Majority ?
Perhaps, a sucker's belief in the self-deluded version
of the PAP meaning of majority.
The self-deluded majority can only be seen as a weak
majority.
This explains the desperate political acts to neutralize
Singaporean Political Rights by enacting legislations that make it
an illegal assembly of one in public protests, and to claim that
the Pledge is merely an "Aspiration", and that the contents in the
Pledge cannot be fulfilled at any time soon.
If you are knowledgeable about the validity of
any election process recognised by the International Community
- it is that a turnout in
participation that involved less then half the
population is always seen as
an invalid election process.
Statistics available showed that the Indonesia Population on July 2009 was estimated at
240,271,522 (*1).
In the recently concluded Indonesian Presidential Election 2009 - results
showed a total voter turnout of 121,504,481 (*2) - which
represent 50.569 per cent of the Total
Population (that included those below 16 years + PRs and
Foreigners).
In the Singapore scenario - Singapore Population in 2006 was a Total of 4,483,900
Singapore Residents and Non-Residents, or 2,973,091 Citizens,
290,118 PRs and 754,524 Non-resident population(*3)
The records of the Singapore Election 2006 (*4) had only
1,123,273 votes received from an Electoral List of 2,147,840
registered voters.
The number of 1,123,273 votes received
is 37.78
percent to the Total Population
of 2,973,091 citizens - which compares
dismally to the Indonesian participation rate of 50.57
percent of the Total Population.
Considering that Indonesia is spread across
over 1000 big and small islands, its ability
to get 50.57 percent participation from a
Total Population of 240,271,522 is even more
remarkable.
It will surely speak volumes of Indonesia's
determined democratic practices - that are devoid of the
sham GRC and political manipulation that is shamefully practised in
this tiny Little Red Dot.
Is there any reason for only 37.78 per cent Singaporeans
participating in Election 2006 ?
You may wish to know that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
stood as a Single Candidate - (a.k.a Zero GRC help) and received a
total of 73,874,562 votes which represent
60.80 per cent of the NATIONAL votes
cast.
Singapore PM LHL needed a GRC to help him get into political
legitimacy and received only 96,636 votes or
66.14 per cent of the 159,838 votes
cast in
AMK GRC, and losing 33.86 per cent to six new faces
from the Worker's Party.
The total number of votes received by the PAP in Election 2006
was 748,130 ballots - representing only
34.83 percent of the Electoral Roll of
2,147,840 Singaporeans.
Perhaps in your eagerness to malign Singapore you missed
the point of what I posted.
The majority of valid votes
casted.
Thats the voting process, anywhere.
Whether it a national election, or a local AGM the votes, it is
the votes casted that matters. Citizens or members of an
organization who are absent, or boycotted the process are not
counted.
You would do well if you compared the pros and cons of the the
Singapore parliamentary system against the
constitutionally elected head of state system of Indonesia. These
are two different system of electing the government.
Therefore the statistical comparision is flawed.
In any voting process, it is valid votes that are counted, not
the population.
