Zahid Hamidi should be asked to resign (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)

So, yes, we too in the UK were not happy with the system. And we ‘sold out’ the ruling party and ‘toppled’ the government because we were not happy with the system. But no one told us if we are not happy with the system then we can get out of Britain and go live in another country. If they had done that they would have been crucified. They would have been hung upside down from the nearest tree. We would have nailed their balls (or tits) to the wall.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

The first thing that Home Minister Zahid Hamidi did on taking office was to tell Malaysians who are not happy with Malaysia’s political system to leave Malaysia and go live in another country.

If Zahid were a British Cabinet Minister, by now he would have been asked to resign. In the UK you are forced to resign for an even lesser offense than that. And he would have had to resign, no two ways about it. 

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak should, at the very least, demand that Zahid publicly apologise to Malaysians. Forcing him to resign is the correct thing to do but at the very least he must be made to apologise.

Is Najib prepared to demonstrate to Malaysians that he is really serious about his transformation program by doing this? The ball is now in Najib’s court. I would suggest Najib walk the talk and do something about this rather than pretend that this never happened.

Look at the two graphics below. In 2010, 23% of us (yes, me included) voted for Liberal Democratic, an opposition party, because we wanted political reforms. However, because of gerrymandering, our 23% of the popular vote gave us only 57 of the 650 seats.

Now do you know why we wanted political reforms? Even though we won 23% of the popular votes we won only 8.8% of the seats. What a bloody unfair system!

The only silver lining in that dark cloud is that the ruling party, Labour, as well as the main opposition party, Conservative, both did not win enough seats to form the government either.

They needed at least 326 seats to form the government. Labour won only 258 seats while its challenger, Conservative, won 307 seats — both less than the required 326 seats to form the government.

The insult to this injury is that Labour won 39.7% of the seats with 29% of the popular votes while Conservative won 47.2% of the seats with 36.1% of the popular votes. And this also meant that with just 65% of the popular votes (less than two-thirds majority) they could have won 87% of the seats in Parliament (way above two-thirds majority).

What the hell! Bloody unfair, is it not?

Well, we from Lib Dem, the 23% or almost a quarter of the voters, were bloody pissed about this. How can we win 23% of the votes and yet win only 8.8% of the seats while Labour (the government) and Conservative (the main challenger) win only 29% and 36% of the votes respectively and yet win 40% and 47% of the seats each respectively?

Before the election we already knew that we were going to see a hung parliament. We knew that no party was going to win enough seats to form the government. In fact, probably 90% of the British citizens knew this and the media was talking about it every day. Hence no one thought that anyone was going to be able to form the government.

Before the election, Lib Dem said that in the event of a hung parliament it would choose Labour as its partner in a coalition government. But that did not happen for two reasons.

One was that Labour’s 258 seats added to Lib Dem’s 57 would give the coalition only 315 seats, still short of the 326 it required to form the government. Hence Labour plus Lib Dem cannot form the government either. Only by teaming up with Conservative, where the total would now come to 364, could it happen.

Secondly, Labour promised us electoral reforms, which was not good enough, while Conservative promised us political reforms (which would include electoral reforms), which is a better deal.

Hence for two reasons Lib Dem ‘sold out’ Labour, as Malaysians would normally say, and went to bed with Conservative.

Hence also, the Labour government was ‘toppled’, as Umno loves to say, and 59% of the voters controlling 56% of the seats formed the new coalition government.

So, yes, we too in the UK were not happy with the system. And we ‘sold out’ the ruling party and ‘toppled’ the government because we were not happy with the system. But no one told us if we are not happy with the system then we can get out of Britain and go live in another country. If they had done that they would have been crucified. They would have been hung upside down from the nearest tree. We would have nailed their balls (or tits) to the wall.

And what was it that Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said? Ah, yes, Malaysia is a country with a first world infrastructure but a third world mentality. How true!

Zahid Hamidi, apologise! Najib Razak, sack him if he refuses to apologise.

 

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再希·哈密迪有必要辭職

是的，我們這些在英國的也對這個系統深感不滿，我們還因此‘出賣’了執政黨和‘推翻’了政府。但從來沒有人敢告訴我們如果對系統感到不滿的話我們大可離開英國到其他國家居住。如果他們膽敢那麽做那他們會被活生生地給宰了。他們將會被倒吊在隨便一棵樹上面，我們也可以把他們的LP（或者是乳頭）切下來釘在牆壁上。

 

原文：Raja Petra Kamarudin

譯文：方宙

 

内政部部長再希·哈密迪Zahib Hamidi上位后所作的第一件事就是叫那些不滿馬來西亞選舉系統的人離開本國到其他地方去生活。

如果再希是個英國内閣成員的話，那現在他已被要求下臺了。在英國，他會因犯了比這還要小的錯誤而被要求下臺，而且他也必須辭職，這是沒有得談的。

首相納吉他最起碼也要要求再希向全馬人民公開道歉。強迫他辭職是件正確的事情，但最少最少他也必須得道歉。

請問納吉他準備好要通過要求再希辭職/道歉來向大馬人民宣示他改革政府的決心了嗎？現在行動權在納吉手裏。我會勸告納吉真正去做他曾答應會做的改革而不是對此事視而不見。

請看看以上的圖表，在2010年，我們有23%（是的，連我在内）都因要看到政治改革而投給了反對黨之一的自由民主黨。無論如何，因爲選民分佈不均（gerrymendering)的問題，我們23%的選票只換來了650個囯席中的57個。

你現在知道爲什麽我們要政治改革了沒？我們贏得了23%的選票，但是只掌控了8.8%的議席。真他媽個不公平的系統！

在這一片黑暗中的唯一曙光就是執政黨工黨和最大在野黨保守黨都沒有贏得足夠的議席來組織政府。他們需要至少326席，但工黨只贏得了258席而它的挑戰者保守黨則是307；他們雙雙都沒有達到最低所需的席位數。

最往傷口上撒鹽的就是，工黨以29%的選票贏得了39.7%的議席而保守黨以36.1%的選票贏得了47.2%的席位。這也表示，他們只需以65%的選票（少過2/3）就能夠奪得87%的國會議席（多過2/3）。

我靠！真他媽的不公平，對嗎？

我們這些23%的自由民主黨的支持者真的都給惹火了。我們怎麽有可能以23%的選票來換得8.8%的議席，而工黨（執政黨）和保守黨（最大反對黨）只是以29%和36%的選票就能分別奪得40%和47%的席位呢？

大選之前我們已知道我們將會看到一個懸吊的國會，我們知道沒有單獨一個政黨會贏得足夠的議席來組織政府。事實上，至少有90%的英國人民都知道這一點而媒體也天天在談論。所以根本就沒有人會相信會有異軍突起來獨食這個國會。

大選之前，自由民主黨也站出來開說了，如果懸吊國會真的發生了，那他們就會和工黨組織聯合政府。但這到最後因兩個原因而沒有發生。

第一，單凴工黨的258席和自由民主黨的57席，我們還是沒有326席來組織政府。只有和保守黨的307席聯合在一起，我們才能以364席來組織新政府。

第二，工黨只是答應我們會做出選舉改革，但這對我們來講是不夠的。另一方面，保守黨則是答應我們政治改革（這包括選舉改革），這明顯的是個更好的選擇。

自由民主黨以這兩個原因‘出賣’（馬來西亞人會經常用到這個詞）了工黨而同保守黨一同上床。所以說，工黨政府被‘推翻’（巫統很喜歡用這個詞）了，而59%的選民通過他們控制的56%議席組織新的聯合政府。

是的，我們這些在英國的也對這個系統深感不滿，我們還因此‘出賣’了執政黨和‘推翻’了政府。但從來沒有人敢告訴我們如果對系統感到不滿的話我們大可離開英國到其他國家居住。如果他們膽敢那麽做那他們會被活生生地給宰了。他們將會被倒吊在隨便一棵樹上面，我們也可以把他們的LP（或者是乳頭）釘在牆壁上。

前首相敦阿都拉講過了什麽來著？啊，對了，馬來西亞擁有先進囯的設備但只有落後囯的思想。真被他講中了！

再希哈密迪，道歉！納吉，如果他不道歉就把他給辭掉！