Abdullah is a very nice person - with qualities many lack -
humility, gentlemanly, real concern for the country and its people
and a genuinely good leader - anyone whom has met him in person
would know this - he is not incompetent, he just lacks full control
over every faction in his own party. You can't win a fight against
corruption, etc. on your own - no matter how high up you are -
because you still need the backing of your party
Problem is, most Malaysians seem to not understand that - insisting
on instant gratification without thinking about whether the means
to such ends would be justifiable and if so whether it would be
feasible. For example, denouncing the administration for not doing
enough to weed out corruption by themselves keep feeding the
corrupt practices - bribing corrupt officers or officials (to be
fair, there are those who were arrested for attempted bribery) and
then telling the government that its not doing enough. There is
only so much the government can do, the rest is up to the people
themselves, if the people stop feeding the corrupt beasts, then
these practices would obviously stop. If you have committed an
offence for example speeding above the speed limit, then just pay
the fine - it may cost more but you are doing your part to weed out
corruption in the country - then you can justify your complaints -
same goes for businesses
The opposition - starting to lose confidence in them - just look at
the states they are governing - take for example The Right
Honourable Mr Lim Guan Eng of Penang - all he seems to ever want to
do after the GE is just talk and talk and talk and grace the pages
of newspapers blaming the administration of Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon
- don't see him doing anything much at all besides that.
What has he in plans to increase and more importantly
retain investments for the state? What is he going
to do about the ridiculous skyrocketing (pardon the pun -
DAP's logo is a rocket) property prices in the state of
late (does he know that most people in his own state can't afford
to buy houses or even apartments in their own home state) - can you
imagine when KL based developers flooding the state with incredibly
high end developments at prices locals (most Malaysians included)
cannot afford? Most developments now cost upwards of RM 1
mil even for condominiums, there seems to be shortage for even RM
300,000 apartments - something ordinary Malaysian can actually
afford. So many promises made, what is actually being done? I don't
expect instant rectification or gratification, but at least show us
what you intend to do - that would suffice until you start
implementation
What's more? Moving in to Rumah Tetamu (the chief minister of
Penang's official residence along Macalister Road, the name Rumah
Tetamu means 'Guest House') when he said he did not want to
initially. So the police did advice him to move in to the official
residence on security basis but previous CMs had always lived in
their own houses, despite security concerns. He could just inform
the State Financial Officer and the State Assembly that he does not
intend to take the allowance given to him in place of living in the
official residence, thereby saving taxpayers' money (as he
advocates)
In all, the government needs to get its house in order and the
opposition needs to its own house in order too. And to Tian Chua,
defecting MPs are not democratic change of government. In a
Westminster parliamentary system, you vote for the party not the
individual
Hypothetically, if Anwar succeeds, he needs to dissolve parliament
immediately and hold fresh elections to determine the will of the
people or he would be seen as nothing but a power-crazed politician
hell bent on becoming PM. For now, he has the benefit of the doubt.
And to add a note, even if the oppostition does form government,
they still have to face the Senate which is controlled by BN with
only 10 Senators from Pakatan (2 from each of the 5 states they
control - that is, if the BN Senators' terms have expired since the
election, otherwise they would have 2 Senators from Kelantan only)
- and they would definitely exercise their veto powers in the
Senate to shoot down bills from the lower House of Representatives
- so his reforms might not even work out that fast - which means
the Malaysian public would then say the same thing about his
government
But for Abdullah, he still has the peoples' mandate to govern -
afterall, a simple majority is still a majority government. The
people have given BN the privilege to govern, so the opposition by
right should just wait till the next GE for all this hoo haa of
theirs and prove that they can govern the 5 states first - and in
the meantime adhere to the will of the people which was proclaimed
through the ballot box. The government should get on with its work
of governing
