Video clip of woman's emotional plea to Penang govt surfaces on social media


PETALING JAYA: A video about a woman's emotional plea to the Penang government is making its round on social media.

The 3.16min video in Mandarin with English subtitles starts off with a woman in her late 20s asking: "Penang, would you hear my story?"

The woman, a senior executive, questioned whether she had made the right decision in voting for the Opposition during the last two general elections.

"I believed I was making a difference," she says in the video.

She then goes on to voice her dissatisfaction with the state government, saying that Penang has not become the place that the state government promised it would to be.

She also laments the rising cost of living, over-development, frequent flooding, illegal factories and the undersea tunnel controversy.

"You ignored the mainland and focused mainly on the island," she says, calling the state government unfair.

The woman adds that despite being in her late 20s, she is unable to provide for her mother and wonders whether it is her fault for not working hard enough.

Looking back at headlines of controversies in Penang over the past year, she asks herself what has gone wrong.

"Have I not voted? Did I make the wrong decision?" she says.

"You may think that the Penang people are well off, but the truth is most of us are not," she says at the end of the video.

It is uncertain when the video was taken or who filmed it.

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