The peole should be split for the betterment of the country?

I attended a political forum last night organized by the See Hua Daily news and the United Chinese Association. One of the speakers, Mr. Wong Chin Huat, a political activist, put across a very interesting view on how to serve the rakyat best, i.e. divided political parties and leaders serves the rakyat best.

His contention was backed by the political history of Malaysia from the 90s to post-308. Many were taken by his unconventional view but accepted his analysis. He stressed that during the 1990 general election, Umno was divided and suffered big set back while the MCA won handsomely because the Chinese thought they should not "hijack" the BN during UMNO's worst division but that did not do well for the Chinese community as UMNO became more radical and many Chinese interests were compromised in order for UMNO to regain its Malays' support. So the Malays gained while the Chinese suffered when the Malays were divided but the Chinese were united. That he says showed that the rakyat "gain" only when the political parties and politicians are divided.

If his political view is correct, his view that if the none bumis give 70-85 % support to the opposition and if 40% of the bumi were split from BN, then the Pakatan Rakyat would secure 106 out of the 165 parliamentary seats in west Malaysia and Sarawak and Sabah only need to give 9 more seats to the Pakatan Rakyat for it to enjoy the simple majority in the Parliament to rule.

But he stresses that if the Rule of Law is not observe, then the Perak's incident would be repeated because UMNO could seek to disregard the mandate of the people as it regards itself as the representative of the malays. He jokes that that is why he still wear black in defiance of the BN's coup in Perak.

I would have to agree that the BN has and will always call on the people to "unite" under it wings and threaten the people of the consequence of a divided UMNO or divided MCA or the divided SUPP. But as history has shown us, the more divided the politicians and political parties are, the more the people will gain/benefit as all will sought the support of the people as they will realize that they can't take the people for granted.

To support Mr. Wong Chin Huat's view, I would say that the check and balance in the political equation is the key to safe guard the interests of the rakyat and only with a 2-party or division of power would the check and balance be secured.

The Sarawak people should know that the SUPP has all these years threaten the Chinese community about the division of power which is actually to the contrary of the actual state of thing. The proof can be seen from the 1987 Ming court's affair that led to a snap election and while the Bumi votes were divided with the Permas winning 20 out of the 48 state seats and the balance of power hanging on the SUPP. What did the SUPP did with the Chinese community going behind them 100%? They did not bargain for the Chinese community but rather a few of its leaders sold off the support from the Chinese community in return for their own "interests". Issues such as the land issues, the mother tongue education, unfair allocation of government projects and intake of the Chinese in the state's departments and the oil and gas royalty should be on the bargaining table with the PBB but they were all forgotten and remained the central issues/ thorn in the fresh of the majority of the Chinese community.

I hope the above can bring awareness to the people, be them the Chinese, the Ibans, the Bidayuhs, the Penans or the Melanaus. The people should know how to capitalize or utilize the political parties to their interests and not let the political parties abuse and cone them into believing that a divided among the support would undermine the stability or security of the people and society.

My 2 sen worth but could it also be the "million ringgit answer" to the democracy of Malaysia? Let discuss further.