Written by Dr Lim Teck Ghee Tuesday, twenty-four Apr 2012 11:06
CPI Writings
With a general choosing imminent, a single pass subject stays yet unanswered: Will a Barisan Nasional apply oneself a result of a polls as well as safeguard a pacific passing from one to an additional of power?
This is a sixty four thousand dollar sensitive subject unasked in a repressed mass media, mostly unexplored by political analysts, never-to-be-publicly wondered but lurking in a thoughts of many endangered Malaysians.
One exception to a unwritten order of never posing such a politically improper subject took place in a private lunch talk organized by a Royal Selangor Club (RSC) for its members early this year. The January twelve eventuality featuring Prime Minister Najib Razak as orator had captivated an audience of more than 200.
An RSC part of (who identified himself as a son of a former long-serving staff of Najib's father! , a late Tun Abdul Razak Hussein) asked a following towards a finish of a talk:
"Mr Prime Minister, would you have a passing from one to an additional of a government for Pakatan a smooth a single if a antithesis wins a next general election?"
According to a little of those present, after a little perplexity a budding minister responded: "I do not have to answer that question" or words to that effect; following that he during once left, ostensibly for an additional function.
Why did a Prime Minister not respond?
The PM might have felt that he was not equates to to answer a subject for multiform reasons.
One, he might have lost his wits after being completely taken off guard.
Two, he might not be equates to to oath a pacific passing from one to an additional of energy despite being personally pacific to concur should a electoral result foster a opposition.
Three, he himself might not be inclined to permit a pacific passing from one to an additional of power.
Historical record upon energy transition
Most people have been wakeful that a BN, as well as earlier, a Alliance parties, have a long, unblemished as well as unrivalled record of utilizing a choosing formula through inherent as well as alternative means. This is why they have remained in energy for over 50 years.
Aficionados of a bravery of a statute bloc in in progress a choosing formula have been mostly rapturous recalling a systematic manipulation of a electoral rolls, malapportionment as well as gerrymandering of constituency boundaries, carry out of a media, as well as a long list of alternative unfair as well as exploitative practices, together with tampering with a constitution.
Even Dr Mahathir Mohamed in 1970 prior to he became budding minister was moved to write in The Malay Dilemma: "The manner, a magnitude as well as a! trivial reasons for altering a constitution marked down this autarchic law of a nation to a useless throw of paper".
During multiform periods of a story of state as well as federal elections, we have additionally seen how a Alliance as well as BN parties have resorted to their trump card of using indeterminate 'constitutional' equates to to remain in power.
PM's open declaration needed
Several months after that disconcerting encounter during a RSC, Najib as well as his senior Barisan colleagues again have a event to answer that subject as well as put to rest any doubts about a pacific passing from one to an additional of energy as well as system of administration change.
We have seen that a ultimate electoral remodel beginning for fair as well as purify elections has been hijacked for a role of scoring political points for a incumbents forward of a coming elections so that true electoral remodel still stays a mirage.
Although a odds have been in foster of a BN victory, it is important that a statute bloc provides a declaration prior to Malaysians go to a polls that if a inconceivable happens as well as they have been defeated, Najib as well as his Umno men will apply oneself a result as well as safeguard a pacific passing from one to an additional of power.
In 1971 following his assumption of energy through puncture rule, Tun Razak noted that "So long as a form [of democracy] is preserved, a piece can be changed to suit conditions of a particular country"
Whether Najib could presumably step in his father's footsteps as well as we might see story repeat itself in a imposition of a little form of puncture order following (or even preceding) a 13th general choosing is a single that needs to be clarified publicly as well as unequivocally.
Respecting a Constitution
It needs to be stressed that a Federal Constituti! on is cl ear upon a right of Malaysians to elect a government of their choice in a giveaway as well as fair election.Upon a retraction of Parliament, it becomes a fundamental, legal as well as inherent avocation of a caretaker budding minister, Najib Razak, to apply oneself as well as conform a autarchic law of a land.
Not on condition that an answer to assure a open that a autarchic law of a land will be reputable might be construed as a critical inherent offence.
Should a soundness not be supposing prior to a choosing takes place, Malaysians have a right to subject a moral as well as inherent fitness of a serving PM as well as his party.
Finally, it would be doubly reassuring if a head of a military as well as a military can reinforce a budding minister's statement upon a pacific passing from one to an additional of energy as well as oath that they will serve a nation regardless of that political celebration is during a helm.
Kerajaan Selangor aniaya Peniaga Kompleks PKNS - Najib 13/1/2012
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