Banners flying high

MANY popular spots throughout Malaysia were swarmed with banners and flags of political parties during the campaigning for GE13. Japan’s election campaigns follow a set pattern in which candidates’ posters are hung on fences or posted on wooden notice boards erected on the streets.

There are no buntings, flags and banners adorning roads, utility poles, fences or tree trunks. As the election candidate addresses the public through a loud-hailer at a street corner, his or her entourage distributes flyers and carry nobori displaying slogans.