In GE13, BN wins Malay heartland, Pakatan the cities

By Jahabar Sadiq
Editor
May 06, 2013

BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak (centre) as good as alternative BN leaders raise their hands in triumphant upon a coalitions success in a ubiquitous election, during a PWTC in Kuala Lumpur upon May 5, 2013.

MAY 6 There have been two Malaysias. One from a Malay heartland which swung behind to Barisan Nasional (BN) upon Datuk Seri Najib Razaks 1 Malaysia debate to retake Kedah as good as run a country notwithstanding a not as large sovereign infancy in Election 2013.

The alternative is a multiracial Malaysia which gave some-more votes, sovereign as good as state seats to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) especially in cities as good as towns, reflecting a growing rural-urban divide of a fast-developing nation.

The record 80 per cent audience from a 12.9 million voters authorised to cast their ballots in yesterdays ubiquitous choosing as good as tighten results in BN victories reveal hardcore await for either coalitions, firming a thought of a two-party complement in Malaysia.

And a widely separated loyalties of a infancy Malays in between being beholden to BN which has grown Malaysia in its 56 years of unbroken order or taking a guarantee of equity from 3 parties campaigning opposite cronyism as good as crime which they blame upon a statute coalition. In a end, BN won 133 sovereign seats as good as Pakatan took 89.

I think they were taken in by a little of a undertakings given by a opposition... as good as thats why there was which swing.... as good as a lot of sentiments there, a little of them secular in nature, which were being played up in this election, which is not really healthy for this country, Najib told reporters during a Umno he! adquarte rs early this morning, before long after a elementary infancy victory cemented BNs place in Putrajaya.

I approaching it though I did not design it to this extent. None of us approaching it to this extent. But notwithstanding a border of a pitch opposite us, BN did not fall, he added.

But a 1 Malaysia debate won Najib await between a Malays, who form a vital part of a bottom 40 per cent which his administration has affianced to urge as part of a debate for a high-income nation.

The overworked Umno president has worked upon various initiatives, together with cash handouts as good as environment up an group to set up affordable housing for a urban bad unable to cope with rising living costs.

Najibs appeal as good as a initiatives have kept BN as supervision during sovereign as good as state turn nonetheless it only managed to get elementary majorities in states like Perak as good as Terengganu.

But BN additionally suffered waste in his Umno birthplace as good as bastion Johor, where a centrally-planned Iskandar corridor is attracting investments as good as regard between Malays which they could lose out to unfamiliar investors.

It was in Johor which a mini Malay pitch with a vital Chinese turn for PR which has assistance concrete a coalitions reason upon vital cities from as distant north as George Town by Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, Malacca as good as right away a southern states large towns.

The Chinese were a biggest pitch with assistance from a Malays, which afterwards cut our support, said Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed, who saw his 2008 infancy of 20,447 votes get cut down to only 3,200 in this years elections.

This has helped a DAP as good as PKR collect up seats for their nett increase in parliamentary representation for a next five years whilst PAS mislaid a couple of seats which most blame upon Malay votes adhering to BN as good as vice-versa, say analysts.

Yet, a especially Malay urban bad have deserted BN notwithstanding reception its of! ferings of affordable housing, rebates as good as handouts in foster of PRs speak of change as good as debate opposite cronyism as good as corruption, they added.

As can be seen in a latest elections, where Malays as good as Chinese in a cities have come out in droves to await a antithesis whilst those in a farming areas continue to vote BN.

The Malay pitch for BN has additionally been limited as a bloc only won 275 of a 505 state seats up for grabs, leaving a estimable 230 state seats to PR.

It isnt a competition war, its a category war, said an researcher who declined to be named, adding which Kedah went behind to BN some-more due to PASs incompetence than BNs appeal to a state folks.

The distribution of a state seats will uncover you which PR is removing await from a wider range of people, not only a single competition or a single place, he added, observant BN will have to study both sovereign as good as state results for destiny campaigns.

He said a solid loss of sovereign seats as good as await is a regard for BN as it would need to reconstruct a coalitions ranks to take upon a incumbents in a next contest.