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ManOnTheStreet: Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, as the top technocrat in the ministry, please take some proactive steps to make it a safe state election.
If the elections have to be held, insist that the Election Commission (EC) do the following:
- Spread balloting of votes over a few days to avoid overcrowding
- Set up more voting centres
- Do not allow large political ceramah (rallies). Make the candidates use TV and social media instead.
- Ban house-to-house visits by those campaigning
- Disallow federal and out-of-state politicians from coming to Malacca
Just use simple common sense to make voting safer. The reason Covid-19 cases spread when the Sabah elections were held last year was because:
- There was free flow of politicians from the peninsula to Sabah
- Unrestricted, large, crowded ceramah and house visits
- Failure to impose sufficient quarantine on those returning from Sabah
Apa Harapan: Having the Malacca state election is not a bad idea. Let the people decide without physical campaigning. Many countries have done it.
Malacca voters will choose wisely knowing who have betrayed democracy. Put an end to all political frogs.
Avisa: Noor Hisham, we are almost nearing 90 percent vaccination rate. When Sabah had its election, we had no vaccination and you still agreed to have the election. So, what's the problem now?
Canada, Singapore, South Korea and the United States have held their elections during the pandemic. We should be able to have the election but with all the SOPs followed.
Newday: Yes, we have come a long way in our Covid knowledge and SOPs since Sabah.
At the time, every wannabe politician and their aides descended on the state in droves from everywhere in Malaysia. They were even allowed not to quarantine after they returned to the peninsula.
This is a state election on the peninsula and a small state at that. Our vaccination rates are now very high, which was not the case during the Sabah election.
We are already allowing stadiums to be filled with people and mosques back at full capacity. Schools have also reopened.
But keep all federal politicians from all sides physically away from this. Make it truly a state election.
Quigonbond: It'll be interesting to find out exactly why the four state assemblypersons defected.
Unfortunately, they did not bring their political A-game to the table. Don’t they know who they are dealing with? A hardcore Umno governor.
Do you think he's going to play nice and fair, counting on someone else having confidence of a majority of assemblypersons when that will mean flipping the state administration to Pakatan Harapan?
It's also rich that Harapan comes out later and says they don't favour a state election. Surely the chance of a state election is high and is one of the anticipated outcomes.
The EC should also have seen this coming too. If there is an explosion of Covid cases after the state elections, blood is on their hands for failing to initiate voting reform by allowing people to vote remotely and securely.
RedWolf4463: “The political crisis in Malacca needs to be resolved in accordance with the Malacca State Constitution and the Federal Constitution while taking into account the people’s interests.”
Get out of here, Home Minister and Bersatu secretary-general Hamzah Zainudin.
When you want to topple the Harapan federal government, you use the backdoor way of statutory declarations (SDs) without having to go through a vote in Parliament or an election.
When Umno toppled then prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin, they used SDs. When the Perak Harapan government was toppled in 2009, they used SDs.
But when there is an impending change of government in Malacca, you dissolve the state assembly to make way for elections.
Malaysia Bharu: The desecration of the political system is a Malaysian affair that seems to have a disproportionate amount of dishonest and unprincipled politicians who sell their souls to the highest bidder.
We have seen the worst of politics and politicians following Harapan's 2018 general election victory and this Malaccan shenanigan will not be the last.
In fact, this will be the political tendency of the future as long as political coups remain an accepted norm to overthrow an elected government
This politics will also continue in the future when blind and gullible “siege mentality” voters are resigned to vote based on race and religion rather than the candidate's competency and for the country's progress.
The country will be held to ransom by rogue politicians as race and religion remain the mainstay of the nation's philosophy and ideology.
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