By Anil Netto
PENANG - Is Malaysia headed for an orderly or tumultuous political transition? Despite widespread popular concerns about the potential for electoral fraud and irregularities, political analysts believe Prime Minister Najib Razak is poised to call snap polls in the coming months while his approval ratings are high.
Last month, a member of a Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reform disclosed that an audit of the electoral rolls revealed some 200,000 dubious registered voters. The audit, undertaken by Mimos Bhd, a government-owned technology company, found more than 10,000 cases where more than a dozen individual voters resided at the same listed address.
Political analysts suggest those phantom voters could be enough to swing what are expected to be tightly contested polls. At the last general election in 2008, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition retained power with 52.2% of the popular vote. With voter turnout of 8.7 million, some have suggested that bogus electoral rolls helped BN notch its simple majority win over the Anwar Ibrahim-led Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition.
Read more...PENANG - Is Malaysia headed for an orderly or tumultuous political transition? Despite widespread popular concerns about the potential for electoral fraud and irregularities, political analysts believe Prime Minister Najib Razak is poised to call snap polls in the coming months while his approval ratings are high.
Last month, a member of a Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reform disclosed that an audit of the electoral rolls revealed some 200,000 dubious registered voters. The audit, undertaken by Mimos Bhd, a government-owned technology company, found more than 10,000 cases where more than a dozen individual voters resided at the same listed address.
Political analysts suggest those phantom voters could be enough to swing what are expected to be tightly contested polls. At the last general election in 2008, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition retained power with 52.2% of the popular vote. With voter turnout of 8.7 million, some have suggested that bogus electoral rolls helped BN notch its simple majority win over the Anwar Ibrahim-led Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition.
ooppss!!... The 13th General Election will be the most crucial election, as most people said. Several issues played by the oppositions. The time has come where the government should not only rebuttle what the oppositions have said but should dance along to their tunes.....time for the government to ploy what the oppositions have done...spin back their words or rather put back the condemnations into their mouths. Let them swallow all those condemnations.
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