Malaysia Before Election 2008- what you must know malaysia

Email ini saye terima berkaitan dengan pilihanraya malaysia 2008
antara berita senssi harakah, dan barisan nasional;

HERE ARE THE FACTS WHY WE CANNOT GIVE THEM 2/3 OF PARLIAMENT

1. Barisan lost 2/3 majority once, in 1969. Only briefly.

2. Since 1957, it has amended the constitution 690 times to propagate its
power. By comparison, USA which is more 200 years old has only amended its
constitution 27 times; Singapore as little as only 4 times.

3. Barisan's ability to amend the constitution as it likes (and make
unjust and unfair constitutional changes) must be stopped now.
Here's the statistics from the 2004 election:


1. UMNO received 35.9% of the popular votes but has 110 parliamentary
seats or 50% of all parliamentary seats.

2. In total, Barisan received 63.8% of the popular votes but has 199
parliamentary seats or 91% of all parliamentary seats.

3. The opposition received 36.2% of the popular votes but has only 20
parliamentary seats or 9% of all parliamentary seats.


4. Why? Because of gerrymandering, or unfair election rules. The election
rules are stacked against the opposition. No matter what happens, the
opposition will never, I repeat, will never be able to win the next
election.

Here's the decision-making power process within our present cabinet

1. UMNO not only controls the parliament via Barisan, it has allocated
itself 24 cabinet positions or 71% of all cabinet positions.


2. MCA has 5 cabinet positions or 15% of the cabinet positions.

3.. MIC has 1 cabinet position or 3 % of the cabinet positions.

4. Gerakan has 1 cabinet position or 3% of the cabinet positions.


5. Other component parties hold 3 cabinet positions or 8% of the cabinet
positions.

6. The opposition with 36.2% of all the popular votes is not given a
single cabinet position.


One should take note that although UMNO controls 50% of all parliamentary
seats, it controls 71% of all the decision making processes within the
cabinet.

4. Many marginalization issues or unfair election practices are the
result of legislations passed by Barisan (lead by UMNO) unchecked in a
dominant Barisan parliament. Under the Barisan Party whip system, the
majority component party within Barisan will dictate the rules of the
game. Other Barisan component parties like MCA, Gerakan or MIC cannot
vote against what UMNO decides in whatever it likes, even if they wanted
to.

5. Best part is this: even if the opposition won all the seats it
contested, no single opposition party can form the next government.
Why? Gerrymandering (of the present election borders) has ensured that
even if Barisan were to win 50% of the popular votes in the upcoming
election, it will still control 2/3 of parliament. As an example, in 2004
Barisan took 64% of the popular votes but ended up controlling 91% of
parliament. It is easy to see why if they win only 50% of the
popular votes in the next election they will once again be able to dictate
absolute power in the parliament.

And Zam the Ram, Minister of Information has to gall to protest to
AlJazeera TV that Malaysia is democratic because it has elections!

What cheek!!! Are these fair elections? Is this truly democracy??

Is it truly Malaysia Boleh? More like Malaysia Malu!

Do your maths ... and do your part...

That's why EVERY SINGLE VOTE AGAINST BN COUNTS!!!