WHO WILL THE CHINESE VOTERS SUPPORT?

THE CHINESE VOTERS are at a crossroad. So claimed Barisan Nasional leaders. And this mean that majority of the Chinese voters are still undecided as to which side they would throw their support in the soon-to-be-held general election.

But this writer feels otherwise. The Chinese voters, majority of them will support DAP and all political parties friendly to it. Why? The answer lies in the belief among the Chinese voters that a Pakatan Government led by PKR, DAP and PAS will make major changes to the present environment of Malaysia.

However, the big question that lies ahead is what kind of changes will PKR, DAP and PAS introduce? Here is where the nightmare begins. There is nothing concrete spelt out by the three. The public, the voters especially, should know this very well.

When the three parties won the majority in the States of Selangor, Perak, Penang and Kedah they had no plans whatsoever to develop the States. After four years since 2008, the situation in Selangor, Penang and Kedah remained as they were in 2008 or has deteriorated as in the case of Selangor where the PKR-led State Government made a lot of mess.

Both traditional and new media are littered with stories of how the Selangor State Government's administration brought about confusion to the people through unkept promises and practicing of cronyism.

Despite the mess, some analysts were of the opinion that majority of the Chinese voters in Selangor would continue to support DAP, PKR and PAS. The support is largely due to the belief that DAP would bring about Chinese supremacy into Federal politics and they would be a forced to be reckoned with. Never mind the fact that the Prime Minister's post will still be held by a Malay, but the Chinese No 2 will be equally powerful if not more powerful and influential than the Prime Minister. They saw it happened in Perak when Nizar was made the Menteri Besar but it was the two cousins Nga and Ngeh who called the shots.
Perhaps, they should realize that such an arrangement was fatal as the Malays cannot tolerate the fact that the Menteri Besar was a toothless tiger and hence, PKR, PAS and DAP controlled Perak State Government toppled.

A pertinent question that need to be asked here is why the majority of the Chinese voters will continue to support DAP and its allies? They actually know that the DAP alone cannot form the Federal Government.

They still need PKR and PAS. Will PKR whose majority of the candidates contesting in the coming general election and PAS allow DAP to dictate the running of this country? No Malays will allow the Government to cancel the special privileges enshrined in the Constitution. Being the huge majority, the Malays will make sure it will not happen.

Another question is what do the majority of the Chinese voters want? Equal opportunities? That is laughable! The Chinese enjoy more opportunities than the other races because they control the economy. They represent the majority in the urban areas. They enjoy all the facilities provided by the Government first before other races and the Malays who are mostly in rural areas. They have higher income than other races and despite all that the Malays do not mind.

The writer put the blame on DAP who have hoodwinked the Chinese voters to believe that big changes, including turning Malaysia into the second Singapore (where the Chinese control both the economy and politics).

The writer hopes that the Chinese voters realized this..the bird in the hand is better than the dozen birds in the bushes.