TWELVE million Malaysians voted during the 14th General Election. Thousands of man-hours were spent gathering data and analysing them, and barrels of saliva were dispensed during discussions, talks and ceramah by politicians and their supporters. The voters were informed of manifestos, objectives and plans of the political parties and coalitions. There was much information that voters could chew on before making their decisions.Today, we have a new government voted in by only 222 men and women (some of whom were astonishingly fickle-minded), presumably on behalf of the 12 million voters. This only goes to show that our democratic system has deficiencies that can be easily taken advantage of.
Millions of Malaysian people vote once every five years for their government of choice. But the government can change hands as and when a few members of Parliament decide to change allegiance for whatever reasons.
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