib Gor against UMNO rightwing forces …

... while his UMNO colleague (or sifu, wakakaka) assures (and secures) the Heartland that all's well and eight bells under a Hang Tuah-ish UMNO …

If so, then it's a brilliant pincer attack which would have earned the admiration of the Carthaginian general Hannibal (or at least his soul).

Thus I am inclined to believe Dr Mahathir has been playing reverse psychology.

We know Dr Mahathir is (still) the Kingpin in UMNO and the Emperor of all he surveys within the party. He had even overthrown AAB and in earlier years had de-fanged the un-defang-able. Thus I doubt very much Najib will be forced to resign by end of the year as he still enjoys the favour of the powerful UMNO king-maker who, I opine, would rather have Najib (than Muhyiddin) nurse Mukhriz upwards in the party leadership echelon, for 5 reasons:

Firstly, Mahathir and Najib have a history of family kam-cheng (bond of mutual gratitude and hutang budi) starting from Mahathir's hutang budi to Najib's father since after the 1969 coup d'etat of Tunku Abdul Rahman. Thus it's likely Najib is more trusted to mentor Mukhriz as Mahathir had and probably is still mentoring Najib.

Yes, we can describe Najib being not his own man, totally beholden to Dr Mahathir, a weakling without spine, etc. But make a guess on how Anwar was when he was in UMNO for 16 years as Mahathir's protégée as the Old Man groomed him up the ladder and enabled him to leapfrog (pun not intended, wakakaka) over more senior UMNO leaders? Okay, go ahead and chew me up if you lack the intellectual honesty to review Anwar's history in UMNO.

Secondly, Mahathir doesn't hate Najib like he hated (maybe still does) AAB. So Dr Mahathir is unlikely to press for the ouster of Najib (as he had for AAB) based on the nonsensical lack of 2/3 majority.

Here's a kaytee secret for you - the reason Dr Mahathir hated (hates?) AAB was inadvertently revealed by AAB himself (of course in an indirect fashion) during an interview with Pichai Chuensuksawadi, editor-in-chief of the Bangkok Post, in December 2006. 

I can tell you it was all a pot of lies
wakakaka

Thirdly, I believe Dr Mahathir had once stated (prior to some kind of election, perhaps the one between him and Ku Li for the UMNO presidency) that even if he won by one vote, he was still a legitimate winner and would accept the post. So, minus the sort of hatred he had/has(?) for AAB, how could he argue for Najib to be removed from the UMNO president position for not achieving a 2/3 majority in GE-13?

The mandatory mandate of 2/3 majority has been a manmanlai myth, a nonsense which has basically been something nice to have, to be able to commit all sorts of constitutional amendments, but not necessary to form a reasonably stable government.

Fourthly, no BN leader, not even Dr Mahathir himself, would have been able to achieve that impossibility of a win with 2/3 majority in GE-13.

Finally but not least, Najib is viewed favourably by business, both internationally and locally, as evident by a TMI report As results sink in, big winners are KL tycoons and Lynas as stocks rally showing a bullish local market in response to Najib’s victory. Dr Mahathir is hardly one to kill an UMNO-Malaysian goose that lays economic golden eggs.

Okay, I accept that Anwar too would be viewed favourably by internationally and local business, but alas, he isn't the PM, is he?

The reality is hard for a Pakatan supporter to swallow unless he/she is true to him/herself in assessing the political outcomes of GE-13, warts and all, without a jaundiced view - 'warts' being the dodgy-ness of the polling process, though mind you, not unlike that allegedly for PKR's last party election, wakakaka. But let's leave that aside at least for this post or I'll be bogged down - I'll return to the issue of dodgy-ness in the polls in another post.

Yes you may not like this but to UMNO Najib Razak has been a HERO for winning GE-13 and saving the party from political doom as well as saving many rotten BN politicians from legal prosecutions for corruption etc.

I am really Ah Jib Gor
But please don't tell Rosmah or
she'll want to go SHAZAM-ing with me 

wakakaka

No doubt about it, he has been cunning, friendly, sneaky, warm, ruthless, indefatigable, Machiavellian, charming, everything he senses he has to be, and probably insincere as any snake oil salesman, but which makes him a successful politician, wakakaka.

For example, while Pakatan was making inroads in BN strongholds like Johor, he was quietly taking the back lanes and by-roads into Pakatan territory to successfully seize 7 seats from PAS in Titiwangsa, Kuala Selangor, Pendang, Padang Terap, Jerai, Sik and Baling and 8 from PKR in Balik Pulau, Bagan Serai, Kulim-Bandar Baru, Merbok, Machang, Ketereh, Tanah Merah and Hulu Selangor (won by PKR in 2008 tho’ held by BN in a by-election).

A 15-seat harvest which mitigated against the loss of 22 other seats to Pakatan!

Just imagine if he didn't succeed in the above, the final GE-13 tally would have been 133-15 = 118 versus Pakatan 89 + 15 = 104, a mere 14-seat difference or only a 8 seat majority to rule, which would have opened up all sorts of amphibious (wakakaka) ambitious possibilities for Anwar, wakakaka again.

He ripped back Kedah for BN and earned the undying gratitude of daddy Mahathir, while forestalling an anticipated 2nd Pakatan state government in Perak, probably much to the relief of someone I needn't name but who you all know anyway. He basically destroyed the putative northern 'Green Crescent' by winning Perlis, Kedah and Terengganu, and isolated PAS to only Kelantan.

He confirmed Sarawak as still a BN fixed deposit, yes very much to our disgust but remember he was fighting for his and UMNO's survival and we know a drowning man would grab at a straw, even one that looked like a white hair, wakakaka.

In the process he even enjoyed, perhaps not intentionally, the election failure of Ali Rustam, a potential and very dangerous rival to him in the UMNO leadership.

I reckon his principal failure was inexplicably standing a non-UMNO person Zulkifli Noordin in Shah Alam. That move had not only lost for BN the seat but probably caused an anti-BN domino effect in Selangor state which enabled PAS to double its state seats to 15 in Selangor's Malay Heartland, a traditional stronghold of UMNO.

Khairy Jamaluddin, UMNO Youth Chief, admitted: “Yes, you win some Malay votes in the process but you will also lose the support of moderate Malays in the process."

Maybe Najib's mitigation could be "Aiyah Tun, told you so he would be a disaster for us", wakakaka.

So ... what's this about his 'Chinese tsunami'?

Apart from Pak Kadir Jasin, some political analysts have stated even more precisely that the tsunami was not driven by ethnicity but by class.

In TMI’s GE13 an urban, not Chinese swing, say analysts Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin of UKM's Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA) said of Pakatan:

“They received Malay middle-class support, especially in urban areas.”

“So the DAP majority increased because of disgruntled Malay young voters’ support ... in conclusion, to label racial polarisation is too easy. Two other factors operate simultaneously with race: class (rich-poor, middle class) and spatial (urban and rural).”

What I have written about the new generation of Chinese Malaysians in Part 1 would also apply to the new generations of Malays and Indians who think more as Malaysians rather than as a member of their parents' ethnic group.

Indeed how could the Chinese, an ethnic group which makes up only 24% of Malaysians, effect a popular vote of around 52% for Pakatan? How could Lim Kit Siang win Gelang Patah with an almost 15,000 majority without support from the Malays there?

And the facts and figures go on and on to rubbish the so-called Chinese tsunami effect.

Of course Najib had to make an excuse to hide from his UMNO members the fact of urban middle-class and young Malays voting Pakatan. For the UMNO president, blaming it on the Chinese bogeyman was neat and convenient and would buy him time to address the problem, in the same manner as he has bought 5 years worth of time for himself and UMNO to do whatever he has to do to stay in power.

He is not known as a cunning fella for nothing. Much as many have predicted likely retributive measures against the 'ungrateful' Chinese for snubbing Najib and his BN in the polls, I believe he will continue his program of manmanlai-ing all ethnic and lobby groups, whether with sincerity or otherwise.

The reason why he had failed with the Chinese even though he tried to pamper them with their favourite issue of 'education' was that he left it until way way too late.

He might have succeeded in such an approach with Waythamoorthy, but not so with the more calculative and more cynical Chinese especially on a topic very close to their hearts. Very few Chinese would buy his eleventh hour promises because they would naturally have viewed them as nothing more than election pork barrelling which might not even be fulfilled, as per some of Dr Mahathir's promises to the Chinese in 1999.

If Najib really wants to win back the Chinese hearts for GE-14, he should be sincere (yes, I know it's hard for a politician, wakakaka) and start implementing his promises to the Chinese community now and certainly not the eve of GE-14 despite their lack of support for BN in GE-13. Give the Chinese and Indians adequate time to see he is truly a PM for all Malaysians, and they may take to him.

One Chinese secret for Najib - Chinese think very very long term, perhaps by the hundreds or thousands of years, and which may explain why their children's education is so important to them.

Of course the anger of UMNO's more conservative elements, provoked by insinuations and accusations of Chinese ingratitude from mainly BN media mouthpieces, has today been reflected in Utusan Malaysia front-paged headline “Apa lagi Cina mahu?" (What else do the Chinese want?).

you can also read how pissed off Ali Rustam is
but it's rumoured Kayveas is delighted, wakakaka

Utusan is known to be largely aligned with Dr Mahathir's faction so one wonders to what extent the angry headline reflects the personal feelings of UMNO king-maker who (like Ali Rustam) has stated the Chinese have been ungrateful.

He even preposterously alleged they have rejected the Malays' extended hand of friendship. What a terrible load of tripe!

It's also noteworthy Najib has avoided condemning Utusan, obviously not to offend Dr Mahathir and the right wing elements in his party.

But as reported by Malaysiakini, Khairy Jamaluddin said MCA must stay on in the government as part of Najib's reconciliation plan. Leng Chai warned his party members to stop calls for UMNO to form a government without representatives from the Chinese community just because most Chinese voters have ceased supporting the coalition. He said:

“I hope those saying just leave them and let’s take care of our race will stop. It will be tragic if we do not have any Chinese participation as it will further aggravate the situation.” 

“I hope the prime minister will continue to take this path and engage with the community. This is critical for the safety of the nation and also important for the realisation of his 1Malaysia vision.” 

“The only path is the middle path. If you succumb to the communal game, the reconciliation will not happen.” 

"I know the Chinese psyche. If you engage them sincerely, they will reciprocate. You have got to be sincere with them." 

How's you daddy?
How's your daddy-in-law?
f* him!
f* him too!

wakakaka

Well, re his last quote, he seems to know the Chinese better than MCA. I believe he once claimed (in 2008) his best friend was(is?) a Chinese, wakakaka.

One interesting question I have regarding Khairy is that now he has been re-elected in Rembau, apparently with thrice (or twice) his 2008's majority, will Najib continue denying him as UMNO Youth Chief a cabinet position?

I can answer the next question myself: Does Dr Mahathir still bear him a grudge? YES, wakakaka.

As Najib should be forming his cabinet shortly, let's wait and see.

I think I'll leave mention of DAP and PKR until the next post, wakakaka.

To be continued ... (maybe, wakakaka) ...

The Morning After - Part 1

Najib has finally got his 'mandate', though from PKR's view, under dodgy circumstances, wakakaka.

A shocked and by now broken hearted Anwar Ibrahim has cried foul as reported by TMI's Crying foul, Anwar disputes GE13 results and will not accept those damning election results.

It's also interesting to note than Pakatan has actually won the popular vote by amassing about 51% share of the total votes for GE-13 but been rewarded with only 40% share of federal seats, whilst BN with 47% of total votes garnered 60% of the 222 federal seats. Only once before in Malaysia's political history has a party with the majority of federal seats lost the popular vote, to wit, in 1969.

But this is a result of a combination of 'first past the post' contest combined with gross gerrymandering where in one federal constituency, only 15,000 registered voters can elect a MP to represent them in parliament while in another constituency, nearly 150,000 voters may only vote for also one MP to represent them. The voter in the former has ten times the say in parliament compared to his/her sardine-zed fellow Malaysian in the latter, who is perhaps a 'lesser' Malaysian.

The job of a truly independent impartial Election Commission, which of course doesn't describe the Malaysian EC, would have endeavoured to ensure the universal suffrage of 'one person, one vote' in a democracy, thus dividing the 222 federal constituencies into lots having an average of, say, 60,000 voters in each [some minor variations may be allowed but subject to justifications, etc].

Kapar would then be divided into Kapar East (or North) and Kapar West (or South) represented by 2 MPs while Putrajaya doesn't deserve to be be a federal seat by itself and would be subsumed under another Wilayah constituency or combined with Labuan as one.

But that's only a pipe dream as the ruling party will never allow such impartial professionalism to come about for the EC. Let me share a very closed secret with you - the EC is in fact UMNO's real fixed deposit, not just some pro-UMNO states.

Nonetheless, I would say, notwithstanding suspicions of UMNO's alleged 'creativity' with the alleged help of the EC, Najib has done well not to let the BN lose and, what more, also in regaining BN's control of Kedah and retaining rule in the Silver State, the latter very much to my surprise!

It's a truism of politics that political parties lose elections, not win them.

While Najib was assisted by the master strategist and tactician, his mentor Dr Mahathir, in not losing the votes of the Heartland, he wasted precious federal seats in overindulging the extreme right-wing element of his party by allowing two losers in Zulkuifli Noordin and Ibrahim Ali to contest.

Ibrahim Ali was undoubtedly a concession to his mentor, but I wonder for the life of me why he had chosen Zulkifli Noordin, an automatic loser from the moment the religious bigot was nominated.

Then he compounded his mistake by marginalizing Ong Tee Keat just on the words of a loser like Chua Soi Lek, a MCA man who lacked objectivity, impartiality and coalition interests insofar as his intra-party chief political enemy is concerned.

Najib was lucky not to lose despite wasting the 3 potentially winnable federal seats of Pasir Mas, Shah Alam and Pandan.

But f* gerrymandering and the popular vote because big business are elated with the BN victory. As TMI reported in its As results sink in, big winners are KL tycoons and Lynas as stocks rally:

Stocks surged as much as 6.8 per cent this morning and the ringgit jumped to a 10-month high, after Barisan Nasional (BN) extended its 56-year rule and fended off a strong opposition challenge that had unnerved investors.

The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index rose to a lifetime high of 1,808.90 by 9.02am in response to yesterday's general election, with stocks linked to the coalition and its favoured tycoons gaining handsomely, Reuters reported this morning.

Kowtim-ness has been preserved, wakakaka!

Ironically, in the midst of big business breaking open bottles of Dom Perignon, the biggest loser has been MCA, proving a point I made in another post that most Chinese business concerns have been bypassing MCA as they deem the Chinese political party as pretty useless in influencing the UMNO-led government on business and contracts.

And of course to some extent, a fellow loser to MCA is PAS, both of whom merit very little sympathy.

MCA has come to this nadir in its political life, again if I may add but worse than ever before, because of its own choosing. It's a bloody miracle it managed to secure 6 parliamentary seats when it could have lost both Labis and Bentong as well.

Be that as it may, Chua Soi Lek should not have indulged in merajuk-ing (sulking) fashion in attributing the disaster for his party into a disgraceful racial parting shot at its political nemesis, the DAP. It's not just sour grapes but poisonous langsat - indicating a bloody vindictive bangsat mindset.

The reason why MCA has lost so badly has been its reluctance to stand up for the community it claims to represent. As the post-election editorial in The Malaysian Insider said, MCA might as well dropped off the 'C' in its name. And MCA must suck on that!

MCA had believed it could continue to depend on the historically political passivity of the Chinese in Malaya-Malaysia for it to play an equally passive (and crumbs-begging cringing) role in the BN coalition, for the promotion and interests of its most influential lobby group, its crony the Chinese business towkays.

It failed and perhaps still fails to recognize that there is a new generation of Chinese Malaysians who aren't so beholden to the overseas Chinese doctrine of lying (politically) low and quietly working for the traditional 3 bowls of rice.

These new Chinese generation consider themselves first and foremost as Malaysians rather than Chinese and thus want a say in the affairs of this nation, as citizens of their own land. They resent being treated as pendatangs, but they resent even more an MCA which did nothing to prevent the humiliation of their classification as lesser Malaysians.

Needless to say, the new generation Chinese identifying themselves as Malaysians are loud, with some even vicious, vile and venomous, but that's the inevitable outcome of their pent-up feelings, right or wrong or somewhere in-between, of being humiliated, scorned and sneeringly dismissed for decades as pendatangs (thus lesser creatures) and even children of prostitutes.

Unless MCA changes to meet the expectation of the new generation of Malaysians, the party will through its political irrelevance become extinct when the weakening inertia of old loyalties to the Chinese-based party finally comes to a halt.

Yes, MCA lost the election to DAP. DAP did not win from them. And the most striking example of this was when Chua Soi Lek turned tail from meeting Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah and surrendered that MCA seat to UMNO as it had surrendered other seats to UMNO, Gerakan and even PPP. MCA had lost the elections way before 05 May 2013.

PAS!

There was so much promise in PAS, with the Erdogens showing the softer and more palatable welfare-oriented nature of Islam to a previously suspicious non-Muslims. But alas, the ulama camp within the party couldn't contain their true selves (their real colour) as they sensed overwhelming victory in GE-13, a sense that eventually proved to be incorrect as they forgot that the non-Muslim support was conditional on that softer side of Islamic governance.

They reverted to their passionate obsession with hudud which implementation even within the Muslim World is still being debated, but nevertheless insisted on its legislative implementation in Malaysia's multi-racial multi-religious secular democratic political system. Almost everyday we heard ad nausem of their hudud mantra.

PAS' interpreted Islamic values had also, by its intrusive interference in non-Muslim day-to-day affairs, given cause to many of its erstwhile non-Muslim friends to reconsider continuance of their support for a party which seems to have broken its promise of not applying Islamic laws, values and policies on non-Muslims.

In fact there were already more than adequate warning indications in Kedah of non-Muslim dislike, disgust and disappointment way way back but, alas, PAS unrepentantly continued along its arrogant way.

Many have also been shocked by its thuggish behaviour during the last few days of campaign before the election when its members aggressively confronted both PKR and PSM candidates over disputes in seat allocations such as in Sungai Acheh and Kota Damansara, etc. PAS had then frightened many non-Muslims and pissed off some Muslims by its members' feral behaviour. The non-Muslims' thoughts were "If they are like so now, good lord, what will they be like when they're in government?"

Again I stated that the truism in politics, applicable to both PAS and MCA, is that political parties lose an election, not win it. And that's why PAS lost Kedah and MCA several of its seats. People voted them out, a process which by default has benefited respectively UMNO and DAP (and to some extent, PKR).

Unfortunately for us, Mat Sabu became collateral damage.

As for a few BN losses especially in Johor, the state's former MB, Abdul Ghani Othman, should be conscious of this rather than blamed his and BN's losses on the 'irrationality of voters' (he meant Chinese voters) for voting based on emotions. He stated "Voting with emotion has caused polarisation to occur in Johor, especially in urban areas as shown in the results of 13th polls."

And this has been from a man who in late 2006, a mere 6.5 years ago, rejected the concept of Bangsa Malaysia as totally unacceptable because he stated publicly that a national unified identity was a threat to his cherished Ketuanan Melayu (Malay supremacy).

He even dismissed the Bangsa Malaysia notion as fostering a rojak of races in the country, presumably seeing it as a bastardized mélange by contrast to the superiority of unadulterated Malay race.

He would only grudgingly allow use of the Bangsa Malaysia term provided it was only applied with the Malays as the pivotal race of the peoples of Malaysia - essentially upholding the non-negotiability of Ketuanan Melayu and its Aryan-like concept of Malay supremacy. Thus to him, there could be a Bangsa Malaysia and a bangsa malaysia, with the former capitalised to indicate his pivotal race while the latter in lower case would be the 'nons'.

And he has the brazen nerve to pompously preached to us about polarization in Johor?

MIC!

Yes, MIC has in (relative) comparison to MCA done well, even though in two of the four seats it now holds, it scrapped through by a mere few hundred votes in each. But a win is a win, even if by one vote.

It's obvious many members of the Indian community still respect and support MIC, despite the party's known lack of care for its Indian constituency. But that would be their democratic choice.

Indians also enjoy the unique position, within the Malaysian context and thus to Malays, of appearing less threatening than the economically aggressive Chinese. Of course on the same token, Indians have suffered and may possibly still suffer at the hands of the authority more than Chinese. But that's for their community leaders to weigh and balance in the totality of their socio-economic-cultural-political situation  and work out, wakakaka, a blueprint.

To be continued .....

See the 2nd part of this post The Morning After - Part 2 published evening of 07 May 2013.