YOURSAY 'The work is not complete until the nation is cleared of all the phantom voters and the illegal voters be taken off the list.'
My work is not done yet, says Anwar
Kim Quek:
Bravo, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim. You have made the right decision. Yes, your work "is not done" until you have sorted our this mess about our election.
No free people can tolerate their right to choose their government being robbed by corrupt leaders. Our entire election system has become so rotten and the playing field is tilted so badly that it is virtually impossible to unseat the corrupt incumbent power through the current electoral process.
Yes, we will make the cleansing of our election the top priority, and a prerequisite to reforming our country. We will make this our ‘jihad' until the work is done.
Absalom: In GE13, 5.6 million people voted for Pakatan Rakyat and 5.2 million voted for BN. This despite all the money and goodies splashed out by PM Najib Razak and all the cheating, including phantom votes and illegal ICs voters and various other tricks employed.
However, Pakatan got 89 seats while BN secured 133. Do you think BN really won? Congratulations Anwar Ibrahim, you have won the popular vote, you should have won the election but you were, as you said, cheated out of it.
Abasir: Yes, Anwar, your work is not done yet. You have managed to galvanise right-thinking Malaysians in a way that no other has ever done.
For that reason alone, you should stay on the job, nourish the many emerging leaders we have seen and keep hammering away at the citadel of evil represented by those who engineered the elections on Sunday.
Remember the words of MK Gandhi when he spoke of tyrants: " ...for a while they will seem invincible but eventually they will fall."
Ablastine: Anwar and all the top generals in PAS and DAP, you cannot retire yet because the country still need all of you as your work is not done yet.
Pakatan has not lost but cheated of victory. The popular votes have exceeded 50 percent - that means despite all the fraud the results still showed that more people supported Pakatan than BN.
There is a grudge in the heart of every of Pakatan supporter knowing this fact and the fact that the country has to go through another five more years of destruction before any chance of salvation can come.
The next five years will see more informed younger voters coming online but the country and people will be much poorer. I certainly hope that Pakatan takes more counter measures against all the loopholes in the election and comes up top.
It needs more than 51 percent popular votes. It needs more than 75 percent and the election boundaries need to be redefined or gerrymandering will continue.
Be Fair: Anwar, Malaysians are behind you. A majority of them voted for you and Pakatan Rakyat, which also shows they have rejected BN's race-based system.
This is not a Chinese tsunami otherwise Pakatan wouldn't have popular vote of more than 50 percent (Chinese being only 25 percent of the population) throughout Malaysia despite widespread electoral fraud.
All races rejected BN but as usual Umno is trying to go back to their SOP (standard operating procedure) by blaming the Chinese in order to create havoc and to try to entice more Malays to their side, which I believe will backfire.
James1067: The work is not complete until the nation is cleared of all the phantom voters and the illegal voters be taken off the list.
The EC have to be free from supporting or working together with any political party and being bias in their work.
When you go to war you move forward, not backward. From 2008 to 2013, there have been more ground conquered. even though the battlefield was not level.
Against all the odds, offer of billions of ringgit, skewed reports by the local media, and all the unethical games played by the EC, police and other government agencies, yet more ground was covered.
Anwar, the nation needs you more than ever for the final assault.
Magnus: As I see it, the first-past-the-post mechanism appears to work well to get the right results when the principle of ‘one citizen, one vote' is adhered to and applied through the weighting given to the available constituency seats making up a legislature.
So I find it perverse logic under a first-past-the-post system for determining the result of democratic elections to allocate an equal weighting of one seat/one MP to a parliamentary constituency made up of circa 16,000 registered voters (as in the case of the 15,798 eligible voters in Putrajaya) as to one that has more than 100,000 registered voters, as in the case of Gelang Patah with its 106,864 eligible voters.
This is why the perverse logic that logically leads to undemocratic situations where one party can win the popular vote but still lose by not winning enough seats in the legislature to form the government.
Clever Voter: The first-past-the-post electoral system may not be fair if the popular votes are taken into account. One possible way is to redraw urban boundaries where you have electoral limits of up to 70,000-80,000.
Despite the many cases of fraud and phantom voters, Pakatan succeeded in bringing down a number of big guns and racist politicians.
But PKR needs to reassess its strategy to re-engage the rural and semi urban folks. The urban-rural divide is so obvious. Reassessing its people strategy is necessary against a well-resourced BN machinery.
For this to happen, PKR needs money, brain, stamina and patience. Anwar is not getting younger so are his comrades, and they need to rebuild their next generation of leaders. Nurul Izzah is our next best bet, and she needs mentoring.
Swipenter: Many people believe that Pakatan is bigger than Anwar and they are right. However Pakatan still needs Anwar and he is absolutely right to say his work is not done yet.
He has done a marvelous job of cementing Pakatan as a credible force to be reckoned with by the present corrupt, cheating and racist regime.
Age is not important barrier to break the political hegemony of Umno. Look at the de facto Umno president cum PM. At 86, he still advocating racial and religious hatred. Indeed, his job of dividing us is not done yet despite more than three decades of his divide-and-rule.
Hang Tuah PJ: Anwar, I am not taking this GE results lying down. And I don't want all of you to accept defeat so easily. I am not waiting another five years. I want something done now.
LittleGiant: Anwar Ibrahim is, no doubt, getting older and will be in his early 70s by GE14.
But wasn't Nelson Mandela already 76 years old when he became the first black president of South Africa? Wasn't he imprisoned for 27 years and yet had the resilience to demolish the walls of apartheid and took charge to lead his nation at quite an advanced age?
Anwar should continue to speak for the 51 percent of the country's voters who chose to be with his Pakatan and should pursue his reform goals more vigorously than ever.
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