DAP is reaching out to Malaysians who are contemplating abstaining or spoiling their vote as a protest at the 14th general election.
The party’s secretary-general, Lim Guan Eng said those who are unhappy with the current political situation should take their grouses to the party, instead of boycotting the polls.
“They can send their views to DAP. I have already asked my people to compile all the feedback,” Lim told The Malaysian Insight.
He said he would personally study the grouses after the Chinese New Year.
Political parties on both sides of the divide have recently voiced concern over ongoing social media campaigns encouraging voters to boycott or spoil their vote in the coming elections.
The posts and comments, mainly voicing unhappiness at the political parties, are accompanied with the hashtags #UndiRosak, #SpoiltVote, #ProtesPRU and #GEProtest.
Lim, who is also Pakatan Harapan deputy president, said he was also open to hearing the people out in dialogue.
“No matter how busy we may be, we will have to make time to listen to the people.
“We want to discuss and understand their source of frustration. I think they have lost hope.
“But we feel that one should never give up. Once you give up, they win. Who wins? Those in the ruling clique. The status quo will remain.”
Lim said he did not view those who wished to abstain or cast spoilt votes as a threat to the opposition, but rather, as a waste.
“Whether they want to protest or not, it is their democratic choice. But we are saying the people must choose.
“Not choosing is not a choice at all. Any movement to boycott (the polls) is actually a waste of one’s vote, a dead end,” the Penang chief minister said.
He said by boycotting the polls, voters would waste their chance to send a message to the ruling elite.
“If you do that (boycott), BN will always be in power. It gains nothing except benefiting BN.
“We are not saying we (the opposition) are the best, but we are still better than BN,” he said, adding that the people must make a choice if they wanted to be part of progress and benefit from the country’s resources. – February 5, 2018.
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Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply
I don't know why people keep equating the undi rosak movement with people giving up or people disrespecting democracy. Undi rosak is a legitimate democratic act. The relationship between leaders and people is called a mandate, and in a democracy, mandate is given by the followers to their leaders via election. If we the people give a 2/3 or majority to the leaders, it means we gave them a huge mandate. It means we are saying " leaders, you have our absolute trust. Do what you think is right, and we will support even if we don't understand you fully, because we believe in you." If the leaders has a huge mandate, they can make big decisions quickly because the people will back them. If many of us are rosak-ing our undo however, what the people are saying to whoever wins is "joe, this is a country so somebody has got to lead it, but just because it happens to be you don't let it get to your head, coz we don't really think that highly of you or your capabilities, and we are not really going to go where you want to take us. We think things are going to get from bad to worse, and we think there is nothing that you can do about that except to make it worse . Whatever you do, tread carefully - don’t make big decisions, just make small decisions, and even then, do it slowly. We are not with you - we will deal with our problems ourselves to the best of our abilities, but if you screw up with this undi rosak we want to tell you, that we are going to leave you hanging high and dry. Be warned.” We can't always give a strong mandate to our leaders in a democracy. Sometimes, like in the situation we are in, where all we have is two pathetic option, there is nothing wrong in giving our leaders a weak mandate.
If we really
Posted 6 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply