The Aftermath

Saturday, April 5h, March, 2008
It's exactly a month after Malaysia's 12 th General Election today and I have not yet posted any comments on the important issue to be shared with fellow Malysians.

The result of the election, as some coined it as political tsunami, has brought tremndous or gargantuan tranformations of the political scenario to the country. Thanks God, the National Front is still in power.

This blog is share my perception on how and why the National Front, headed by UMNO, fared badly during the election. I will express my analysis on how and why the ruling party failed to garner 2/3 majority in 3 words: over confident, complacent and arrogant.

The party having ruled this beautiful country for 1/2 a century, have practised accomodation and solidarity in their ideologies. Unfortunately, this time around the party has made gross errors in choosing their candidates in the the 12h election.

Hence the problem of not winning 2/3 majority started from here. So I classify this problem as intra adnd inter party problems in the National Front. Firstly, the memebrs of the ruling party have forwarded their respective choices and forwarded them to the Presidents of the coilition paries. Somestimes their nominees were disregaded by their presidents. Thus the nominees who were not chosen to stand during the election were the first stumbling blog to the success of the party. This issues did not stop in UMNO, it happened to the others in the collition; MCA, MIC, GERAKAN, PPP and the other Sarak and Sabah parties too.

The dropped nominees were the thorn in the flesh to the campaign machineries. By right, the rejeced candidates must serve the party rather than their personal commitments. At the peak of the campaign, these trouble makers did not contribute to campaign to help the running candidate, but they were abstaining themselves from the pary's machineries and worst still some of them had fed the opposition parties candidates wth the weaknesses of the candidates or he party itself. This did happened among the NF where, son-in-law, brothers, nephews and kins were chosen over the well deserved and experienced stalwarts.

Meanwhile I catogerise the other issue as interparty issues among the NF. All parties were trying to put their candidates at favoured constituencies based on racial composition, mutual agreement aand historical record. We could hear that UMNO wanted MCA's seat and vice versa amongsed the the parties. This issue had caused NF its 2/3 majority.