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GE-13 Outcome Difficult to Predict, says Dr. UMNO

March 30, 2012

GE-13 Outcome Difficult to Predict, says Dr. UMNO

by Melissa Lee, Malaysia Chronicle

Former Prime Minister (Tun) Mahathir Mohamad admitted which it would be difficult to envision a results of a 13th General Election due to a "confusing" signals received from a ground.

"What is certain, it won't be easy for BN to get two-thirds infancy this time. The Opposition right away is not similar to which of a past, as well as a stream situation is rsther than confusing," Bernama reported Mahathir as saying.

Such an acknowledgement must have been hard for Mahathir to make, since which a Pakatan Rakyat antithesis coalition is led by Anwar Ibrahim, who he has tried hard to chop down to distance as well as even reject from a domestic arena completely.

In 1998, fearing Anwar's popularity as well as flourishing poke with a Malays, Mahathir threw trumped-up sodomy as well as crime charges during his former Deputy as well as succeeded in jailing Anwar for 6 years. It was usually after Mahathir late which a Federal Court could summon sufficient courage to overturn a charges as well as justify Anwar.

Now 64, Anwar is poised to lead a Pakatan into a second General Election as a coalition. Although denied grave registration by a Registrar of Societies, a Pakatan parties of PKR, PAS as well as DAP have sealed a Common Policy Framework as well as concluded upon a joint declaration a Buku Jingga for GE-13 which is expected to be held prior to a finish of this ! year.

Gaining strength

Since a 12th General Election in 2008, a Pakatan has been gaining from strength to strength, with dual of a 4 states it governs Selangor as well as Penang praised by a Auditor-General as being a best managed. Both Penang as well as Selangor have additionally drawn many FDIs, trouncing a BN-ruled states.

A resurgent Anwar as well as Pakatan have been right away rated as carrying an even chance upon mending upon their 2008 electoral performance, with many pundits predicting they might even wrest a Federal Government from Prime Minister Najib Razak. Mahathir assumingly shares this view, observant which a assorted assumptions made about a support for BN were fluid, with a little people observant it was increasing as well as others observant otherwise. Mahathir did not indicate a finger during anyone, though a day ago, he called upon Najib to concede 'outsiders' to competition for seats underneath a UMNO ticket.

Mahathir lamented a shortage of 'smart' Malays in UMNO, for which maybe he is many to blame due to his warding off to alleviate his hardline position during his 22-year order from 1981 to 2003. Indeed, during his tenure, Malaysia gifted outrageous 'brain drain" including from a Malay community, though Mahathir had regularly dismissed a issue as teenager as well as with a 'let them leave if they wish' stance.

"None of Mahathir policies contributed to building a succession line in UMNO, so what is there to contend now. And a damage was not usually to UMNO though extended to a overall economy, where Malaysia lost bent over what it could afford. The effects upon a economy have been being played out right away as well as if not reversed soon by fresh policies ! as well as reforms, you can design serve all-encompassing deterioration," Ramon Navaratnam, a Chairman of a Centre for Public Policy Studies, told Malaysia Chronicle.

Najib unsuccessful to deliver

In recent weeks, former Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin had predicted BN would simply win in usually three states Johor, Melaka as well as Pahang. A large portion of a blame has been directed during Najib for failing to lead UMNO-BN out of a quagmire.

UMNO allocated Najib as a President in 2009 after forcing his predecessor Abdullah Badawi into early retirement for losing 5 states out of thirteen to a Pakatan as well as a BN's long-held two-thirds infancy in Parliament. Mahathir as well as alternative UMNO leaders had hoped which Najib would reverse a slip as well as recover a crucial two-thirds majority, which would concede them to rectify key laws to stay in energy for maybe a couple of more decades. But Najib's clumsy domestic maneuvers were soon deserted by a people, who right away see him as a fraud.

In his comments, it was revelation of Daim to indicate out which if Najib unsuccessful to improve upon Badawi's results, he would have to step down in favor of either his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin or a 'new challenger'. So far, no dark horse has emerged though bets have been upon which it could be Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who has lambasted Najib for his rambling policies as well as weak leadership.

During Najib's reign which began in April 2009, Malaysia suffered a misfortune bouts of racial as well as eremite intolerance. Extremist groups such as PERKASA as well as JATI were sponsored as well as authorised to flourish. At a same time, Najib preached p! olicies of mediation to a West. But it looks similar to even they have found him out, with a influential Washington Post slamming him as a "champion of double-talk".

Nonetheless, even with his mandate to order expiring in Mar 2013, Najib has one after another with a same strategies of passageway for liquid politicking against Anwar, regulating injustice as well as eremite prejudice to shock a Malays into voting for UMNO so which it can 'protect' them from a non-Malays.

Economy soothing as well as Corruption rampant

Meanwhile, a economy stays neglected as well as soothing due to Najib's frequent overseas trips which have been criticized for burning a hole in taxpayers' pockets. Corruption stays during a jot down high, with Malaysia slipping 4 spots to 60 in a 2011 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index. Malaysia scored 4.3 compared to New Zealand, a least hurtful during 9.5, as well as Somalia as well as North Korea who each scored 1.0, creation them a dual many hurtful nations in a survey. In ASEAN, Singapore scored 9.3 as well as Brunei 6.3.

Malaysia Chronicle