‘Najib will cling to power until overthrown’
A caretaker of the government is not a ‘caretaker government’ and as such the Najib-regime cannot ‘re-appoint’ themselves to the seat.
There were many past leaders and regimes in many countries, who refused to back down to the wishes of the people’s power and who were eventually overthrown. Many were ousted in violent ways by their own people.
Awang Abdillah, Free Malaysia Today
In a democratic system, people’s power is the ultimate political power in the country. And this is exercised through the general election.
However when the ‘people’s power’ is hijacked during an election and a government is elected through undemocratic and unlawful means or if a government is practising bad governance and abuses its power, then it is deemed necessary for the rise of people power in the open to correct all these abuses.
The duty of Bersih being a non-political association of NGOs, is to demand for the return of the people’s democratic rights through electoral and political reforms before the general election, failing which it will rally for the people’s power to pressure the incumbent government to step down voluntarily or through force.
Under threats from the people’s power, there are four options for the Najib regime:
i) Direct the Election Commission (EC) to cleanse and overhaul the grossly fraudulent electrol roll
ii) Najib Tun Razak takes responsibility and resigns as the Prime Minister
iii) The whole cabinet takes responsibility and resigns en bloc and a new government appointed before the 13th general election (GE) to direct the EC to do the cleansing of the grossly tainted electoral roll
iv) Proceeds to dissolve parliament and calls for GE without executing the electoral reforms first as demanded
There were many past leaders and regimes in many countries, who refused to back down to the wishes of the people’s power and who were eventually overthrown. Many were ousted in violent ways by their own people.
We hope the Najib regime will not repeat the same mistakes committed by his peers.
Najib in cohorts with EC
However Najib, like a true despotic leader, will cling to power until he is overthrown.
So, he is most likely to choose to dissolve the parliament to pave the way for the 13 GE.
However before he agrees to dissolve the parliament he conspires with the EC to manipulate the electoral roll to his advantage.
The Najib regime and the EC work hand-in-glove to rig the electoral rolls by giving foreigners fake identity cards and creating phantom postal voters.
Both of these involve hundreds of thousands of voters to shore up support for Umno in the 13 GE.
Also the EC will delete the names of voters from the opposition strongholds without their consent and permission, and plans to cheat during the process of vote counting later.
The EC officers and election workers are in fact Umno (in peninsular Malaysia and Sabah) and PBB (Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu) people (in Sarawak).
The moment Najib announces the dissolution of the parliament with the grossly fraudulent electoral roll intact, his government no longer exists.
The authority that exists during that period is only the ‘caretaker of the government’ and not the caretaker government.
Hence the former government cannot appoint itself automatically to be the caretaker of the government.
