CITIZENS’ RIGHT TO HOLD POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLE
TO DELIVER ELECTION PROMISES & GE13
Elections are opportunities for politicians to convince the electorate why they should vote for them. Politicians do this by making promises and declarations of how the will make life better than their opposition politicians. GE12/TSUNAMI 2008 created a whole new landscape in Malaysian politics. Ordinary citizens are now more concern and engage themselves in issues and concerns that affect them and their families.
The cry for change by the oppositions gave much hope for the rakyat, and many voted for change. The BN after GE12 promised reforms to please the dissatisfied voters who voted opposition. Now just half way between the supposed GEs, we hear of a an impending snap General Elections! Neither the BN or PR have delivered their promises for change and reforms. PR Selangor Government have faced enormous sabotage by civil servants, the latest being the State Secretary appointment.
As a Selangorian, I appeal to fellow Selangorians to register our displeasure on the over-politicking by both coalitions and demand that both should take the remaining period of their tenure of their respective governments. What both the BN & PR coalitions should be concentrating is how to manage Federalism. The BN will never enjoy the total dominance they had in the past. The PR politicians have a greater responsibility that as perpetual oppositionists, to try to learn to govern the states they won since 2008.
To call for a GE13 at this stage of the nation’s transition to a more matured democracy is very irresponsible and waste of public funds. Funds that need to be use wisely and prudently, especially when the global economy is so unstable. We, as Rakyat, must hold all politicians accountable for their actions. As stakeholders who put the politicians where they now, we demand that they perform, make the necessary changes and reforms before thinking of calling for elections.
The Selangor Pakatan government need not call for state elections till 2013. The Selangor Pakatan should be humble enough to work with so many Selangorians who have offered their expertise and services to help the rookie ADUNs, MPs, Councilors and more importantly the State Exco members who have made one blunder after another.
As for the Selangor State Secretary appointment, it has been clearly revealed that the former State Secretary sabotaged the whole process by withholding the proposed names from the MB. The solutions is so obvious, but because of over-politicking many choose to be blind. Since the Federal Appointed former State Secretary made the blunder, the Chief Secretary can rectify the situation by declaring the appointment of Khusrin null and void. Then the proper process and conventions need to be followed. Why should the rakyat and the PR Selangor Government have the accept the consequences when it was the BN Federal Government employee who made the blunder. I rest my case.
Aloysius Francis Pinto
9 January 2011
