A Pakatan tsunami can hit Johor



Johor is a last bastion of a BN, yet a entrance ubiquitous choosing might infer which a fortress might spin out to be merely a sand castle.
If Pakatan Rakyat gets a await of 35 percent Malay, 80 percent Chinese as well as 50 percent Indian electorate in Johor, twenty parliamentary seats will tumble like dominoes.
And, therefore, Pakatan might well gain a much-needed 112-seat threshold to form a next federal government, with only a seats from Peninsula Malaysia.

In a dual rounds of chair re-delineation exercises in 1994 as well as 2003, many multiethnic mixed seats were combined for BN to maximise a multiethnic appeal as well as to have a many out of a opposition's incapacity to win across racial boundaries.

NONEThe BN-controlled media done PAS to be seen to a non-Malays as an anathema to their interests, while DAP as a hazard to a Malays. Before 2008, PAS supporters frequency voted for a DAP as well as vice-versa.

The 2008 ubiquitous choosing saw PAS benefiting from outpouring Chinese as well as Indian await for a "anything yet Umno" call while a little urban Malays voted for DAP for a initial time in their lives. Many multiethnic seats in a states north of Negeri Sembilan as well as upon a west coast of a peninsula fell to a opposition.

How Pakatan can win Johor


Sabah as well as Johor are a dual many crucial battlefields in a 2013 election. While Sabah attracts estimable attention, it could be hampered by chair traffic as well as team-work between a antithesis groups. Johor is where a BN member might tumble like dominoes.

Of Johor's twe! nty-six parliamentary seats, usually eight have some-more than 60 percent Malay votes which will be harder to win with a stream turn ! of await for Pakatan. No chair in Johor has some-more than 60 percent Chinese voters.

On a a single hand, without twenty-five percent Malay support, even if a non-Malay pitch to Pakatan is huge, a entire movement might only fizzle out with really couple of seats gained. Pakatan perceived usually about twenty percent Malay await in Johor during a 2008 ubiquitous election.

On a alternative hand, if 35 percent Malay electorate await Pakatan in this election, anything could happen. While it is tough to get 35 percent Malay support, it is never impossible.

I am told which a new opinion check shows Malay await for Pakatan in Johor to have exceeded thirty percent, yet a await varies between parties. The await for PAS is much higher than normal while DAP's Malay await is reduce than average.
Working together a pass to victory
The check additionally shows which await for Pakatan from a Chinese is around 70 percent, yet it varies between a member parties, with DAP exceeding a normal while PAS removing reduce than average. The check shows a await from Indians about be about 50 percent.

azlanAs a choosing approaches,I hold a gaps will narrowif PAS as well as DAP, with a assistance of PKR, are means to remonstrate supporters to opinion for each alternative in a context of a coalition.

From a purely mathematical simulations, this draft upon a left indicates a possible scenarios in Johor. This is based upo! n a assu mption which Indian await for Pakatan is constant at 50 percent.

Of course these are only simulations upon paper. But it shows which Barisan Nasional's castle might crumble if a perfect charge comes in to shape. It is additionally a uninformed tsunami alert from a people of Johor to a supervision who refuses to reform.
LIEW CHIN TONG is a member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera.
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