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Instant citizens: Umno wins, whole country loses

Recent alternative media news reports suggest that the Election Commission (EC) and the National Registration Department (NRD) are working hand-in-hand in a population re-engineering scam. This is due to the fact that there is evidence of the existence of phantom voters, cloned voters and 'instant citizens'.

This malaise if allowed to continue unchecked will certainly serve to hijack the nation's economic pie as well as debunk the neutrality of the public institutions such as the EC and the NRD whose code of ethics must surely demand that they act neutral at all times.

The proliferation of phantom voters as well as cloned voters due to the 'instant citizens' easily obtaining MyKad and getting to vote as their names are instantly registered in the voter rolls, negates the one man-one vote system as it becomes a free-for-all where the party who has immense financial clout is able to manipulate the voting results in their favour through the buying of votes.

Population re-engineering occurs when the nation's demographics are drastically altered due to manipulation. And this is what is happening here. This manipulation may even endanger national interest if the ever-shrinking economic pie due to large slices being given to cronies has to be shared with a large and sudden increase in population.

It is just too much of a coincidence that the registering of legal and illegal foreign workers using the biometric system is held before the coming 13th general election which is reported to be just around the corner.  

Foreign workers becoming instant citizens/instant voters can only happen with the tacit approval from the powers-that-be, i.e. the government of the day, which happens to be the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

The citizenship given to these foreign workers in exchange for a vote for BN is akin to selling the nation's rights at the drop of a hat.

That this is happening on a daily basis is a great cause of concern for the nation's citizens and must definitely not be condoned but instead must be brought to the attention of the Yang Di Pertuan Agong who is mandated with safeguarding the sanctity of the federal constitution.

 

Selena Tay Gaik Hua is a DAP member from the Segambut branch.

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