Huge crows at all the Black 505 rallies
Three weeks has passed since the GE13,
nine Mammoth Black505 rallies have been organized all over the country with
over ½ million people mainly youth have gathered in large numbers to protest
the fraudulent elections which resulted in BN with less than 47% of the popular
votes taking over the federal government, forcing the PR with over 51% of the
votes back into the opposition.
The EC has been blamed for its lopsided
attitude to help BN win by its unscrupulous and undemocratic means. The
opposition parties are producing all forms of convincing evidence. These
include open bribery, abuse of power by the caretaker government, a media that
is one-sided in favour of the incumbent, phantom voters, foreign voters, abuse
of early and postal votes, unusual blackouts at counting centres during the
tallying of votes, mysterious ballot boxes being sent in late into the counting
centres, and the most obvious cheating with the indelible ink which was easily
washed away after voting.
Despite all the evidence and hundreds
of thousands of people coming to protest, there is yet any definite response
from the EC or the BN government. Such silence is a sign of total disrespect
for the rakyat.
Instead of making efforts to address
the people’s grouses the government has adopted a confrontational stance,
arresting those who organize the rallies that are peaceful and legal. Such
high-handed and intimidating tactics will only further aggravate the people’s
anger towards the EC and the government.
The fact that the EC knew about the ink
being not indelible but kept quiet about it is tantamount cheating the voters
and that is itself enough to make the GE13 results null and void. If it was
faulty then they should not have used it and make a
mockery of the most important democratic process and make a fool of the voters
who took the GE13 so seriously to make the voter turnout the highest in the
history.
The people had placed so much importance on this election but they were taken for a ride by the EC. How can the EC take things so lightly when it was pointed out they have cheated the people?
Even now after more that 1/2 a million people
taking to peaceful rallies to vent their frustrations and anger over being
cheated of their votes, the EC does not appear to be perturbed. What kind of EC
is this? What more does it want from the people?
The people had placed so much importance on this election but they were taken for a ride by the EC. How can the EC take things so lightly when it was pointed out they have cheated the people?
Even now after more that 1/2 a million people
taking to peaceful rallies to vent their frustrations and anger over being
cheated of their votes, the EC does not appear to be perturbed. What kind of EC
is this? What more does it want from the people?
The people have put
forward two demands; firstly the EC must immediately resign en block and a new
EC appointed with people of high
integrity and secondly the new EC must conduct new elections, free and fair, in
the 30 or so seats which were won by BN by dubious means.
Until these demands
are met the opposition with the solid support of the rakyat have wowed to
continue the fight for electoral justice by all peaceful means available to
them within the law. From the determination and enthusiasm showed by the people
at large it looks like they are not going to give p their fight easily.
The ball is now at the court of the EC
and BN govt. They have to think very carefully of their next move as they are
dealing with a young but matured and anti-racist rakyat who cannot be fooled by empty promises
or cowed by confrontational threats. The best way out for them is to in give to
the wishes of the people, which will be good for all parties.
Giving
in to the wishes of the people is a sign strength and victory not weakness and defeat.
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