In addition to the consistent exploitative utilisation of the state machinery by the ruling coalition during elections to garner votes for itself, other provisions in the law have also been abused to tilt the playing field.
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The success of Malay-based political parties in Sabah and Sarawak would not have been possible without biased re-delineation practices. The rural weightage principle (a double-edged sword) would have become the Umno-led coalition’s absolute trump card were it not for the opposition PAS.
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In Jamaica where one finds mixed-race people with Afro hair incongruously teamed with slanted eyes, Dr Boo Cheng Hau learned to live as a world citizen rather than as firstly a Chinese or a Malaysian.
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The Election Commission seems to have been relegated to being a mere executor administrator of the electoral system, always having to take its cue from the ruling government. As things stand today, the room for abuse is alarmingly wide.
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One betrays the cause of the Indian poor when he pretends that for every Indian poor there is a Chinese poor just as badly off. And that a Malay or a Muslim poor is under ‘equal’ duress as the Indian poor.
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