The Malaysian Insider

PKR is investigating the results of 27 federal seats that Barisan Nasional (BN) won with a razor-thin margin in Election 2013 and where electoral fraud has been reported in most of the seats, Rafizi Ramli said today.

The PKR strategy director noted that the party’s #siasatPRU13 team, which he is leading, has received 237 reports from the public on vote-rigging like voters not being allowed to cast their ballots because others had already done so in their name, vote-buying, unidentified voters registered at certain house addresses, flawed indelible ink, foreigners suspected of being given ICs and subsequently voting, as well as Election Commission (EC) officials signing the Borang 14 before vote-counting or not providing copies of Borang 14 to counting agents.

“From our analysis, 27 federal seats will be investigated: Bentong, Kuala Selangor, Baram, Sungai Besar, Pasir Gudang, Labis, Machang, Ketereh, Titiwangsa, Tebrau, Bagan Serai, Kota Marudu, Beaufort, Setiawangsa, Segamat, Ledang, Balik Pulau, Kulim Bandar Bharu, Pulai, Kuala Kangsar, Muar, Pendang, Hulu Selangor, Sabak Bernam, Merbok, Pensiangan and Saratok,” Rafizi (picture) told reporters at the PKR headquarters here.

“Except for Hulu Selangor and Machang, all other seats have got reports,” he added, referring to reports of electoral fraud.

BN retained power in the May 5 general election with just 133 federal seats, 21 more than the 112 required to win a simple majority.

Rafizi said his team shortlisted the 27 parliamentary seats based on four criteria: a margin of victory of less than 5 per cent, spoilt votes exceeding the margin of victory, postal votes and early votes exceeding the margin of victory based on normal votes, and reports of vote-rigging.

He pointed out that in Balik Pulau, for example, his team has received photographic evidence of BN agents providing voters vouchers that could be exchanged for cash.

Rafizi said 19 of the 27 disputed seats were contested by PKR, pointing out that those hotly-contested seats were mixed seats with Malays forming between 60 and 70 per cent of the electorate.

He noted that vote-rigging would have the biggest impact in seats with slim margins of victory, saying: “Fraud can only bring in maximum 2,000, 3,000 votes.”

Rafizi said his team has 67 volunteers, comprising mostly lawyers and accountants, who will record evidence from complainants this week.

“Once we go through the whole process, we’ll bring up our case to the People’s Tribunal,” he said, referring to the tribunal set up by polls watchdog Bersih to examine evidence on electoral irregularities.

Rafizi added that election petitions would be filed by the end of the month, but said he did not expect favourable verdicts.

“The main problem is the existence of phantom voters. But as long as one has an IC and his name is in the roll, he’s a legitimate voter,” he said.

“What is important is creating the momentum, awareness and disgust among the people on how various methods of cheating by BN were used to skew the results,” he added.

Thousands of Malaysians from various races and ages flooded recent PR rallies in Petaling Jaya, Penang and Ipoh to protest against alleged vote-rigging in Election 2013 and the legitimacy of the BN government.

Rafizi also noted today that electoral fraud was detected in federal seats won by PR like Pandan, which he himself had won, Lembah Pantai and Selayang.

Malaysiakini

Following successful Black 505 mega-rallies in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, large crowds gathered tonight in Medan Istana, Ipoh for a similar mourning against alleged electoral fraud.

Eyewitnesses contacted by Malaysiakini told of a crowd size up to 30,000, many of whom were dressed in the trademark black.

“Speeches are now ongoing on stage and the crowd is about 30,000. It is peaceful andsemangat (in high spirits),” said one of the rally’s participants Sandrea Ng when contacted at about 9pm.

Previous events in Kelana Jaya, Kuala Lumpur and Batu Kawan,Penang had drawn crowds of about 120,000 each, while another event is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Kuantan, Pahang and Johor Bahru, Johor respectively.

The rallies are protesting against alleged fraud and misconduct in last Sunday’s general election.

Among the speakers slated to speak at today’s event, which started at about 8pm, include PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and former Perak Menteri Besar Nizar Jamaluddin.

The venue tonight is also just outside the PKR Perak headquarters and near the state secretariat building.

Although the police said they have not approved the rally, organisers said the authorities were not interfering with the event.

“There are police personnel around, but so far they are not giving any problems,” said Teja assemblyperson Chang Lih Kang when contacted.

Former appeal court judge Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah’s racist speech puts the Klu Klux Klan to shame and makes Hitler proud.

How long more are we to tolerate such hate mongering and race baiting from the illegitimate Najib government?

While UMNO sows the seeds of hatred and discord, we in Pakatan Rakyat will shower this nation with goodwill and mutual respect, and in doing so foster peace and understanding in our society.

Let’s all stand shoulder to shoulder and remain united. To Malaysians – thank you for coming out tonight in Ipoh and showing these zealots what being Anak Malaysia means.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

The Malaysian Insider

Dressed in black and her hair flecked with blonde dye, Geetha looked like she was likelier to enjoy her Saturday night at a club rather than a rally.

But she was one of thousands of youths who walked for miles to the Penang state stadium in mainland Batu Kawan last night for the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) rally to protest last weekend’s general election results.

The crowd was mainly young and multiracial, some who wore hotpants and some in headscarves, but all were in black and carrying party flags to listen and cheer PR leaders explain their dispute with the results.

“I didn’t want to miss this, so I made sure I am here,” she chatted while walking down the road narrowed by haphazardly parked motorcycles, cars and lorries to the stadium.

She and the thousands at the stadium are the first-time voters who most likely voted for PR rather than the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) in the May 5 general elections.

Although BN took back Kedah and its lynchpin Umno gained nine more federal seats to 88 compared to Election 2008, the ruling coalition only took 133 parliamentary seats in Election 2013 against the 140 five years ago.

In elections for 12 state assemblies, BN only took a combined 275 seats in Election 2013, down fro 306 five years ago – reflecting PR’s rising popularity especially among the youths, who form a major part of the electorate.

Some 13.3 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots in Election 2013, reflecting a jump of 3.4 million voters from the 2008 general elections. An estimated 40 per cent of the total electorate are below 40, says the Election Commission (EC).

The BN government had been targetting these youths in the run-up to the polls, allocating some RM100 million for its 1M4U campaign to attract youths. It had signed up beauty queens and pop singers as ambassadors and even set up a radio station for them.

Another initiatives included a rebate scheme for smartphones and RM250 cash handouts for those earning below RM3,000 apart from providing almost free motorcycle driving licences to them.

There were also social media campaigns through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to get the youths to support BN apart from activities organised by component parties and news coverage in the mainstream media.

Most of the crowd at the stadiums in Kelana Jaya and Batu Kawan are within that target market for BN but from their buzzing vuvuzelas and cheers that rocked the stadiums, their hearts and minds lie with PR.

“We need change. It is pure and simple,” said Sunny Lim, as he waved a giant PAS flag in the stadium in Batu Kawan.

“We are young, we are colour-blind and we want a good government,” he added, joining his friends in a lap around the stadium to cheers from the stands.

He and the others there are BN’s challenges in the next five years, to go beyond cosmetic changes and walk the talk in a society that is getting younger and willing to forgo a good night out for political rallies.

Watch the rally here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sGchEx2TxYQ

KENYATAAN AKHBAR

SETIAUSAHA AGUNG PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

KEJAYAAN MEMPERTAHANKAN KERAJAAN PAKATAN RAKYAT  SELANGOR DAN PERLANTIKAN MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR

Parti KEADILAN Rakyat memanjatkan rasa syukur kami ke hadrat Allah SWT di atas kejayaan Pakatan Rakyat mempertahankan negeri Selangor dalam Pilihanraya Umum ke-13 baru-baru ini. Kami juga ingin merakamkan ucapan terima kasih dan penghargaan kami dan rakan-rakan sekutu dalam Pakatan Rakyat terhadap para pengundi khususnya dan rakyat negeri Selangor amnya kerana telah memberikan kepercayaan mereka kepada Pakatan Rakyat untuk menerajui kerajaan negeri Selangor buat penggal yang kedua.

Bagi pihak KEADILAN, saya juga ingin merakamkan penghargaan kami kepada pimpinan Pakatan Rakyat negeri Selangor, juga kepada jentera ketiga-tiga Parti KEADILAN, PAS dan DAP yang telah bertungkus lumus dan penuh komited dalam amanah yang dipikul untuk memastikan kepercayaan rakyat Selangor terus diberi kepada Pakatan Rakyat.

Kejayaan ini juga disambut dengan penuh rasa tawaddhu’ dan rendah diri, terutama dalam proses untuk menamakan seorang Menteri Besar bagi memimpin kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor dalam pentadbiran negeri. KEADILAN sesungguhnya amat berbesar hati dan menghormati sokongan oleh PAS dan DAP yang telah bersetuju supaya jawatan Menteri Besar Selangor dinamakan dari Parti KEADILAN Rakyat.

Berteraskan kepada prinsip konsensus dan rundingan serta semangat kesetiakawanan dan kerjasama yang selama ini telah tersemai dalam Pakatan Rakyat, KEADILAN telah mengangkat dua (2) nama dari kalangan Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri KEADILAN yang berjaya memenangi kerusi mereka dalam pilihanraya umum Negeri Selangor baru-baru ini kepada pimpinan PAS dan DAP untuk dibincang secara bersama dengan KEADILAN bagi memilih salah seorang daripada mereka untuk dinamakan sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor.

PAS dan DAP, menerusi Presidennya Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Tuan Guru Haji Abdul Hadi Awang dan Setiausaha Agungnya Yang Amat Berhormat Tuan Lim Guan Eng masing-masing telah bersetuju supaya Yang Berhormat Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Abdul Khalid bin Ibrahim, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Pelabuhan Klang untuk  diangkat sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor dan meneruskan khidmat cemerlang beliau menerajui pentadbiran kerajaan Negeri Selangor sebelum ini.

KEADILAN dengan ini menyeru supaya keseluruhan rakyat Negeri Selangor khususnya dan rakyat Malaysia amnya untuk terus menggembeling semangat kerjasama dan setiakawan antara satu sama lain tanpa mengira agama, bangsa dan warna kulit yang telah selama ini ditunjukkan, bagi terus memastikan agenda perubahan rakyat  dapat diteruskan bersama-sama dengan Pakatan Rakyat.

Sekian, terima kasih.

SAIFUDDIN NASUTION ISMAIL

SETIAUSAHA AGUNG

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

10 MEI 2013

Malaysiakini

Selepas kejayaan ‘menggelapkan’ Stadium Kelana Jaya, Selangor dengan lautan manusia berbaju hitam yang mempertikaikan keputusan pilihan raya, pembangkang kini merancang meluaskan kempen itu ke lebih banyak negeri.

Pengarah Strategi PKR Rafizi Ramli berkata, dalam tempoh seminggu bermula esok, mereka merancang empat perhimpunan sama di Bukit Mertajam (esok), Ipoh (12 Mei), Kuantan (14 Mei) dan Johor Bahru (15 Mei).

“PKR yakin bahawa suara rakyat ini perlu dibawa dan diperjuangkan. Tindakan menerima keputusan pilihan raya yang ditentukan oleh penipuan dan pengundi warganegara asing ini mengkhianati hak dan suara rakyat,” katanya.

Dalam kenyataannya hari ini, Rafizi berkata, perhimpunan yang dikenali “Black505″ itu sebagai tanda penolakan terhadap dakwaan “penipuan pilihan raya” oleh Datuk Seri Najib Razak dengan pimpinan atasan SPR.

Beliau juga berkata, PKR menubuhkan dua pasukan utama untuk menangani gerakan menolak keputusan pilihan raya dan pasukan panel penyiasat yang diketuai beliau sendiri.

“Hasil dari siasatan ini akan digunakan untuk memfailkan petisyen pilihan raya di mahkamah, selain dari tindakan khusus terhadap individu yang terlibat di dalam penipuan pilihan raya termasuklah tindakan undang-undang terhadap mereka,” katanya.

Skop tugasan dan mekanismenya akan diumumkan esok.

The Malaysian Insider

Kedudukan Ketua Pembangkang perlu setaraf dengan jawatan menteri, kata Penasihat DAP Lim Kit Siang (gambar) hari ini merujuk kepada siri pembaharuan Parlimen beberapa hari selepas Pilihan Raya Umum 2013.

“Pertama sekali, Ketua Pembangkang di Parlimen perlu diberi status menteri sebagai komitmen untuk mempromosikan dan demokrasi di Parlimen,” kata Lim ketika sidang media di Ibu Pajabat DAP di sini.

Beliau turut berkata Ketua Pembangkang yang kini daripada Pakatan Rakyat (PR) perlu diberi penghormatan penuh dan dirujuk penuh berhubung perkara berkaitan Parlimen.

Jelas Lim, Ketua Pembangkang juga perlu menerima jumlah elaun serupa seperti kebanyakan menteri Kabinet, termasuk kereta rasmi sebagai “kelebihan.”

Lim juga turut berkata, jawatan itu juga perlu disediakan sekurang-kurangnya dua setiausaha politik, seorang setiausaha sulit, dan tiga pembantu penyelidik.

Selain itu, Lim turut menuntut peruntukan tahunan RM500,000 kepada semua ahli Parlimen, tidak terhad hanya kepada ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN), seperti yang menjadi amalan biasa.

Ahli Parlimen pembangkang juga kata Lim turut mengetuai Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) bagi menyelia penggunaan dana awam.

Malaysia jelasnya sentiasa melantik ahli Parlimen kerajaan bagi mengisi jawatan terbabit.

Peruntukan individu RM500,000 itu hanya boleh digunakan untuk menjalankan tugas selaku ahli Parlimen, tanpa sebarang salah guna, yang mana jelas Lim boleh dikenakan tindakan penyingkiran daripada Parlimen.

Ahli Parlimen pembangkang juga kata Lim turut mengetuai Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) bagi menyelia penggunaan dana awam.

Malaysia jelasnya sentiasa melantik ahli Parlimen kerajaan bagi mengisi jawatan terbabit.

Beliau turut menegaskan, fungsi PAC adalah membuat semakan terhadap perbelanjaan kerajaan sekiranya berlaku “salah guna dana, ketirisan, dan penipuan” dengan laporan tahunan menjadi penanda aras untuk pentadbiran yang baik.

“Tetapi di Malaysia tiada siapa peduli berkenaan laporan PAC, kerana tanpa pemimpin pembangkang, PAC tidak dapat melaksanakan tugas mereka dengan berkesan,” kata ahli Parlimen Gelang Patah itu.

Veteran itu turut mencadangkan agar undang-undang dan peraturan mewajibkan menteri hadir ke Parlimen dan menjawab soalan kecuali mereka tidak berada di dalam negara.

“Ini paling tidak bertanggungjawab,” katanya.

Beliau turut meminta siaran langsung prosiding Parlimen disiarkan supaya pengundi boleh melihat calon yang dipilih dan masa yang lebih diperuntukkan untuk setiap wakil rakyat berucap di Parlimen.

Ditanya sama ada DAP akan mengambil kedudukan sebagai Ketua Pembangkang ekoran jumlah kerusi yang dimenangi mereka lebih banyak, Lim berkata mereka masih memilih Ketua Umum PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk jawatan tersebut.

“Saya telah mencadangkan Anwar kekal sebagai Ketua Pembangkang kerana beliau adalah calon Perdana Menteri untuk Pakatan Rakyat.

“Walaupun kami masih belum berjaya ke Putrajaya, beliau adalah calonnya,” kata Lim lagi.

Watch Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s speech at Kelana Jaya Stadium last night :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYRTZt10r70

Malaysiakini

Selayaknya pemimpin yang bercita-cita besar tetapi tewas seperti Anwar Ibrahim berasa kecewa dan tidak berpuas hati.

Beliau segera menggerakkan penyokong Pakatan Rakyat ke stadium Kelana Jaya malam ini, hanya tiga hari selepas pilihan raya umum berlalu, sebagai bantahan simbolik.

Tokoh PKR itu tidak seperti pemimpin-pemimpin parti pembangkang yang lain, ketewasan dalam pilihan raya umum tidak disusuli dengan fasa menjeruk rasa dan bersantai selama beberapa bulan.

Anwar segera bangkit – jika dipandang sepintas lalu, kesegeraan yang tampak berang dan meroyan – satu gejala “politik baru” pembangkang.

Namun, beliau tidak kecewa dan meroyan seorang diri. Perdana menteri yang gagal ditumbangkannya Najib Abdul Razak juga kelihatannya masih terkejut dengan keputusan awal pagi Isnin lalu.

Hakikatnya, prestasi BN bawah pimpinan beliau jatuh merudum berbanding Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, yang diserang oleh Dr Mahathir Mohamad selama beberapa tahun sebelum Mac 2008.

Selain Mahathir sendiri, Najib malah turut dibantu oleh sekutu-sekutu mantan perdana menteri itu, Daim Zainuddin (kiri) dan Sanusi Junid.

Namun, kemerosotan BN tidak dapat dihalang-halang lagi. Seperti arus deras, ditahan di utara (Kedah), melimpah pula di selatan (Johor) dan timur (Terengganu dan Sarawak).

Bagaimanapun, Najib patut bersyukur kerana masih dapat mengangkat sumpah sebagai perdana menteri dalam keadaan kerajaannya menikmati majoriti “agak selesa”, 22 kerusi parlimen.

‘Madu & racun di tanganmu’

Tetapi perdana menteri rupa-rupanya masih tetap kecewa dan nada meroyannya – meroyan gaya orang menang – akibat kekecewaannya itu disebut “tsunami Cina”.

Sehari selepas itu, akhbar-akhbar milik Umno mengukuhkan lagi kesasauannya dengan melaungkan slogan meroyannya itu.

Utusan Malaysiadi muka depannya semalam bertanya “Apa lagi yang Cina mahu?”, sementara tabloid sekutunyaKosmo!menuduh pengundi kaum itu sebagai “talam dua muka”!

Najib dan Umno membangkitkan isu perkauman atas sikap pengundi itu yang meninggalkan parti-parti komponen BN itu secara besar-besaran.

Maka, dikatakan ia satu “polarisasi” trend pengundian yang memerlukan “national reconciliation”, perukunan semula hidup bernegara.

Seperti slogan 1Malaysia Najib yang menguatkan pertubuhan PERKASA, malan tokohnya diberi peluang mewakili BN, “national reconciliation” diikuti cercaan akhbar-akhbar Umno terhadap Cina.

Di sisi ini, lagu sindiran Anwar terhadap Najib mungkin ada benarnya: “madu di tangan kananmu, racun di tangan kirimu, aku tak tahu mana yang akan kau berikan padaku. Aku tak tahu, mana yang akan kau berikan padaku.”

Lagu popular Indonesia yang sering dipentaskan Anwar ini dijawab oleh Najib sewaktu kempen pilihan raya lalu di Sabah.

Perdana menteri menjawab: BN-lah madunya, sementara Pakatan Rakyat-lah racunnya.

Menang jadi arang

Sebab itu pula pengundi mengekalkan status quo pilihan raya umum 2008 (kecuali tambahan tujuh kerusi parlimen): Pengundi “tak tahu, mana yang akan BN atau Pakatan berikan padaku”.

Maka, Najib dan Anwar tidak faham kebingungan rakyat ini. Perdana menteri menyalahkan Cina, Pakatan menyalahkan sistem pilihan raya.

Selayaknya begitulah nasib kedua-dua tokoh ini yang sudah terkena sumpahan “menang jadi arang, alah jadi abu”. Kedua-duanya dibakar hangit oleh pengundi.

Tetapi di pihak Najib dan Umno, Cina pula dijadikan arah sumpahannya.

Seperti Umno sering menyalahkan Melayu sebagai “pengkhianat bangsa” atau “tidak bersyukur” apabila pengundi kaum itu sendiri meninggalkan Umno dan mengkritik kerajaan BN.

Seperti Mahathir menuduh penentangnya dan Gerakan Reformasi 1998 sebagai “ejen negara asing” sewaktu kepimpinannya dipersoalkan habis-habisan.

Polarisasi antikerajaan, propembangkang

Dia perasan dan mengangkatkan dirinya sebagai “Malaysia” dan penentangnya “orang asing”.

Seperti Umno perasan dialah Melayu dan membayangkan Melayu itulah Umno. PAS itu bukan Melayu dan sebagai sumber perpecahan serta pengkhianatan bangsa.

Tetapi sewaktu Cina berbondong-bondong menyokong MCA atau Gerakan, tidak pula kaum Tionghua dituduh mengamalkan “polarisasi” trend pengundian!

Tidakkah itu satu bentuk “polarisasi” juga apabila Melayu hanya menyokong Umno atau PAS; dan Cina menyokong DAP atau MCA?

Polarisasi ini, kalau inilah istilahnya, hanya polarisasi arus antikerajaan BN dengan arus prokerajaan BN.

Jadi, kenapa harus Cina pula dijadikan sasaran? Untuk menakut-nakutkan Melayu? Melayu mana yang ingin ditakut-takutkan itu – Melayu atau Umno?

Yahoo! News

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (R) speaks during a rally in protest of the Sunday’s election results at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur May 8, 2013. At least 40,000 supporters of Malaysia’s opposition held a rally near Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday to protest alleged vote fraud, with Anwar vowing to the crowds he would expose the cheating he says cost them an election win.

Reuters UK

The White House on Wednesday congratulated Malaysia’s prime minister on his coalition’s election victory but urged the government to address concerns about election irregularities.

“We note concerns regarding reported irregularities in the conduct of the election, and believe it is important that Malaysian authorities address concerns that have been raised,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. “We look forward to the outcome of their investigations.”

Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional coalition extended its 56-year rule but recorded its worst-ever election performance in Sunday’s election. His party won 133 seats in Malaysia’s 222-member parliament, seven fewer than in 2008 and short of the two-thirds majority it had hoped for.

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s People’s Alliance won 89 seats, a big increase from seven in 2008. Anwar has said the result was tainted by electoral fraud and scheduled a large rally in Kuala Lumpur to press for electoral reforms.

The Malaysian government rejected charges of electoral fraud and has accused Anwar of seeing to cause unrest with the rally.

The election was one of the most closely contested in Malaysia in years and Najib is expected to face a party leadership challenge that may cost him his leadership by the end of the year because of the weak showing.

He had hoped to strengthen the ruling coalition’s majority in parliament with the help of a strong economy, reforms to roll back race-based policies and $2.6 billion in spending programs benefiting poor families.

Najib is now seeing as having a difficult time in persuading his allies to press ahead with economic reforms and the phasing out of policies favouring ethnic Malays over other groups.

Malaysiakini

While BN basks in the good news that it has ‘won’ the 13th general election, I’m delighted to see how much bad news this crooked, lying regime has to face in its moment of ‘triumph’.

In other words, though my hopes have been dashed that some kind of miracle might occur to rid Malaysia of this chronic curse this time around, I’m absolutely elated at the fact that it was such a pyrrhic victory for Najib Abdul Razak and his gang of nasties.

Survival with seven fewer federal seats than Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (left) achieved in 2008 is absolutely pathetic considering the fraudulence of the electoral system, the countless billions thrown around in pork-barreling and bribery, and the combined might of the mendacious mainstream media.

And way beyond pathetic is Najib’s immediate blaming of the Chinese Malaysian community for his failure to steal back the two-thirds majority he and his accomplices so desperately craved.

In achieving over 50 percent of the vote, Pakatan Rakyat clearly attracted a great deal of support from Malaysians of every race and creed, especially in most of the relatively enlightened and prosperous urban centres.

Paradoxically, it was the very people who BN has systematically contrived to keep poor, ignorant and thus grateful for peanuts in handouts who voted them back into office.

That portion of the population still innocent or ignorant enough to believe that selling their votes for cash is some kind of entrepreneurial coup, and that the pack of lies they’re fed by BN’s ‘mainstream’ media could possibly be true.

While, no thanks to BN but rather over its dead body, urban Malaysians now have access to genuine news online, it is an absolute disgrace to the regime’s claims of progress that there are millions of Malaysians to whom the Net is still just the thing you sleep under to keep thenyamuk from biting you in the night.

No wonder such deliberately-disadvantaged people neither know nor care that for decades they’ve been fed false promises and pacified with chicken-feed while BN has systematically looted the nation’s treasury and resources and destroyed its civil institutions.

What’s great news for the rest of us, however, and very bad news for BN, is that urban Malaysians are abandoning the regime in overwhelming numbers,.

Thus rendering Najib’s ‘victory’ as hollow possible by depriving him of the prizes he so dearly, indeed desperately wanted. Selangor, for a start, where BN has been even more comprehensively slaughtered this time than back in 2008, and Penang where the regime has suffered a similar fate.

Well deserved wipeouts

Then there are all the triumphs that Pakatan scored on an individual level. It was fantastic to see Nurul Izzah Anwar prevail despite the regime’s throwing everything at her; to see Lim Kit Siang not only win but achieve a landslide in a seat in Johor; and to witness the well deserved wipeouts of the Malacca chief minister Mohd Ali Rustam and the candidates fielded by Perkasa.

And speaking of wipeouts, it was an absolute joy to witness the eagerly anticipated near-annihilation of Umno’s ever-compliant partners in the BN crime syndicate, the MCA, MIC and Gerakan.

While these parties have at least thus far been quite humble or at least fatalistic in defeat, Mohd Ali(left) has been loudly lamenting the ingratitude of the voters who deserted him in such droves.

According to BN ‘news’ agency Bernama, he “lamented” that “voters, especially the Chinese, did not appreciate all the services and efforts undertaken by the BN government in developing the state and safeguarding the welfare of the rakyat”.

What Mohd Ali failed to mention, of course, was the possibility that the voters, both Chinese and otherwise, had doubtlessly recalled how little they appreciated the arrogant contempt he demonstrated for their welfare on the occasion of his elder son’s marriage some months ago.

As you’ll recall, and as the voters of Malacca surely did, Mohd Ali invited so many guests that he claimed it was a Malaysian if not world record for a wedding crowd, and had the bills for the entire affair sent to the state government.

Another sore loser for whom it is hard to feel a shred of sympathy is Johor BN chairperson Abdul Ghani Othman (right).

Smarting from his crushing 14,762-vote defeat in Gelang Patah parliamentary seat by Lim, he blamed people who had “cast their votes based on their emotions”.

How the voters are expected to remain unemotional in the face of one massive BN scandal after another, he didn’t attempt to explain. But whatever, emotions are still running very high indeed among Pakatan members and supporters at the outrageous illegalities committed by the regime before and during the general election, and blithely condoned by the crooked Election Commission.

Blatant gerrymandering has delivered BN about 60 percent of parliamentary seats with less than 50 percent of the popular vote. And even this minority of votes for BN was achieved with a blend of alleged bribery, fraud and rigging of the electoral rolls and postal votes.

What Malaysians can or will do about being thus robbed of the change of government they so clearly craved is anybody’s guess. Challenge the result in the BN-biased courts? Stage Bersih-style public rallies in support of demands for a re-run, in defiance of the BN-biased police?

Meanwhile, we all wait to hear the possible ultimate bad news for Najib, if not BN in general, from the eternal and ever-malicious PM-behind-the-scenes Dr Mahathir Mohamad (left).

As gratified as he surely must be by the success of son Mukhriz in the general election, and as relieved to be spared facing justice at the hands of a Pakatan government, he’s likely to be very unimpressed indeed by Najib’s abject failure to win back BN’s cherished two-thirds majority.

So BN and its supporters had better enjoy the good news while it lasts, because they have so much bad news coming to them, from both inside and outside their ranks, that they’ll wonder why they ever bothered engineering this fake ‘win’ – and may even come to regret it.