12th General Election.
The date has been set, now all that we are waiting for is the competition to begin. Election Commission (EC) today announced that the Nomination Day will be on the 24 February 2008 (Sunday) and 13 days later will be the Polling day on the 8th March 2008 (Saturday). Honestly, I was quite surprised that the campaign period has been extended to 13 days, considering the trend for the past few General Election (GE) was less than 10 days (8 days in 2004).
For your information, during the 11th GE, Barisan Nasional (BN) won 198 seats from 219 seats contested at that time. And for this year’s election, there will be 222 seats up for grabs by all competing parties. I am beginning to wonder how will BN do this time considering this is the first election that all races in Malaysia actually have issues with the current government. If you have been reading around, you would see that the Malays are very concern about the rising cost of living and alleged corruptions within the government. The Chinese are concern about where the Malaysian economy is heading amid anticipation of the US economy recession. While the Indians, are apparently concern about them being sidelined by the government.
However, I think BN will try to ride on the ‘Economic Corridor’ wagon since it is quite obvious that the government launched all the Economic Corridor before calling up the election. This means, the content of the BN manifesto would revolve around the idea of giving them the chance to work all the corridors for the benefits of the people. After all the grand launching of the Economic Corridors all around the country, it is expected that most Malaysians would want to see the outcome of it, hence, another big victory for BN.
Whatever the wagon the competing parties are trying to ride on, I just hope that the RAKYAT will vote with conscience and vote for the right candidate.
I found this video on YouTube. Have fun watching it!
For your information, during the 11th GE, Barisan Nasional (BN) won 198 seats from 219 seats contested at that time. And for this year’s election, there will be 222 seats up for grabs by all competing parties. I am beginning to wonder how will BN do this time considering this is the first election that all races in Malaysia actually have issues with the current government. If you have been reading around, you would see that the Malays are very concern about the rising cost of living and alleged corruptions within the government. The Chinese are concern about where the Malaysian economy is heading amid anticipation of the US economy recession. While the Indians, are apparently concern about them being sidelined by the government.
However, I think BN will try to ride on the ‘Economic Corridor’ wagon since it is quite obvious that the government launched all the Economic Corridor before calling up the election. This means, the content of the BN manifesto would revolve around the idea of giving them the chance to work all the corridors for the benefits of the people. After all the grand launching of the Economic Corridors all around the country, it is expected that most Malaysians would want to see the outcome of it, hence, another big victory for BN.
Whatever the wagon the competing parties are trying to ride on, I just hope that the RAKYAT will vote with conscience and vote for the right candidate.
I found this video on YouTube. Have fun watching it!
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